Making My Catalogue Actually Visible (Or Why I’m Done Selling Meat Pies in Texas)
A friend of mine used to sell Australian meat pies here in Austin. He had done a tour of duty with Dell computers in the 90s I think or maybe the 2000s and it was a really good product, but it’s really hard to sell savory pies in Texas. No one gets it.
I saw some the other day in Round Top. You got to wonder how they’re doing with that. Very famous pie shop, which should probably just stick to sweets.Texans and Americans generally only consider pie a desert.
All this is to say that I’ve kept my catalog on SoundCloud for well over 10 years. It’s kind of a place for people to go to listen to music. The problem being first you have to tell people what SoundCloud is, and if they do (somehow) know what SoundCloud is, they immediately think you’re a SoundCloud rapper, which I am not. I don’t think I could be further away from that actually.
So I’m gonna move everything to YouTube, but like any big decision I’m gonna think about it for a week. Pull everything down from SoundCloud or just delete the account and then put whatever good stuff there may be on YouTube.
Thing is SoundCloud has this pro plan where you kind of get listens and you pay for at least 100 listens, and who knows what kind of robot is listening.
It’s a little sketchy especially since a lot of the listens tend to come from places where you imagine the wall of android phones listening to your music.
Point: It’s vanity based and no one can find it.
If I had a YouTube link with playlists it would be a lot more useful. It’s a some work but I have the time right now and it’s obviously worth it. Really I could just pull down SoundCloud and the world would survive, but I do want to put some old stuff up there reclaim my channel and kind of maybe run away from the old singer songwriter stuff, which has its charm
It’s just not where I am now and again there won’t be a massive outcry from fans across the globe.
I have a pretty decent little channel on YouTube to build my following from and the jams I’m getting right now are great so we’ll see how I feel in a week.
The key is getting something to people where they already know how to look and you don’t want to get over that hump of teaching people what SoundCloud is.
Everyone knows what YouTube is, everyone uses it-probably daily, so you want to be where people are.
Feel like I should have done this long ago, but that’s a book itself.