Banning of certain music released for Facebook, Tik Tok and Instagram

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So there is a chance for you? HAHA! I kid.

Nothing but respect for you sir.
I wrote a tune right after the first iPhone came out called: Cell Phones Make You Stupid. It was prophetic. I didn’t get my first cell until 2008 because I needed one to go on tour.
 
Ha! Yeah but it's also the connection hub for family and business. If you friended me there, you will never see anything about politics. I will not allow it on my page.

I bullshit about that here! Lol!

I would friend you in the same way I would any other friend, business partner, or family. With respect and only for positive outcomes.

FB to me is not a place to fight..
FB?? What’s that?
 
I am listening to "Relaxing Beach Sounds" on Spotify right now. Like most enforcement I am guessing it is a bit random?
I have just opened a track called 'Ambient Sleep 2024'
 
Spotify is fine it’s Facebook and instagram and other meta platforms that have closed the book.
 
Just to follow-up on my recent FB experience, I posted a link to a SoundCloud track (one posted here recently) in that same group where a direct video upload seemed to get stalled, and it got posted pretty quickly - no blockage or anything. And, it was a cover of something with an original copyright of 1986 (though my searching only found an actual [copyright] record for the entire album, and none for the individual song). Maybe things are a little different in the UK?
 
It just seems to be meta hosts who have changed the rules. Spotify and Apple Music seem fine with it. Youtube and Spotify are even happy with pink noise and whale song! I cannot check with distrokid because I'm still banned (even though they are collecting Tok Tok revenue from my music, but that's a different story)
 
I released another track with lots of strings via songtradr, and selected easy listening instead of classical, but it got rejected. Facebook, tic tok and instagram again. I wonder if its AI or a human spotting them?
 
Garrison KeilerMy stuff is mainly music for video, so i guess i cannot call it film music any more or, music based on old public domain classical stuff. So maybe real instrument or synth versions of old music? Occasional reworks of pop songs, so think a fast tune, changed to a slow one, with no vocals, just an instrument. Music that you would fall asleep to, or is used as walk on music for live shows. One was used regularly by the original artist, and we had a 50/50 split of the royalties. This is still used sometimes by a well know Brit artist as walkon music, generating a bit of money. Shazzam reports my worldwide best searched for piece of music is amazingly a pice of French music written by Debussy! Always at the top in ridiculous countries.

None of this stuff is submittable to the three systems involved here. It is not clear if they are taking down old stuff, but you cannot submit new material. Maybe its just difficult for their recognition system? So they get lots of complaints? I suppose a zillion happy birthday to you recordings would be a problem, but just recently I've had more rejections than before. Songtradr, who i use most, did not get one piece of music onto spotify and youtube? Never had that before. It was a rework of a Beatles tune. I put the same thing through another, added lennon and mccartney as writers, as usual and it seems to have worked? However, i might have accidentally mentioned i have a licence for US distribution? Her in the UK you do NOT need a licence for streaming services, but you do for download. Companies like Harry Fox are essential for US download, but not easy to get for an individual in the UK, as they have lots of US tax compliance rules, so an address in the US seems essential.

Its a minefield now. I have no idea how the big record companies get this stuff available. Its also wierd when my Alexa cannot play me my music on spotify. I can listen to it on spotify, but not via the alexa system. Somehow, my catalogue is not there. Well, actually a few are, but maybe five or six out of hundreds of tracks.
I have 14 albums. It looks like older albums in NEW AGE are ok and findable. But I call them CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL when I have to choose a genre at cd baby. For those asking the reasons, I was told that the BOTS cannot recognize or distinguish between music without defining character. The old joke Garrison Keilor told was "what do you call New Age music played backwards .......... new age music?. As concerning using loops and samples I found it interesting that META doesn't go after Rap or Hip Hop. Probably because they are too powerful. Somebody from Billboard Magazine interviewed me about this thinking it may have legal implications. I didn't follow up so don't know if anything came of the article
 
There is talk now on facebook about people having trouble with music actually purchased legitimately. Where people source loops, effects and tracks labelled as copyright free, but you pay a small royalty tonuse them for ‘anything’. These get used in new recordings, recognised as being in a different release and you are stuck. It is not the originator of the track/clip, it is the first release that uses them. Another person uses them and gets a copyright flag! This is going to get messy. Every wrong shazzam actually means somewhere there may be another track use the same source. This is going to become messy. With classical music being largely based on public domain material played by contemporary musicians, distributing tiny royalties can be a major problem i guess. Beethovens famous di di di dah four notes must exist thousands of different times? AI isnt clever enough to separate them, so just ban the music.
 
My solution is to never go on any of these sites. Fuck Facebook and the shitstorm it rode in on.
 
Same goes for Spotify.
Liz Pelly wrote a book about it “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.”

Spotify lets external companies create AI-made music, and puts this into their editorial playlists as it were real artists...
Why the real artists don't get a chance to get into these playlists.
A way of not having to pay artists and getting richer, while listeners don't even know or apparently care, because the majority still keeps listening to it.
 
Yep. All BIG social media is a problem, in my view. It's a fn cancer on our society.

There's much more reasons to make the switch from Meta/X and other corporate platforms to the free open-source Fediverse.

My problem with Meta: mostly, my friends posts do not show up in my feed and after a year I go to their profile and see that they posted some stuff... they then think I've been ignoring them all the time, but that's because the feed is not shown chronologically.

IG and FB decide what content is shown, based on dodgy algorithms.
But there’s a solution at the end of my rant.

It has long been known that Meta manipulates the behaviour of their users and made them believe they have the freedom to post their opinion and are really connected to each other. But the opposite is true.

The lack of moderation on hate speech, algorithms that prioritize controversial discriminatory content (racism, LGBTQI-phobia,…), in order to get more outrage engagement leading to a wider spread of bad ideas. Invisible shadow banning censorship, echo chambers, reducing people’s reach, dividing people, pitting them against each other and so on.
The opposite of how a harmonious society should be.

More irritations: saturation of commercial advertisements in the feed, privacy issues, tiktokification by rewarding superficial video reels above quality photography. Half your feed full of fake AI posts to waste your time. And above all: you are the product, people don’t realize their private data is being sold and you don’t get a single penny.

You could stay indifferent and continue supporting all these things above… or you can be part of the SOLUTIONS BELOW!

Switch from the Metaverse and X to the Fediverse.

There’s free alternative platforms, community driven, no algorithmic manipulations, no ads, real privacy and data control, open-source, decentralized, no billionaires involved.
More authenticity, less social pressure.

Imagine we all make a move towards ethical technology and free ourselves from corporate surveillance. Think about apps like Bluesky, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and many more!
Wouldn't it be cool if we all moved there?

If we all slowly make the transition, as from next week? Or let us just try for a month and see what happens if Meta suddenly loses their grip on all of us? You don’t have to close your accounts, yet.
What’s your opinion about this? Would you do it?


I noticed Pixelfed is quite dead... However I found a few local people from my region shooting alternative photography... which I probably could find via IG aswel.

And as every start from zero, I'm thinking about uploading a bunch of my fav older photos over there too. But that takes time aswel.

While on IG (or TikTok of FB videos), there's too much fear of missing out, you get triggered to watch people's stories or short vids that are way too addictive, you open one and keep watching 10 others, wasting too much time and it's not good for your focus and concentration.

The fact that Pixelfed is still boring at the moment, is maybe better for the mental health. It won't keep your focus on it for that long.
But yeah, none of my friends is there (yet), but I'm always willing to learn to know new people to widen my horizon. Perhaps I should give it a bit time.

I'm currently taking a break this Februari on IG and others, see what the alternatives do instead on my daily habits.


What alternatives do you people use?
 
Never heard of most of those. Do they have music content?
 
Never heard of most of those. Do they have music content?

Yes, for music there is the Funk Whale platform:


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However, there's not much going on there, there's no mainstream music, unless people put mainstream music on their (if it's rights free), you can put your own on it, but you won't get paid.
It's like putting it in a library.... you can make channels or playlists I think, and then you can also link that music elsewhere, or to your social platforms so others can listen.

Last week, I managed to upload one song to the FunkWhale app, just to test how it all works.
 
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