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No Lick Music — Five no copyright tracks every week. Unsplash for music.
I'm talking with artists on a daily basis building the No Lick synth. Musicians realize music distribution is a way to promote yourself, and sadly enough no longer a major sales channel.
Our 2500 early No Lick users ask frequently if the app can be used to produce copyright free music.
1 + 1 = 2. Today marks the start of No Lick music.
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Amrith
Reminds me of the early days of Noon Pacific. Where do you source the music from for now and how do you plan on scaling it @bproost?
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@amrith Looks clean! Discovering new music has been a hobby of mine since childhood. The only thing I changed is: every time I get excited about a new artist I discovered, I check if they licensed their music and if not, I send them an email asking for approval.
Unsplash is a great best practice when it comes to scalability. As soon as the collection is noteworthy I'll turn the site into a searchable library, but I'll never charge for anything. Instead right now there's a 'hire me' button at the bottom of the page (Unsplash is made by Crew, an agency that get most of their leads in through Unsplash). As a matter of fact I've been approached already just now for a new freelance job. Hopefully later, when the hardware synth is here, it would be a great way to boost sales for that.
@amrith @msitver I'm thinking tags would be at least just as important as genres. non-vocal could be a popular tag, but moods like uplifting, or scary could help too. Since originally I make synthesizers, adding samples (e.g. sound effects) is on the roadmap too. It would be quite easy to categorize and filter songs and samples, and suggest similar sounding examples on the go.
Thanks for creating this @bproost - would love to see more of a balance of non-vocal music for use in video and podcasts if at all possible!
@krishnade my pleasure! And unlike many djs I do take requests :) I'll make sure next batch includes non-vocal music as well.
@bproost I've added you to my curations and also my resource list for my digital marketing workshops too!
@nickjnish I've been thinking about that. Now that I fixed a problem from the video creator side, I'd love to think a bit more about the artist side too. After all, they are the generous ones making this all possible.
Amazing Bart, also great music! Will love to make vlogs with these!
Just a thought, I signed up for the mailing list - no double opt in is required there, please be aware that you _need_ to have that privacy wise.
Also, any tracking that happens with download and whatsoever? Couldn't find any privacy policy there. (sorry for the boring talks, but I want to keep this service alive, not killed by lawyers!)
@kees_romkes Good points! I didn't expect so many people to sign up for the newsletter honestly. I'll work on the flow + add double opt-in. Right now all I have running is GA and Hotjar.
I'll make sure the service is 100% legal and will stay that way.
Wow really cool idea! Nowadays it's pretty hard to come by copyright free tracks/ images. Unsplash, Nappy etc are great resources and now this! pretty sweet 👌
@ben_ingignieri Thanks! Signed up to the newsletter on the site already? The email list just crossed the 2000 mark :)
I shoot all kinds of video with a drone and finding open source background music can be a real issue. I appreciate your effort and hope this is a bookmark that never 404s for me :)
@ryanmtaylor Thanks! I'll make sure of that. I promise the closest thing to a 404 it will ever return is a tr-808.
This does exactly what it says it does, well. 5 tracks, every week. They are 5 good tracks as well. The ambition to be the Unsplash of music is bold, but if they get the right people on board, then I'd love to see it happen. The creator community is crying out for something like this. I hope you scale this. Nice work.
Pros:Great idea. Really liked the music. Free.
Cons:For this stage, none.
I think you could be doing so much more with this product. Like the initial idea. I would say invest in building out a series of discovery playlists on Spotify. You would be able to build a really cool network of artists who are up and coming and could leverage that into a service or even a platform.
Lackadaisical. More features need to be implemented for app or it seems something a six year old could have written
Pros:Free 5
Cons:Boring, little use for my purposes
Hi George, thanks for your feedback. I'll make sure as soon as the site has enough content, I'll turn it into a library including genres, tags and filters. I'll add some nifty out of the box discovery features to make up for this ;). For now I was thinking clean and clear was the way to go.
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yes nice to see this project I am also making a software with these types of features you can see the details here on my 4K projector website.
@james_lau Thanks! I'm getting several job offers and No Lick Synthesizer downpayments in, just via the footer of the site. This is definitely sustainable from my side. Hopefully the bigger the website gets, the bigger artists I can feature.
