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Apologies if I may have mentioned some of the stuff below before.
This time, SoundCloud groups.
Do you submit to the groups? If so, which ones - unmoderated, or moderated? Or both?
I tried submitting the odd track to a couple of moderated groups and noticed that when I bought up the list for those tracks to submit them to more groups, the button that says "Added" had returned to "Add To Group", which I assumed meant the tracks had been rejected so I just left the moderated groups and decided not to join anymore. Was I wrong? I did not give the tracks much time to "be accepted" given how many tracks must be submitted, so perhaps the button returns to "Add To Group" UNTIL it has been accepted?
Now, reading up about SoundCloud groups, people suggest ONLY submitting tracks to MODERATED groups, because the quality of standards is higher. So now this has me thinking - is my music just shit? Have I been making shit music and not realising it?
The other thing that adds to this is, upon reading up other articles about SoundCloud, one of the recommendations for boosting your own plays is to pay attention to other people's music and give WORTHWHILE comments, apparently, according to a lot of articles, this is almost a guaranteed method for getting comments back. Now I do this alot, but I do not do it to get comments back. I just do it because I enjoy it. I really listen to other's music, and give between 2-4 sometimes up to 6 solid, lengthy comments, across the time span of a track, which proves I have actually listened. I love doing it. I find it exciting.
What do I get back for it? Next to nothing, with very few exceptions. Usually I am lucky if I even get a "thank you" back. And, as we all know, most of the other comments from people consist of "great" "sick" "amazing song".
What am I missing? Or is my music actually, in fact, crap? I really do wonder sometimes. But then it would be helpful to get constructive feedback. And other times I remind myself that it should not matter, because I enjoy what I do, and that is what matters. But sometimes it would be nice to get more back than just "nice song". Especially since I am doing what all these articles say. Is it just an exciting fairytale, that if you give you will get? Because it seems to work for others.
/rant
Just feel a bit :( about it sometimes. I wish there was a way to NOT see the stats. When I successfully tell myself they don't matter, there they are in front of me bringing me down again lol. What purpose do they really serve anyway other than to boost one's ego?
This time, SoundCloud groups.
Do you submit to the groups? If so, which ones - unmoderated, or moderated? Or both?
I tried submitting the odd track to a couple of moderated groups and noticed that when I bought up the list for those tracks to submit them to more groups, the button that says "Added" had returned to "Add To Group", which I assumed meant the tracks had been rejected so I just left the moderated groups and decided not to join anymore. Was I wrong? I did not give the tracks much time to "be accepted" given how many tracks must be submitted, so perhaps the button returns to "Add To Group" UNTIL it has been accepted?
Now, reading up about SoundCloud groups, people suggest ONLY submitting tracks to MODERATED groups, because the quality of standards is higher. So now this has me thinking - is my music just shit? Have I been making shit music and not realising it?
The other thing that adds to this is, upon reading up other articles about SoundCloud, one of the recommendations for boosting your own plays is to pay attention to other people's music and give WORTHWHILE comments, apparently, according to a lot of articles, this is almost a guaranteed method for getting comments back. Now I do this alot, but I do not do it to get comments back. I just do it because I enjoy it. I really listen to other's music, and give between 2-4 sometimes up to 6 solid, lengthy comments, across the time span of a track, which proves I have actually listened. I love doing it. I find it exciting.
What do I get back for it? Next to nothing, with very few exceptions. Usually I am lucky if I even get a "thank you" back. And, as we all know, most of the other comments from people consist of "great" "sick" "amazing song".
What am I missing? Or is my music actually, in fact, crap? I really do wonder sometimes. But then it would be helpful to get constructive feedback. And other times I remind myself that it should not matter, because I enjoy what I do, and that is what matters. But sometimes it would be nice to get more back than just "nice song". Especially since I am doing what all these articles say. Is it just an exciting fairytale, that if you give you will get? Because it seems to work for others.
/rant
Just feel a bit :( about it sometimes. I wish there was a way to NOT see the stats. When I successfully tell myself they don't matter, there they are in front of me bringing me down again lol. What purpose do they really serve anyway other than to boost one's ego?
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