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 Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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I'm honestly curious, because I'm at a loss to explain why a myspace page makes any sense. I'd love to read about it. But where is the link?
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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| Yeah but it's a valuable resource for conducting scientific, accurate polling of independent artists and other music industry types. |
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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All the social networking stuff moved to facebook, but facebook's band page capability is complete poo.
What I've found to be a really good (completely free) alternative is to use Blogger to host my page, use dropbox to host my audio files & images, and the facebook plugin to handle comments, likes & social networking aspect.
I'm really surprised that I haven't seen any high profile / up n' coming type bands using this approach. Blogger's template system is really among the most flexible (and non-hacky) I've ever seen ... you could really put up a nice site with it and not necessarily in the blog genre.
My site is here: http://www.hicox.com.
For me, it really is a blog ... just random crap that I happen to be working with at any given time, that I thought was kinda neat. But it's not hard to see how you could extend the approach to make something serious out of it.
Just some food for thought there. |
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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| plurgid wrote: | All the social networking stuff moved to facebook, but facebook's band page capability is complete poo.
What I've found to be a really good (completely free) alternative is to use Blogger to host my page, use dropbox to host my audio files & images, and the facebook plugin to handle comments, likes & social networking aspect.
I'm really surprised that I haven't seen any high profile / up n' coming type bands using this approach. Blogger's template system is really among the most flexible (and non-hacky) I've ever seen ... you could really put up a nice site with it and not necessarily in the blog genre.
My site is here: http://www.hicox.com.
For me, it really is a blog ... just random crap that I happen to be working with at any given time, that I thought was kinda neat. But it's not hard to see how you could extend the approach to make something serious out of it.
Just some food for thought there. |
Looks good! I take a similar approach, using Wordpress to host the page, and Soundcloud to handle the audio. I don't think I've got it down as well as you have, though.
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:44 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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| plurgid wrote: | All the social networking stuff moved to facebook, but facebook's band page capability is complete poo.
What I've found to be a really good (completely free) alternative is to use Blogger to host my page, use dropbox to host my audio files & images, and the facebook plugin to handle comments, likes & social networking aspect. |
What does the Facebook artist page not offer that those other services do? FB can host your audio/video/pics.
I personally LOVE the way that FB handles artist pages. They have set it up to where fans almost have to come to you organically. The FB interface discourages the kind of random spam bullshit that sent Myspace down the tubes to begin with. I feel like FB's artist facilities are worlds better than Myspace ever was.
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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[quote="subatomic pieces"] | plurgid wrote: |
What does the Facebook artist page not offer that those other services do? FB can host your audio/video/pics.
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Granted, it's been about 6 months or so since I really gave the facebook band page thing a ago, so it may have improved. I found the interface, and most of all, the lack of a publicly accessible URL to be maddening.
I also disliked the fact that you have zero ability to customize your band page graphically. Granted, the complete lack of glittery, sparkling animated gifs and auto-playing low-res mp3's and midi files is what has made facebook a success for regular users. For bands and music stuff though ... I find the standard hospital blue & white theme to be a bit ... sterile, I guess. I understand the reasoning for it, though.
I DO like the way that facebook handles the social networking stuff, I'll agree it's a billion times better than the myspace spam engine.
Which really, is why the facebook social plugin is complete genius on the part of facebook. It allows you to plug any site you want right into facebook, really as if it were a page on facebook itself.
Except I could say "go to hicox.com" instead of "go search for plurgid on facebook" (which you can do, if you want to see my frustrated efforts at building a music page there). |
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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| subatomic pieces wrote: | | If not, next stop is YouTube. |
Fun fact: behind Google, YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world.
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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Cool! I didn't know about the URL thing. That's a huge improvement.
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And, the lack of customization features is a pretty obvious benefit to users. In my opinion, customized profiles were another huge contributor to the downfall of MySpace. It slowed everything down DRAMATICALLY.
No band or artist EVER really stood out from the crowd BECAUSE of their MySpace customization. It just cluttered up the site and made it more difficult to get info quickly and easily.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you on either point, btw.
The ability to "customize" on myspace was horribly abused.
That being said, it's possible to be tasteful, and sometimes you don't necessarily want to "stand out" but you do want to control how your content is presented. |
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| Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Why would an artist have a myspace page today... |
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| subatomic pieces wrote: | | plurgid wrote: | All the social networking stuff moved to facebook, but facebook's band page capability is complete poo.
What I've found to be a really good (completely free) alternative is to use Blogger to host my page, use dropbox to host my audio files & images, and the facebook plugin to handle comments, likes & social networking aspect. |
What does the Facebook artist page not offer that those other services do? FB can host your audio/video/pics. |
*cough* Can you Facebook fans playlist Facebook bands and do the bands get paid for the streams? *cough*
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