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Would y'all mind if I post playlists here?
I make playlists every so often because I hear such cool music and compile it into playlists not freely based on genre but rather on feeling and also similarity. Tastemaking, more or less.
The problem is... these playlists are promotional, to promote the music of my band. You can listen to these playlists without the context of that, but I think it's important as I don't want to self-promo any more than I have to.
So yeah. Is it ok if I post playlists here, and... would y'all be fine with that?
Personally, I don’t find bare lists of songs to be a good enough reason to listen to the songs. I like reading about why people like their favorite songs, but that takes more effort than posting a list.
That's a really good point. Something to think about because all of the songs are there for reasons, and I would love to talk about them more.
I never get a chance to explain why I chose a song over smth else.
In previous discussions about self promotion we've had the general vibe was that as long as that isn't solely what you're doing, and it isn't excessive, it's probably fine.
Beyond that it people don't dig it they can respond accordingly and appropriately.
Yeah. The last topic I did in music kinda going in "self-promo" territory was when I asked everyone for their go-to sad songs and I mentioned appropriate context as to why (a song I did).
I don't really want to self-promo excessively or even too much. I 110% admit I have thought about it numerous times, and absolutely want the listens but... In general, I never try to directly promote with having something to give back or ask in return. That's why when I did that topic, I asked for what everyone's sad songs were because I genuinely wanted to know.
With the playlists, they're always for the purpose for sharing various songs from artists I love, big or small. I love supporting musicians, being on Spotify gets me a few perks out of it I can take advantage of.
The most direct way I can think of to cash off the playlists on Tildes is if I were to explicitly link the band I'm a part of, and promote that way. If I don't do that, then... really, the people who get the most out of the playlists are the artists themselves.
I do love Tildes and love being part of the community as much as humanly possible. To that end, my purpose for this really is to share music... and if people don't like it or make rly good points as to why it's still self-promo, I'll stop doing it.
If you're promoting yourself it's self promotion. I don't mean that as a criticism, simply as a statement of fact.
What makes it acceptable is the question of whether or not that is all/a majority of what you do. Slipping your band's stuff into playlists, larger discussions where relevant is still contributing positively to the site and, IMO, not a problem. We have a few people who have directly promoted their own projects here, even, but because they were active community members it wasn't an issue.
I don't think you'll have any issues based on everything you've said here to be honest. I'd say feel free to add your band to these lists or talk about it.
Sorry if this is obvious (I've never really gotten into playlists) but I'm struggling to connect the 'compiling cool music' with your own self promotion. Is your own music peppered into the mix? Is the title of the playlist your band, or does it link to your band in some way?
I'm generally more interested in promoting music discussion than music sharing, since more-often-than-not music forums just devolve into lots of people talking about what they're listening to, and not engaging in discussion unless it's an artist they've heard of/enjoyed prior.
Flip the question on yourself - would you be interested in committing to listening to a playlist of songs someone else posted here, regardless of genre, because it was posted here?
If more people here are into making playlists then maybe a recurring thread would be best.
I create the playlists to post on social media to indrectly promote my band, but it's also to promote music from peers and bands I listen to. The initial motivation to do these was for self-promotion via piggybacking, and because I think mindlessly creating promotional content is awful.
Probably not tbh (although not for obvious reasons). But I am glad I asked y'all because it's replies like these that help me gauge what I should and shouldn't do. I make playlists to share a specific mood or sound I like, and that's cool enough... but I do agree it just devolves into talking about what you're listening to.
Ultimately, I want to support musicians who are at the bottom of the royalty pools on Spotify. That could be a perspective to pivot off of, so that it isn't just mindless music-posting and instead... it adds an active element of discussion. Also recommending music based on such sounds back and forth is really cool, that's active discussion as well.
I think bringing music from my scene is really cool, and notable so I might pivot to that.
Absolutely - go for it. If someone doesn't like them they can just filter out the playlist tag, no worries. Post to your hearts content.
Thank you! Might post here soon.
But yeah, mostly worried because of the self-promo aspect
From the Tildes Code of Conduct
Fair enough then
Probably not an issue now. It's something i think could eventually devolve into "low effort content", but cross that bridge when we get to it. If it inspires others to do the same then we may want to do like a monthly big post.