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Featured Artist: David Jorre

The second artist in THE ORFIUM X MAGNETIC MAG PROJECT is David Jorre. South African born and raised, David now lives in London where he finds the soul of techno. 

To hear more from David Jorre, sign up and follow him on Orfium!

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How to Plan, Book, and Successfully Go on your Own Tour

Being a relatively independent artist, you juggle many roles and responsibilities. When it comes time to book your own tour, it’s not just one responsibility to add to your list of things to do. If you’re lucky, you have some partners/bandmates that will tag along and help you plan. If you’re alone, you’re wearing all of the hats. Regardless of how many of you there are, it’s always going to be harder work than a loaded manager that can financially and resourcefully book your tour for you.

Below are a few tips on how to successfully plan, book, and go on your own tour.

1. Make sure your assets are as up-to-date as possible

When it comes to marketing yourself for venues and promoters, you’ll need a clean, current website, social media presence, and media kit. Maybe it’s time for a new photo shoot and a couple blog posts here and there. You want to market yourself as effectively as possible, so be prepared because venues will rely on these resources.

2. Plan with many months in mind

If you can swing a sweet gig at an awesome venue last minute, snag it if it all possible. However, more likely than not, you’ll need to plan months in advance for which venues you’re playing in which order. Plan your route. This gives you enough time to get a good day and time slot, plan for travel time and accommodations, and prep your website, social media, and tour announcements. While you’re at it, do your research on these venues and towns/cities. Social media can really help out with this planning item.

3. Book your opening acts with local artists

These artists most likely have a following, whether big or small. They can show you the ropes with the venue, help promote you, and serve as a good contact while you’re still on the other side of the country.

4. Schedule free time

It’s pretty obvious but you’ll definitely want to jam-pack your tour with shows. However, free time is important. Give yourself/yourselves at least a day, an evening, a weekend to explore, take a nap, rest up, and eat a real meal (not just PBR and well tequila shots at the show). Rest time is important for performing your best and keeping your mental state sane.

5. Raise (or get) money

Food, mileage, lodging, drinks, and general cash are all things you’ll need to not only account for but plan for. Try to raise as much money as possible to bring with you so you don’t have to scrounge or ball on a budget. Sleeping in the van isn’t as cool as it appears.

6. Be professional and courteous

Follow up with the venue after booking. Confirming doors, set times, and venue protocols is not only smart planning, it’s professional and the venue will appreciate it. While you’re there, you and your fan base need to be courteous. Don’t get outrageously drunk and destroy the place. Respect it, the venue is doing you a favor (at this point in your career).

7. Hype

You’re about to go on your, you should be excited! And so should your fans. Post frequently on social media, hype up your tour. Tweet from the road, send photos, and check in at venues. It shows your excitement and gets others excited for the show.

8. Keep in touch

You’ve finished your tour and you absolutely killed it. Keep in touch with the venues and all of the people you met along the way. It’s not only professional and courteous, it keeps you top-of-mind when it comes to booking more shows. Thank venues for their space and staff, they work hard too.

Loads of planning and money are needed to create a successful tour. If you think ahead and act both fiscally responsibly and proactively, you’re bound to nail your first tour with as little pain as possible. Best of luck to all artists, you work hard, go perform hard!

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3 Ways to Promote Your Music on Social Media Without Exhausting Your Followers

Social media is the closest thing to free advertising artists can have. It’s very easy to post, answer questions, and share your music and music friends’ music to create a following and network of genre-based music. It’s also easy to fatigue your followers.

Striking the right balance of “I’m awesome” and “I’m modest” is difficult, especially when it comes to your art. It’s even more difficult to do so without flooding their newsfeeds and warranting unfollows and even worse - bashing.

We have 3 easy but imperative tips for not exhausting your followers’, or potential followers’, newsfeeds while still engaging them and growing your social presence and following.

1. Post genuinely

Playing “too cool for school” is too blasé on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, you name it. No one wants to follow an artist who thinks they’ve already discovered the next best thing in music months or years ago. That’s not too exciting. But posting aggressive, ALL CAPS posts is too much. You look like a 14 year old DJ in his parent’s basement super stoked about the fact that he just made his first song in Abelton AND figured out how to upload and share it. Modesty is key here.

Genuinely post about your new track or something exciting that happened to you as an artist. If you’re excited, you should be - but don’t flood their newsfeeds with something obnoxious. You don’t need to write your life’s story in a Facebook post, in fact, just don’t do it. But expressing that this track is personally exciting for you is enough to pique the interest of followers.

Even if your update is not too exciting, continue to post genuinely. No, “Eh, I don’t really know about this one, I think it kinda sucks ;p,” but a genuine post like “I just made this new track, I’m excited to share it with you all. Let me know what you think,” still keeps followers’ interest in check.

Be genuine, post genuinely, and don’t make posts like the insincere ones that annoy you. Remember, you should be grateful for your fans and their support, so speak to them as your friends, not your subjects.

2. Interaction and engagement

It’s often that you’ll see an artist page or profile that has a few hundred followers here and there but doesn’t post much to interact with its followers. Keep an eye on these types of profiles and you’ll notice that the follower count drops or comments and likes dissipate.

It’s important to make your posts, your entire page, really, as interactive as possible. Interaction drives follower engagement, inside and outside of the social profile. By interactive, we mean prompts for comments, shares, likes, personal anecdotes, etc. Followers love to interact with the artist. Interaction doesn’t mean just post a comment, it means receiving a comment back. Social media platforms are basically the closest you’ll get to an artist outside of the venue. They’ll interact with you if you offer it.

Community engagement is most important. Take the time to respond to your followers. Not only will it light up their day, it’ll peg you as a humble artist. You can’t just ask an artist to interact with your post and not acknowledge the fact that they did so.

There are two things to remember when considering interaction with your followers:

A. Interacting with your follower engagement means they might just check back in on your profile.

B. It might prompt shares and interaction by people outside of your followers that then convert to followers.

No one is too busy for social media, use yours wisely.

3. Incentivize your followers or potential followers

Our third and final tip dovetails our second social media tip: incentivize.

Incentivizing your audience means a number of things. The first, you are way more likely for people to interact with your posts if you offer them some sort of incentive. Everyone wants that carrot on the stick.

Secondly, it offers a chance for your followers to share your post, opening your post and thus your profile for people that don’t yet follow you. Everyone loves to show what they’ve acquired on Facebook. A cool incentive from an awesome artist is share-worthy. These shares show other users that they too have a chance at this incentive and this artist was way cool for offering this to me.

Finally, it drives your followers to engage with you on another level, claiming some sort of prize from one of their favorite artists. It’s more than just asking your followers what their favorite album artwork is. It’s another thing to ask them this and offer a signed copy of the album to the random winner.

It’s very important to remember to keep these incentives realistic. Don’t promise a trip to LA and a night out with you at a club unless you’re willing to dish out some serious cash to do so. What’s worse than finding yourself in a financial bind? Lying to your fans and not following through.

You also don’t want to offer incentives that aren’t realistic in terms of your time. Nothing too in-depth. No, “share your life story with me and I’ll pick my favorite,” that leaves you spending hours reading countless stories and subjectively finding your favorite and frivolously discarding your least favorite.

Manageable, realistic incentives that say “thank you” to your followers are the perfect kind of incentives to keep people sharing, interacting, and engaging.

Social media can be one of your most powerful, least cost-intensive modes of advertising yourself as an artist. It’s a careful, yet easy art, once mastered. Everybody loves their fans, share the love with them personally on social media platforms.

Follow Orfium on our social media platforms for more insights into being a successful digital artist, your artist rights, and ways to get more monetarily out of your music.

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Weekly Featured Artists - Keep an Eye Out!

Recently at Orfium, we’ve been receiving a lot of outreach from artists, listeners, and appreciators alike. We truly can’t thank everyone enough.

With all of that being said, we’re excited to announce that we’re going to start featuring artists on our blog, Facebook, and Instagram. We appreciate one another - everyone’s grind toward work and determination - which is why you guys should check out their tracks! 

We’ll be featuring artists weekly so you can hear a bit more about them, their tracks, and view their profiles.

What better way to hear new music than supporting artists that believe in the importance of fair and accessible music?

Check us out here on our blog, our Facebook, our Instagram, and Orfium.com to follow our weekly featured artists. 

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The Upcoming Orfium App

We oftentimes are asked where our mobile app is and what features it will hold. Although we can’t promise an official launch date, we can confirm that our app is in the works!

Our desktop version is the horse and our app is the cart. We need a functional desktop platform for artists to upload music before we can take Orfium on the go for listening or content management. Luckily, the app will operate a lot like the desktop version. The only difference here is that we’ll actually be providing local storage on your phone, so you can download music and listen to it offline!

So artists, you will still be able to view your play count, followers, downloads, etc. and listeners, you’ll still be able to listen, follow artists and playlists, and discover new music all on the go.

It’s the biggest question we receive and that’s the honest answer. So don’t worry, it’s on it’s way, but the cart has to catch up to the horse first!

Have other questions about Orfium? Visit us on our website to find out more!

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YouTube Content ID - Upload and Monetize Your Music on YouTube

With 1.3 billion users, it’s no wonder that 40% of all online music consumption comes from YouTube. With YouTube’s content id service, you can collect royalties from every video that contains your music on YouTube!

How does YouTube Content ID work?

The process is simple and fruitful. Upload your music to generate a digital fingerprint of your music through Orfium (make sure to select “YouTube Monetization”). With the digital fingerprint, any video that contains your music will be identified and claimed, and then YouTube will begin running ads around the videos. Every time an ad is viewed, you get a percentage of that revenue.

Why use Orfium for YouTube content ID?

As a rights administrator with a direct deal with YouTube and an 80% artist payout, Orfium can ensure you get paid royalties from every video that contains your music. With no upfront cost, no long-term contracts, and monthly royalty pay outs, Orfium supports artists with freedom and transparency that helps your music career prosper.

Be smart - collect money from YouTube.

Nine out of ten independent artists are not collecting royalties from YouTube, don’t be one of them. Get the credit and money you deserve from others using your music in their videos.

In addition to YouTube Content ID, Orfium also offers Facebook monetization, royalty free licensing, digital distribution, remix monetization, and publishing administration services. We’re big on artist rights. You can opt in or out of all of our services at anytime with no fear that your music is held captive.

Click here to learn more about YouTube Content ID monetization with Orfium and feel free to reach out to us with any comments or questions!

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Backup your SoundCloud Library on Orfium for Free

Tremendous respect is due to SoundCloud. They paved the way for digital music in a complex industry that is notorious for resisting change and yet still managed to build an incredible community. Unfortunately, it looks like that pioneering has taken its toll. Yesterday, SoundCloud disclosed it lost €51 million Euros in 2015, and is slated to run out of money by the year’s end. It would be a tremendous blow to the music world if SoundCloud goes down, and SoundCloud users need to prepare for this potential reality by backing up their music. 

The good news: Orfium offers unlimited free hosting and has a direct import from SoundCloud feature. Orfium also offers artists an 80% revenue split, and there are never any upfront costs or long-term contracts.

Some of the features available on Orfium include: YouTube monetization, direct sales to fans, micro-licensing, creating and sharing playlists, and much more. Some of the features artists can look forward to in the near future on Orfium include: subscription streaming, remix monetization, Facebook monetization, digital distribution, and publishing administration.

Orfium’s number one objective is to empower artists and it is our philosophy that artists should always control how their music is consumed and distributed. We are always open to collaborate with others who share this vision, including SoundCloud.

Click here to import your SoundCloud library directly to Orfium for free.

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Us for You

With the evolution of music consumption, it’s no doubt that music streaming has surfaced, bewildered, and then optimized itself as a result of scrutiny and expending. Whether a listener or artist, we all have our standards for populating a platform with our music or simply pressing ‘play.’ Enter Orfium.

Orfium wants nothing more than to provide a seamless streaming platform filled with whatever music you can imagine, all while providing higher-than-normal artist payouts.

Why not exercise your rights as an artist, reaping the benefits you deserve? And as a listener, why not explore an extensive library while knowing you are single-handedly supporting an artist more than Spotify or Soundcloud ever have or will?

Talking Business

As a verified user, you are able to monetize to the fullest extent, receiving 80% payout, a massive 60%-70% more than Soundcloud can ever give you.

Orfium truly and simply cares about your rights as an artist and wants you to have the freedom to do what you want with your content and get the money you deserve. We provide remix monetization, micro-licensing, Creative Commons licensing, and even YouTube monetization (more on that to come). You’re even able to set your own download limitations. It’s your music, you own it, you control it, and we can help.

We understand the convenience of having your music all in one place so we made it easier for you to import to Orfium and get the payment you deserve. You can import directly from Soundcloud and finally get the payment Soundcloud was holding out on.

There’s plenty more to explore and learn more about Orfium’s artists. This is the tip of the wealthiest artist iceberg you’ve ever seen. Learn more here.

Why Switch My Preferred Platform?

Is it really that great anyway? It could be, but does it pay and represent its artists and their rights like Orfium does? Absolutely not. And we’ll always try to be better, by the way.

Our platform is intuitive enough to create a profile, discover new music, follow artists, and grow your profile to be more of a tastemaker than just a listener. As a tastemaker, you can even follow albums and playlists.

Once you have built your profile and discovered new music, you can engage socially right on Orfium.com and really shoot for the stars on that tastemaker plan. People can interact with your playlists and you get the credit for finding that really obscure jimbe player before he was cool.

So what do we know about music streaming platforms and artists rights? A whole lot more than the other guys out there. So artists, upload your music and get the money and managed rights you deserve. Listeners, create the profile, discover the music, and interact with the people you want. We all have friends that love making music and deserve every bit of credit for it, so listen, share, enjoy, and get paid.

If you have any suggestions on our platform, please feel free to reach out to us. We can’t be the best without listening to you!

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New Upload Manager and Verification Tools

Hello Orfium Community!

We are excited to announce two new features on Orfium: a new account verification option through PayPal, and a Upload Manager that allows you to mass upload/update music on Orfium.

New Account Verification

Orfium requires all artists who want to monetize their music to verify their accounts. Artists can now choose to verify their Orfium account by simply linking their verified PayPal account. You can still verify your account using the existing verification method if you do not use PayPal, but you have more options now :)

To verify you Orfium account, go to the ‘Account info & Settings’ in the top right menu (3 dots). Then click on the verification tab under the ‘About’ section, and select which verification method you prefer.

If you have not yet verified your account with PayPal and want to use it to verify your Orfium account then first log into PayPal. Next click on the 'Summary' tab at the top. You will need to complete your profile, so click on the 'Get the Most out of PayPal' button. Here you can confirm your bank account, confirm you email, link a credit card, and confirm your mobile phone number. Once this is complete, you PayPal profile will be verified and you will be able to verify you Orfium Account.

Upload Manager

Artists can now upload multiple tracks at once using the Upload Manager feature. In addition to uploading multiple tracks, you can also use this feature to mass update the monetization settings and/or meta-data for your existing music on Orfium. You can even define and save your own preset combinations which you can apply to new uploads in one click. If you aren't afraid of spreadsheets you also have the option to update your tracks by uploading a spreadsheet. You can access the Upload Manager on the right sidebar under the ‘My Music’ section. Currently, you will only see the upload manager if you have previously uploaded tracks. You can also access the upload manager by following this link: https://www.orfium.com/upload-manager/tracks/

Shopping Cart

We also added a new shopping cart system. From here you can also add-on royalty free licenses when available and also upgrade to purchase full albums when a track you’ve added is part of an album.

The Orfium team is hard at work adding new features as well as refine existing ones. We growing very quickly and have a lot of great things on the horizon. As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you for being apart of Orfium!

Sincerely,

The Orfium Team

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Brief Outline of Monetizing Music on Orfium

In this post I’ll provide an overview of the monetization options offered on Orfium and hopefully create a better understanding of what Orfium offers. I’ll follow up soon with a more comprehensive post for each monetization category.

One of our goals at Orfium is to provide every possible digital revenue stream to artists and content providers. Currently all services are offered on a simple 80/20 revenue share with 80% going to artists and no up-front costs. In the case of digital distribution we are exploring an alternative model that would pass 100% of revenue back to artists after recovering our costs, however we intend to keep it so that it would still cost nothing up front because we believe that we should not make money until our artists do. Also our goal is to create solutions, not problems, therefore all of our services are offered non-exclusively on an individual opt-in/out basis with no long-term contracts whenever possible. This way we can easily accommodate any deals our users make with 3rd parties.

You can consider all of the monetization options on Orfium to fall under the following categories:

Onsite Retail

Offsite Retail (Distribution)

Major Publishing

Minor Publishing (Micro-licensing)

Onsite Rights Management

Offsite Rights Management

Onsite Retail:

Liberally defined, this includes all revenue derived from direct sales to end-listeners. This includes selling digital downloads and subscription revenues for streaming and radio. Currently we only offer digital downloads but plan to expand to streaming and radio subscriptions in the future. The default price for tracks and albums is $0.99 and $9.99, respectively, however artists may also set their own prices.

Offsite Retail:

Offsite retail is simply distribution to other retail outlets such as Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, Amazon, etc…

Major Publishing:

This includes revenue derived from commercial placements of music such as in film and TV productions, advertisements, and also songwriting. The revenue can be in the form of a lump sum or ongoing royalty depending on the deal. Major Publishing differs from Minor Publishing in that it generally involves much larger deals for prominent placements that are often actively sought out and custom negotiated.

Minor Publishing (Micro-Licensing):

Revenue derived from standardized royalty free licenses purchased directly on Orfium for a one-time lump sum. This is a much more automated process than publishing that makes smaller licensing deals much more accessible. For example a YouTube user could simply buy a standard micro-license to use a song as the background music in a YouTube video that would otherwise be inaccessible through the traditional publishing route. One thing that sets Orfium apart from other royalty free licensing platforms, aside from the 80% payout ratio, is the versatility of the license. Three different licensing tiers are offered ranging from $40 to $500 (artists may also set their own prices) and the highest license permits music to be used in projects that have a total production budget of up to $50,000 and up to $50,000 in lifetime revenue. If the song is significantly placed in a musical product, such as a remix, cover song, guided mediation, musical theatrical performance, or other musical product that features the music as a primary core component, then the revenue allowance is significantly reduced. The license is very simple which means it can cover a much wider variety of cases than typical micro-license offerings.

Onsite Rights Management:

Rights management revenue is derived unauthorized uses of music, such as remixes, cover songs, mashups, and 3rd party podcasts. Onsite rights management covers infringing uses of music by users on Orfium. The original rightsholder is granted control over the monetization of the infringing use and keeps 100% of revenue generated. While we don’t officially support podcasts yet, we plan to in the near future and users will be able to monetize unauthorized uses of their music in podcast episodes.

Offsite Rights Management:

In addition to offering onsite rights management services, we also offer this service for external websites. Currently YouTube is the only effective system that has audio fingerprint detection and monetization capabilities, however Facebook announced plans to release a similar system and we are also following developments of such a system on SoundCloud. The way the system works on Youtube is that it will automatically detect use of music in videos and when it finds matches it will start displaying advertisements around the video that generate revenue. As other rights management systems besides YouTube are added to our offering, artists will be able to individually opt-in/out of each property on which they want Orfium to represent and monetize their rights.

I hope you found this overview to be helpful. If you have any questions or suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected]

Cheers!

Chris

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Orfium Tutorial: Embedding Music From Orfium on Your Website or Blog

An easy to way showcase your music on your personal website or blog is to simply embed it from Orfium. Examples below.

A single track:

A playlist:

You can embed any song, track, or album, and embedded tracks and albums will even retain their purchase and download links. You don’t need to worry about audio hosting nor implementing an ecommerce checkout to sell music on your site, just embed it from Orfium and it’s all taken care of for you.

To embed music 1) Click the share button on the bottom right corner of a song, album, or playlist, 2) click the embed symbol “</>”, 3) highlight and copy the embed code and paste it wherever you want it embedded:

If you are using Wordpress then use the alternate Wordpress code provided, but just make sure you have the Iframe plugin installed first. You also can change the theme from dark to light if it looks better with your website’s color scheme. For Tumblr I found it easiest to insert the embed code by using Tumblr's markdown format post.

Cheers!

Chris

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Feature Your Music on Orfium’s YouTube

We just set up a new YouTube channel for promoting Orfium and it’s users. We will be uploading interviews with Orfium artists and featuring their music. If you are interested in being a featured artist on our YouTube channel please contact us at [email protected]

Check out our first upload below:

Cheers!

- The Orfium Team

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Personalized Music Recommendations on Orfium Powered by a Neo4j Graph Database and Machine Learning

We just rolled out an initial version of personalized music recommendations. We’ll admit it is a bit crude at the moment but now that the technological foundation is in place we can start dialing in more powerful algorithms.

Currently the recommendations appear below the audio player in the right sidebar whenever a song finishes playing, however we are definitely going to update this and make the widget more accessible. The system is based on a Neo4j graph database which is essentially a more powerful way to store relationships between data for rapid complex queries.

The current algorithm simply works by comparing music you recently played to the listening patterns of other users who also listened to the same songs, and recommends songs those users also frequently listen to that you haven’t heard yet. It’s a lot like how product recommendations on Amazon works when it recommends products purchased by other users who also bought the same product as you. We have many optimizations to make such as limiting how many songs to display by the same artist. In the future we can even get more advanced by doing things such as actually analyzing the audio patterns and finding songs with a similar style. Right now we have a handful of algorithms we are testing using machine learning so the quality of the recommendations will continue to evolve.

We’ll keep you update about further developments on this. In the mean time feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Cheers!

- The Orfium Devs

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Where to go for professional music video production and promotional videos

Music videos and promotional videos are some of the most effective means to engage your audience and getting started is not as hard as you think. When we realized we needed to have a video made about Orfium we initially thought it would be complicated and expensive to do. Since we are a startup with limited resources we didn’t think we would be in position to produce a video for several months... that is until we met Dawn and Matt over at Creative Collision.

We initially heard of Creative Collision while attending a conference for startups so we decided to give them a call. We actually weren’t even planning on doing the video immediately, we just wanted to learn more about what the process would entail so we could plan ahead. The call was very short, no longer than 30 minutes. We basically just introduced ourselves, showed our website and explained how it works, explained how we are a startup on a limited budget and discussed the message we wanted to convey.

It turned out Dawn actually has a lot of experience in the music industry. They were very nice and said they could work within our budget without any negotiation so we decided to give them a shot. Considering our limited budget we did not have very high expectations. Within 24 hours they emailed us the script and by the end of the second day they caught us completely off guard when they already had finished the first cut. We were especially surprised since other than the brief phone call and minor revisions to the script, we didn’t give them any further guidance. We were completely blown away by the speed and quality of their work. They had the video 95% done on the first try and the production was as good as any major brand’s TV advertisement.

We only had a couple minor changes to request, which they quickly took care of, and one day later the video was completely done! We couldn’t have been more pleased with the result and they even made two alternate short versions which only took one more day to complete. Check out the video below and judge the quality for yourself!

If you need any videos produced we highly recommend Creative Collision. They were very understanding of our needs and couldn’t have been easier to work with. As a startup we always have many tasks to do and not enough man power to finish them all. The most valuable asset you can find are independent people who you can count on to solve your problems for an affordable price without needing to be managed.

I am always happy to recommend anyone who provides such exceptional service. We definitely got more than what we paid for and I firmly believe that when good people help me I should do whatever I to give back simply because that’s how the world ought to work and at Orfium that’s what we are about.

- Chris Mohoney, Co-Founder

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New Music Discovery Page

We updated the music discovery page. Now instead of all music being displayed in a single vertical feed it uses a tiled grid style with one row per category. We also added the top charts to this page.

You can see this new page at https://www.orfium.com/music/

We feel like this new interface makes it easier to view and sample more music than before and is better organized. We will also be making some incremental enhancements soon including additional categorizations such as free music vs paid music, personalized recommendations, and individual category discovery pages with rows of tiles for each subcategory.

Stay tuned for updates and let us know what you think!

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New Features on Orfium: Social Sharing and Embedded Audio Objects

You can now one-click share your favorite music on Orfium to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ as well as embed it directly on your blogs and websites. We had actually had these features planned since the beginning but as we were anxious to get Orfium live as soon as possible, these were not included in the first release of the platform.

To access the sharing menu simply click the share icon on the bottom right corner of any audio object and then the menu will appear for one-click sharing and copying the embed code.

See here for a more detailed tutorial about embedding audio objects from Orfium

On Twitter shared songs are playable. Unfortunately at the moment Facebook only posts artwork and a link back to the song on Orfium. We have configured everything to be recognized as audio objects on Facebook, however enabling audio the play directly in a Facebook post is a back-end permission set for each domain by Facebook admins. We tried to get in contact with someone but Facebook does not have any support contact whatsoever, not even for app developers, no email, nothing...All they have is a community forum that is flooded with posts and I’m sure very few actually get read by a Facebook employee. Considering Facebook is worth over $300 billion there is no excuse to not provide support. It really couldn’t be more frustrating. There ought to be a legal requirement to provide some minimum level of basic email support in order to be allowed to conduct business online.

Anyway I’ll stop ranting about Facebook now, but just know that we promise to always have human support available on Orfium :)

Chris

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Welcome to Orfium Industry News!

Here we will keep you informed about what’s happening in the Music Industry. Check back soon!

- The Orfium Team