#TIBR If you opted-in to The Indie Beat distribution on Bandwagon and still don't see your music on TIBR, here are possible issues:
- it's been less than 10 days since you uploaded (a bunch of this is still done manually)
- your track is longer than 6 minutes (these are getting tagged as "long form" and will eventually get their own channel)
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Through the Kind Generosity and Benevolence of Horace P. Bogardus... er, uh, that is @stefan ... #TheIndieBeat will soon enjoy #webscrobbler support!
Yay!
Today you can join the birth of a new community project:
The Social Music Network
https://the.socialmusic.network
Musicians, developers, and all music lovers collaborating for the common good!
(slogan to be improved)
If you find it empty / ugly / messy, it's fine. Come back in a month. But if you want to be an early adopter, a tester, a contributor, a curious musician... then join now and you won't regret.
(sorry, no image, no logo yet)
The Indie Beat internet radio has a spoken word channel now! Very cool!
https://theindiebeat.fm/spoken-word/
It has been added to the #roku app and is available (along with all other stations) using any of these apps and devices:
https://www.radio-browser.info/users
If you are a #writer and record your words -- you can easily get them on air and heard by uploading to https://bandwagon.fm and tagging with genre "Spoken"
TheIndieBeat.fm now has 2302 tracks available, now including spoken word
Hats off to all the people who've contributed to making TIBR possible. Many hands make light work!
The Indie Beat Update
I'm super happy to share that TheIndieBeat.fm now includes the following with the currently playing track:
- larger album art
- more details about the track
- a link to the artist's profile page
The channel history now also includes a link to the artist with every track.
This was all made possible (and possible a lot faster) by @axwax . Thank you !
If you've uploaded music to Bandwagon in the last couple of weeks and have been waiting for it to show up on The Indie Beat, thank you for your patience!
Things at TIBR got a little backlogged. But it's all caught up now.
We're up to an astonishing 2211 tracks
Will be releasing new genre channels and an enhanced player in the next day or so...
Station update for Not What I Call Radio Bonk Wave!
In the last few weeks we've added new tracks from Bonk Wave contributors:
@ordosmarkzero
@yonder
@james
@dereisenhofer
Key 13
@sknob
@axwax
@defaultmediatransmitter
@pdp8
Listen at https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/
or: https://theindiebeat.fm/not-what-i-call-radio-bonk-wave/
A reminder: any past Bonk Wave contributors can submit tracks here: https://bonkwave.org/board/index.php?topic=148.0 (contributors only)
The new #tibr "now playing" bot is humming along nicely.
I'm happy with the way it looks and works. Go check it out
I'm hoping this can drive some engagement with the artists and enable discovery that tiny bit more.
@musicproduction people you can get your tracks played on air by uploading to Bandwagon, checking the "Distribute to The Indie Beat" box, and tagging your genres.
New The Indie Beat Radio “now playing“ bot by Lime Bar (@limebar)
If you’ve liked listening to any of my NHAM mixtapes you might just like my mix of mixtapes radio channel on The Indie Beat Radio: https://theindiebeat.fm/nham/
It’s just been launched to go alongside some of the other awesome channels on The Indie Beat Radio.
If you hear a song you like you can look them up in the alphabetically ordered list on the same page, click through to the artist and hear more from them.
Every time I release a new mixtape the new songs will be added to the channel.
J’en profite pour signaler que la chaîne principale de The Indie Beat Radio est très bien aussi !
Elle diffuse notamment les albums présents sur https://bandwagon.fm (après consentement des artistes), dont 3 des miens
Bref, mettez tout ça dans vos signets (et désabonnez-vous des gros streamers dégoûtants !)
Ça fait plaisir de passer à nouveau à la radio, surtout depuis la fin de #RadioFreeFedi, et surtout en si bonne compagnie et sur une station aussi classe que…
Not What I Call Radio Bonk Wave!
À écouter là : https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/
Ou sur The Indie Beat Radio là : https://theindiebeat.fm/not-what-i-call-radio-bonk-wave/
Station update for Not What I Call Radio Bonk Wave!
In the last couple of weeks we've added new tracks from Bonk Wave contributors:
@james
@desolationpark
@axwax
@fstateaudio
@ShawnBulen
@defaultmediatransmitter
@FastGhost
@sknob
@yonder
@rybson
@ordosmarkzero
@dereisenhofer
Key 13
And a host of new station idents and silly voices from
@axwax
@james
@sknob
@CCirco
@rybson
Listen at: https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/
or: https://theindiebeat.fm/not-what-i-call-radio-bonk-wave/
This probably needs some editing but I'm not going to get to that today, so here's a thing I wrote about the Bandwagon and Indie Beat Radio integration, taking in a whole lot of other stuff along the way to put it into context as to why I think it stands out as an important step forward.
Calming myself down by listening to fediverse musicians on The Indie Beat Radio #TIBR.
I am hopeful that many past #RadioFreeFedi artists and contributors will consider uploading their music to https://bandwagon.fm and flip the switch so their music shows up on https://theindiebeat.fm
And that listeners will start tuning in.
And, of course, #Roku users will try the app above.
I think both sites have exciting roadmaps.
On that point, I've just been over and made sure I've followed my favourite artists on bandwagon.fm (the source for The Indie Beat's streams). I don't know who it makes a difference to if anyone, but once @helenbellmusic (among others) releases music over there, I want to know about it!
#tibr #TheIndieBeat #bandwagon