Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

You can use it in 3 ways:
- You can search artists and see alternative platforms those artists are on, where you can better support them

- You can share a Spotify or Apple Music URL to Unstream to quickly get that same info using an Apple Shortcut (great for supporting an artist you’re listening to on your phone!)

- The Mac app serves up those alternative platforms for the artist you’re currently listening to in Spotify or Apple Music, with a (paid, $2.99) feature to save artists for later

I’ve already found it really fun as a way to see just how many artists have pages on Bandcamp and other sites, and a few fellow musicians I’ve shared early versions of the app learned about new platforms they could be on (or were already on without realizing). I hope this is helpful for folks wanting to support artists they love in ways the streaming apps don’t allow, perhaps even move off streaming, or just have fun with it.

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

@kidlightbulbs Very cool. I've never heard of Qobuz, but it sounds enticing since it seems to have a large catalog and it seems to be much nicer to artits?

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

@blainsmith thanks! Yeah, Qobuz has both streaming & download options; they appear to be the only streaming service with transparent artist payout info, and downloads result in ~70% payout to the rights holders based on my research. Not as good as Bandcamp and others, but notable and great for bigger artists who wouldn’t be on an indie platform.

@kidlightbulbs Awesome. The biggest blocker for me was Bandcamp not having more maintstream / popular artists especially ones me kids listen to. Not that TSwift needs more money, but I'd like Lorna Shore and In Flames to get paid better from my listening.

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

@kidlightbulbs This is awesome! I just recently started the same process of buying the music of artists I enjoy and quit my Spotify subscription.
However, I noticed for the artist "Mine" a wrong Bandcamp Link. How does your tool verify for correct links?

@kidlightbulbs This is awesome! I just recently started the same process of buying the music of artists I enjoy and quit my Spotify subscription.
However, I noticed for the artist "Mine" a wrong Bandcamp Link. How does your tool verify for correct links?

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!

It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.

It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.

You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream

#indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #music #streaming

@kidlightbulbs not bad. I tried it and it seems to work quite well.

@dwhatson awesome! thanks for checking it out!!

@kidlightbulbs happy to test it out. Of course, I used myself as I know what platforms my material is on. It did find me on Bandwagon.fm, but not on any other distributed platforms. I know that I'm on every platform that I can get my work on to (Spotify excepted). So there's my feedback. Good work so far though, and I look forward to the android version.

I already have a nice list of features to potentially add to Unstream; I even set up a public Feedback board for you to submit ideas to make the app better.

Check it out, and I hope it helps you consider your streaming subscriptions and the art you want to support!

https://unstream.stream

@kidlightbulbs this is cool! I definitely have some suggestions that I’ll add

@dwhatson thanks. What is your artist name? I can do some troubleshooting and figure out a fix