Bitsforbeats.com - Calling All Artists!

[redrip]

Hey Peeps,

Starting a new site for Artists by Artists called Bits for Beats. Point of the site is for any Bitcoin savvy artists wanting to, can have their music on the site (soundcloud links for now) and have their BTC Donation address tacked on to their track as well as a link to either their Soundcloud page or their artist website. As an artist myself, I think it's a good way for Bitcoin friendly artists and music fans in general to browse a growing collection of music and for possible donations to the artists if listeners like a specific tune. The site is very simple for now, wanted to keep it basic so the focus is on the music, tracks and artists. Any thoughts?

I spoke with a lot of people, most like the basic design of the site and its easy to read on mobile as well, but wanted to see what you guys thought of this and if you also had any suggestions. I'm not the best HTML person in the world, but any suggestions for features or anything, always open to hear them. Thanks!

http://bitsforbeats.com/

Artist Submissions:
Include Soundcloud link
Artist Name
Website
Bitcoin receive address for donations.

Email the above info to: bitsforbeatscom@gmail.com

[S4VV4S]

Isn't the first track a NeYo song?

Btw, nice touch.
Good for promoting new artists!

[amspir]

Just a suggestion:  It would be nice if there was a better interface to show the bitcoin.   Perhaps a btc URI link, or use the code at blockchain.info that displays a pop-up window with the QR code for an address.  (look up an address on blockchain.info, then click the donate button that will show the code you need)

[btbrae]

Who did that "Magic Internet Money" picture?  It's great.

You're going to have the problem of people using other's music in order to attract donations somewhat anonymously, so you will want comments near to the donation address so any offenders can be called out and people can read what others are saying before they donate. But donations for good music is a good concept, so best of luck with it.

[redrip]

Just a suggestion:  It would be nice if there was a better interface to show the bitcoin.   Perhaps a btc URI link, or use the code at blockchain.info that displays a pop-up window with the QR code for an address.  (look up an address on blockchain.info, then click the donate button that will show the code you need)

Yea that is a great idea. Not sure exactly how to do that on the html front but will look into it.

[redrip]

Who did that "Magic Internet Money" picture?  It's great.

You're going to have the problem of people using other's music in order to attract donations somewhat anonymously, so you will want comments near to the donation address so any offenders can be called out and people can read what others are saying before they donate. But donations for good music is a good concept, so best of luck with it.

The Magic Internet Money picture is from Reddit /r/Bitcoin - Sometimes its displayed on the front page, pretty awesome logo, so we decided to link it over to the Bitcoin Reddit as well.

As for the anon artist posts, well we were hoping that anyone uploading tracks to Soundcloud should be aware Soundcloud makes them sign something saying that they are the original copyright owners of the music, I see what your saying though. As for submissions, so far people have been emailing us, we visit their Soundcloud page and look it over to make sure. I don't think this sort of thing would happen very often, but its definitely possible. I think a comment space beneath would be awesome, just not the best at html, so not sure how to go about that.