29 Jul 11 Final Show Season 6
Here we are… just before the Summer Break in 2011 - like every year we will take a break, leave the studios, go out and relax, getting fresh air, inspiration, charging the battery. The Spacemusic battery is what we’re talking about. We counted 42 episodes during Season 6 of our Ambient & Electronic podcast; we enjoyed doing Coffee breaks, the NonStop editions and the new items called ‘Take 5′. We also enjoyed producing the Fresh Air! series which will be on ‘hold’ as well for the break. During the break please feel free to send us e-mail, please do send your demo/released albums so we can listen to these during lazy summer afternoons…
Will there be a Season 7? First we will dive into some figures, hosting bills, studio equipment and make decisions about maintenance. We are a non-sponsored station and this means we must rely on the support by our audience. One can make donations via the website and we need this kind of support very bad. So before we can think or tell about new programs for the upcoming new season, we must go and calculate costs and profits first. To be honest with you: during the past few months hardly any donation made it to the show; we’re talking a rare couple of dollars in 6 months time. We simply can’t pay the show from such amounts of money and after 6 seasons of Spacemusic and a very wide audience that seems a bit strange is it? Especially if we have a look at the download statistics for the podcast……
Each Spacemusic/ Fresh Air episode is downloaded app. 5,000 times. How ’bout if only one percent of these downloads would donate us one dollar? We’d generate 50 dollars each show. This would make sense right? This is not a stupid thought is it? This would solve our worries maintaining the Spacemusic podcast station. This would pay the bills and even make it possible for us to save some for studio equipment. Feel free to share your thoughts about this. Feel free to come up with brand new ideas creating a strong supportive community. We’re all ears.
So what’s up next? Up next is the final episode for season 6 and it will be a Happy Hour one! So we’ll chat some more about all the above and TC will share great new music that reached us by e-mail and postal lately. Music, some talk, interesting links to sites, cup of coffee, a nice final for the season. ETA show release: august 11th.
Stay tuned and enjoy your summer!
~spacemusic.nl
Tags: 2011, donation, downloads, final show, maintenance, podcast, rotterdam, spacemusic, statistics, Summer Break, TC
22 Jan 11 Music from the Cloud
Where do good tunes come from…? Many ways of searching of course. But lately this cloud based music library really got our full attention: Soundcloud.com Watching it for months and very simple basics: one uploads music, one clicks the PLAY button and listens. It’s that simple. And with the latest Apps coming from the Soundcloud team you can do this from your (Mobile) device anytime, organise tracks and artists, seek contact, visit the cloud itself and so forth. There’s a second iTunes like application running here and it fills up with fantastic tunes coming from all over the world… all based upon the genre/artist we choose to follow and at the same time some really exclusive tracks coming in from the lovely ’private’ sharing features within the Soundcloud world…. It rocks, it really does! Thanks to musicians willing to share their creations, the cloud is certainly one of the biggest musical injections for this station…
Tags: music, share, Soundcloud
18 May 09 Libsyn/Spacemusic plan
After the announcement by Libsyn to update account plans, we’ve had e-mails back and forth. First we’d have to update one account to a 250MB storage a month plan. We were not able to downgrade this one and keep the stats features around us, which was odd to say the least. The result for us would have been two accounts with extra costs around 72 dollars a year and storage we simply wouldn’t use.
Now, we’ve come to an agreement. Libsyn has offered to work with us on, let’s call it the ‘melting’ of two accounts. In simple words: one account will be the final result with all files hosted. Every single spacemusic podcast ever posted during the last 4 years will be part of this account. Costs are very acceptable.
a Big thanks to Phil from Libsyn! We’re still working on the plan as we speak, to upload and manage the publishing of older shows so that files are safely stored on the mothership and our listeners out there won’t notice a thing when downloading the shows…
How ’bout that?! ;-) Stay tuned for more info about the progress ~TC
Tags: account plan, agreement, Libsyn, spacemusic
19 Nov 08 Spacemusic podcast from Rotterdam, NL
Hi!
Looking for ambient music? Looking for Spacemusic? This is the right place to look. This is the official Spacemusic.nl website, the site including all shownotes for our podcast, links to artist websites, links to interesting podcasts and much more.
There’s a Facebook here, Spacemusic listeners in the book with a big smile! You wanna be in that same book? You can be! Just drop us an e-mail with your picture attached. We will add the photo to the Facebook and voilá…. you’re online before you know! Please drop some resolution of at least 800×600 for the best results.
And now that you’re here, we’d appreciate if you take two minutes of your time and leave us a message in the guestbook. Just go and click the guestbook tab for reading it, scroll down the page to post your reply to the guestbook, thank you!
In case you haven’t noticed, this post is a small summary of what’s going on here @ our website. And…. it’s to feed the search engines with the right information about Spacemusic. Somebody has to tell these robots what they can find here right? So here we are…. 
Welcome to Spacemusic! Online since 2005, from Rotterdam/Holland. Hosted by TC. Chillout. Keep it all cool. Keep it all healthy. Relax. Take off your shoes and dream away….
-webmaster-
(no ping machine has been used for this post)
Tags: ambient, ambient music from rotterdam, chillout, downtempo, electronic music, Holland, music, picture music, podcast, relaxation, rotterdam, soundtrack, space, spacemusic, spacemusic hosted by *TC*
