Local Music Only
We're collecting the best underground music, from all over, to share via our homemade music streaming app.
Submit Music*All rights and ownership of submitted music is retained by the artists. We just host the music.
Wristband Radio is currently a team of one. My name is Steve Downey. I'm a local musician turned software developer.
I'm fulfilling a lifelong dream of creating my own music streaming app. A home for the best underground music no one has ever heard of.
I'm also using this project for my portfolio if I ever decide to apply for a new dev job.
Wristband Radio is on a mission to collect 10,080 minutes of excellent underground music to share in our homemade music streaming app.
The longterm vision:
Every business that uses music, in pretty much any way, must buy a license from a performing rights organization like Ascap or BMI. Even small, locally-owned businesses pay for these licenses if they play music in their lobby for example.
The money they pay for those licenses then flows out of their community and mostly gets funneled to the major publishing companies and their artists. It's only fair. If we play their music, they earned the royalties.
The thing is, the major publishing companies don't have the market cornered on good music. They may have the market cornered on marketting and distributing music, but there's a huge amount of great music being recorded in our own neighborhoods.
What if there was a streaming radio option that played music based on where that music was created? That would give our local businesses an option to funnel their royalty money to artists in their own communities.
That's what we're building. In doing so, we hope to create a great new platform for music discovery, audience engagement, and music industry data. Maybe it can even grow into a new A&R channel for the major labels and publishers.
Our progress:
- So far, we've collected 25 songs. 102 minutes of excellent local music is just over 1% progress toward our goal.
- First, we received permission from a few of our favorite local artists to use thier music while we build this proof-of-concept application.
- Next, we made a mobile native version of music player which will be available in app stores after we jump through some hoops.
- Then, we implemented some moderately-kickass technology to resolve an issue where our songs sometimes didn't pause correctly. That's fixed now.
- Also with that new technology, we were able to add a track bar to the music player that shows the duration and current timestamp of the song. Like I said, kinda kickass.
Coming soon...
- Now that there's accessible music on the app, we're going to split the experience into streaming radio and on-demand streaming features.
- Then, we'll add a way to create an account which will allow you to save radio station configurations and playlists.
- Meanwhile, we'll continue adding great music and working towards releasing the mobile native versions of the app.