At 10/16/23 03:26 AM, Mich wrote:

At 10/14/23 06:53 AM, chenjoy wrote: I wonder how has this place survived since 1999 lol

Not being run (or eventually bought out) by bigcorp trying to squeeze every last penny out of it as fast as possible might have something to do with it. It's definitely a rare thing on the internet for a place to hang out not to entirely enshittify.

At 10/25/23 11:23 PM, ADR3-N wrote: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/spotify-to-potentially-eliminate-royalties-for-lowest-streamed-tracks/

TLDR: Spotify plans to implement a minimum annual stream requirement before it pays royalties to independent artists. OOF.

Supposedly, this is to combat botting, AI generated music, and people making 30 second low effort trash on a playlist to generate revenue, but it's admitted that this push came from labels, who think they aren't getting enough royalties out of DSPs like Spotify already.

Does anyone else think this is a freaking joke? What alternatives do we have to Spotify these days, since Spotify makes up the majority of the DSP market in terms of royalties actually paid to independents?

At 10/25/23 11:47 PM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 10/25/23 11:38 PM, Tapestoppa wrote: I recently saw that! Theres apple music, amazon music, juno download. few I can list from the top of my head

I have apple music already, as well as amazon. They pay royalties as far as I know. Juno download I've never heard of.

The folks I chat with on Twitter/X champion Audiomack. Have you heard of that?

At 10/13/23 05:29 AM, Mich wrote:

At 10/12/23 04:27 PM, Sequenced wrote: bruh

im 30

this is stupid

rip audio forum

Yo happy birthday!

im 32 and a half

At 10/13/23 01:24 AM, ADR3-N wrote: What is everyone working on? I've just been mindlessly growing on Twitter, plugging some commissions, and working on a cymbal sample library.

I closed my twitter account a few months back after having it sat disused pretty much since the muskrat took over, I'm one of those mastodon people now apparently. (It's quite nice, tbh).

I haven't really touched making music in quite a while. I got really sucked into home automation (Home Assistant, ESPHome, that kinda thing) and I'm endlessly setting up new lil' gizmos, designing small bits of electronics to do stuff automatically, hacking wifi control into infrared-remote-controlled things and that.

One day I'll got back to making synth-related bits (and maybe even actually making music)

At 10/25/23 11:23 PM, ADR3-N wrote: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/spotify-to-potentially-eliminate-royalties-for-lowest-streamed-tracks/

TLDR: Spotify plans to implement a minimum annual stream requirement before it pays royalties to independent artists. OOF.

Supposedly, this is to combat botting, AI generated music, and people making 30 second low effort trash on a playlist to generate revenue, but it's admitted that this push came from labels, who think they aren't getting enough royalties out of DSPs like Spotify already.

Does anyone else think this is a freaking joke? What alternatives do we have to Spotify these days, since Spotify makes up the majority of the DSP market in terms of royalties actually paid to independents?

At 10/25/23 11:23 PM, ADR3-N wrote: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/spotify-to-potentially-eliminate-royalties-for-lowest-streamed-tracks/

TLDR: Spotify plans to implement a minimum annual stream requirement before it pays royalties to independent artists. OOF.

Supposedly, this is to combat botting, AI generated music, and people making 30 second low effort trash on a playlist to generate revenue, but it's admitted that this push came from labels, who think they aren't getting enough royalties out of DSPs like Spotify already.

Does anyone else think this is a freaking joke? What alternatives do we have to Spotify these days, since Spotify makes up the majority of the DSP market in terms of royalties actually paid to independents?

At 10/27/23 07:19 AM, Mich wrote:

At 10/26/23 11:57 AM, Sequenced wrote: remember that time i went to your house

why did you invite over an underage teenager u creep

I feel like that was before I even actually lived in the UK, would've been partner's parents' house. 2010 or something?

i was just in amsterdam for ade

my music is world wide now

That's pretty sweet, dang. What name do you release music under nowadays?

At 10/26/23 03:02 PM, SoulSecure wrote: I've compiled an album, I'm just waiting on cover art. We found out recently that my Dad has stage 4 cancer and they gave him a few months. I'm still on the worship team at my Church and I lead worship for a home group and for a children's ministry. Still work as a mechanic just at a different shop.

My circumstances aren't always good, but Jesus Christ is always good and because I've been born again in Him, I have a joy that passes beyond my circumstances. I'm sad about my Dad and I really want him to get saved so I can see him in Heaven, but I know I'm going to Heaven when I die because of Jesus' shed blood on the cross and His resurrection from the dead.

At 11/13/23 03:53 PM, SoulSecure wrote: My Dad accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. I am confident I will see him again in Glory when this is all over. I thank God my Father that this has happened. I got to share my testimony with him, never thought I'd get to do that.

How's e'body doin' doe? Ive been pretty terrible for the last idk 10 years or so ((minus the last month) (and those 3 weeks in 2019)), but somehow someway found myself a really good job, wrapping up a soulcrushing depression and getting back into music after years of hiatus.

Came back to visit this place since this is where the whole tune-building began for me. Ngl, Newgrounds will always have a lil place in my heart, even if it's mostly nostalgia for when life wasn't complicated. Very cool to still see some old names in here!

At 1/8/24 04:31 PM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/8/24 02:26 PM, la-yinn wrote: Jesus christ the lounge is so dusty I had to find it on the 4th page of the forum, the fuck happened? Oh, what, it's not 2010 anymore? Well, shit.

Everyone is on twitter and other spaces I assume. Plus there is no overarching theme to the thread so dusty tends to happen -- you have no idea what to talk about!

How's e'body doin' doe? Ive been pretty terrible for the last idk 10 years or so ((minus the last month) (and those 3 weeks in 2019)), but somehow someway found myself a really good job, wrapping up a soulcrushing depression and getting back into music after years of hiatus.

I've been all over the place, but in the last 10 years, I actually started doing music semi-professionally, collabing, promoing and etc. Not that I'm great at it. I actually came back to doing music fulltime this year, after a nasty divorce, military retirement, and leaving an abusive relationship. I'm unemployed, but I'm not having a bad time.

That whole Jamuary thing looks like a cool challenge, feeling like doing some stuff since I got a few weeks off work. Any of the 2008-2012 gang still writing music nowadays?

Yes, I just dropped a video today to my blog since I can't post it here. And I think I got 2 behind that. Busy busy.

I didn't even see the january challenge. I'll have to go check it out!

At 1/8/24 06:40 PM, la-yinn wrote:

At 1/8/24 04:31 PM, ADR3-N wrote:

At 1/8/24 02:26 PM, la-yinn wrote: Jesus christ the lounge is so dusty I had to find it on the 4th page of the forum, the fuck happened? Oh, what, it's not 2010 anymore? Well, shit.

Everyone is on twitter and other spaces I assume. Plus there is no overarching theme to the thread so dusty tends to happen -- you have no idea what to talk about!

See, we used to make cock jokes and just spew whatever was on our mind. In a way, this was twitter before twitter was twitter. And now twitter is X and apparantly sucks. I wouldn't know since I don't use it.

How's e'body doin' doe? Ive been pretty terrible for the last idk 10 years or so ((minus the last month) (and those 3 weeks in 2019)), but somehow someway found myself a really good job, wrapping up a soulcrushing depression and getting back into music after years of hiatus.

I've been all over the place, but in the last 10 years, I actually started doing music semi-professionally, collabing, promoing and etc. Not that I'm great at it. I actually came back to doing music fulltime this year, after a nasty divorce, military retirement, and leaving an abusive relationship. I'm unemployed, but I'm not having a bad time.

If you retire from the military in one piece, that's a blessing. Abusive relationships suck energy out of you like a vampire sucks blood, good riddance man!

That whole Jamuary thing looks like a cool challenge, feeling like doing some stuff since I got a few weeks off work. Any of the 2008-2012 gang still writing music nowadays?

Yes, I just dropped a video today to my blog since I can't post it here. And I think I got 2 behind that. Busy busy.

I didn't even see the january challenge. I'll have to go check it out!

Yeah, you should! I'm doing a tune rn, although its pretty hard to get into the workflow since it's been years since i've opened up my DAW. A lot of things bout the whole production thing is like riding a bike, but when you haven't done it for such a long time it's a real pain having to get accustomed to the shortcuts and where everything is etc. I upgraded my license of FL studio to full 2 weeks ago so I do enjoy exploring stuff I've never used before. To be honest, I've really missed making music. Quitting was one of the most shitty things I had to do in my life, since I took this shit to heart and life was so brutal I didn't see a way to really keep at it back in the day. Writer's block ain't always about not finding the right chords, so to speak.

But hey, life's better now. :-)

At 2/24/24 04:24 PM, Karco wrote: New music.

Hi! I'm finally back at it — though I won't be posting what I make to this account, I think. Were we friends back in the day? Do you want to know more? Send a PM, get in touch some other way, and I'll share with you something new. :)