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- What types of people would be sellers on the site? Would they be artists? Should the artist of the release or track be tied to the seller account? I.E., in order to sell “The Snark” tracks, do I have to be David Michael, who has claimed this Artist? Seems like the answer should be yes 95% of the time, but there are probably some edge cases there.
- A.J.: I developed it so that 1 Seller account is attached to 1 Artist, but we’ll be able to easily change it later so that 1 account can have multiple artists, or that an artist can have multiple accounts, or both.
- David: This is definitely something that needs to be considered, as, especially in dance music, multiple aliases are quite common for those wanting to release tracks in different genres without “clouding” their persona. A house artist wanting to dabble in dubstep would be a good example of this, as the genres are so different. People (DJs) go to a particular artist for a particular type of sound, and when they differ so greatly, you might turn people off.
- BitNotion: genre inexclusive, or dance music specialists?
- David: It seems that this topic would be of utmost importance to try and decide straight-away. On the one hand, it seems like we would be needlessly limiting ourselves by only handling dance records (or EDM/ambient/hip-hop, or whatever combination). However, a number of issues arise by trying to be all-encompassing. For example:
- Sheer size. Are we ready to take on all the indie producers of the world in every genre?
- Genre classification. Genres are a necessary evil in the music world. While genres are being blended, created, and changed all the time, it’s still important to have SOME sort of definition of what the music is, for the sake of both charting and browsing. Trying to take on everything at once would be a daunting task.
- Specialization. Some people (myself included) like to buy from a company who specializes in what it is you are looking for. Granted, the iTunes and Amazon.coms of the world are great at what they do. But, you won’t see an “Amazon” or “Wal-Mart” stage at Detroit Electronic Music Festival… and, if you did, what good would it do? Specialization gets you brand loyalty, but it’s also limiting in some aspects.
- David: It seems that this topic would be of utmost importance to try and decide straight-away. On the one hand, it seems like we would be needlessly limiting ourselves by only handling dance records (or EDM/ambient/hip-hop, or whatever combination). However, a number of issues arise by trying to be all-encompassing. For example:
- Potential legal issues and concerns:
- Validation of track and artist “signed/unsigned” status.
- Music stealing/sharing (do not want BitNotion to be used to allow Joe Schmoe to sell Deadmau5 tracks, nor to replace RapidShare or BitTorrent).
- Royalties (taking into account original artist, vocalist, remixer, promoters, what-have-you).
- Who controls the pricing, and how much freedom is given in its selection? (Single fixed price-point, selectable price-points, custom price-points).
- What methods should be put into place to ensure an effective quality control scenario? More specifically, how can we be fair in our methods of ensuring that our musical catalog is high quality?
