Music

We need a protocol similar to Farcaster that can serve as home for all the new music being produced worldwide. Imagine all the cool music clients that devs could build. Seems like the only way to truly break free from the monopolistic control exercised by Spotify, YouTube, Apple, and major record labels.

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I think there’s already a few good protocols addressing this (Zora, Sona, Sound etc.) 

Releasing your music onchain means you can stream and purchase on a variety of interfaces with no platform lock in including FutureTape (@fascinated) and Spinamp

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Who is hosting the music though? Does it need to be on a blockchain or can it be a system like hubs?

I think Dan and V know way more than me about this, but im not leaning on either side. Maybe Farcaster will eventually switch from hubs and become it's own chain like Zora + Base. This is the interesting part imo, not whether or not there should be an open protocol for music.

what’s the benefits of hubs do you think?

It sounds good to me but I’m curious if you could run this type of system without creating a new token. If nodes must receive a reward, then maybe you bake that in as a protocol fee that fans and artists pay to join and participate in the network, like what Farcaster is doing.

that’s where audius can shine. audius has good economic incentives to keep content available and hosted by a decentralized network. two server model - metadata server and content server let those scale independently as well. what’s probably missing most are more clients to demonstrate, in the ways farcaster does