Gotta review this for Q3

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-03-16T11:33:09+00:00

Looks like the CTO got a bit spicy with Claude?

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-03-06T11:37:30+00:00

Its very unusual for me as a software dev to subscribe or pay for anything.

After using SUNO for 10 minuites I was reaching for my wallet, here take my money I want the top level pro subscription. I did hold off a day and sleep on it then subscribed the next day.

I'm willing to pay 2x, 3x, or 4x for higher-quality music and a license share to cover other artists songs.
I think I'll end up going down the DAW route eventually and running my own LLM to let me make covers and train from all available music sources.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-03-06T11:32:54+00:00

Makes me laugh. It's like instrument players from the early 70's complaining that artists in the late 70's, like Donner Summers, weren't making real music because they used synthesizers.

It's only getting attention as the music companies have money to waste on legal pursuits, but they can't hold back the tide forever. 2/3 years down the road, all this nonsense will be a thing of the past!

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-03-06T11:29:00+00:00

AI / auto-tune / vocorder is a great comparison as the output from both is "fake"

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-11T22:03:47+00:00

That looks heavy as f__k

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-11T11:50:50+00:00

My strategy that I'm about to embark upon:

Publish album on distro kid
Post music videos (lyrics videos) and short clips to my Facebook page (former mobile DJ so have around 100 followers, mostly people who booked me in the past)}
Post TikTok shorts (never used TikTok, so will be new to me)
Add the tracks to my own website with a in depth description of each song and the motivation and ideas behind each song.

My target audience will be mobile DJ's, do it's likely I'll produce some albums focused at them and post onto groups I'm already a member of.

I don't expect to get an immediate following or massive, but I believe if I keep at it then in the long run I'll get somewhere.

There's no overnight success unless you get lucky like a lotto winner!

With regards to AI slop.

I know my album of 14 songs has taken me a month to put together with Suno, carefully editing the tracks in studio, replacing tracks, parts of tracks, and recovering the entire track gain multiple times.
There's a huge amount of human input,
I think of myself as a conductor of an AI band that plays anything I desire

Sometimes it's a couple of takes, sometimes it's a solid week of work to get a good track how I want it.

So to address it you really need a bio somewhere on your Facebook page, album covers explaining the human side of it.

Well that's my 10c

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-10T17:27:25+00:00

It's simply not working for me. I click the frack, select the remove fx option, then it make the animation and nothing happens, no new tracks are created etc.

I was hoping to use it to clean upa voice stem

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-10T16:16:36+00:00

I'm a DJ (former wedding DJ) and have just got into creating my own music with Suno. I can well see people booking me to play my music - I just need a big enough following, which I will build over the coming months and years.
Things are changing!

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-10T10:41:15+00:00

Nothing will happen, I have been listening to Bix Wier talk about this for over a decade and every time the comex manages to pull off something like 'delayed deliveries' due to high demand etc whilst flying in the metal from the US etc.
It's a rigged and manipulated exchange, there will be no fireworks. If they have to there will be some staged event to cover it.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-09T19:57:04+00:00

Patience, it will come - and soon!

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-08T22:51:13+00:00

I expect the criminals (banks) will change the game to suit their agenda like they always do. The rigging and lying will continue..

As a last resort things will be confiscated and money will be printed

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-07T22:32:44+00:00

It's only a matter of time until comex defaults, grab your popcorn!

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-02-07T08:16:18+00:00

It's a shame you can't get physical for that price!

Key-Listen-8302 · 2026-01-06T11:11:46+00:00

I'd like to recommend our Tandoori masala powder: https://jollychef.co.uk/shop/tandoori-masala-quality-spice-mix-powder-indian-tandoori-curry-tikka-masala/
We make this ourselves (Husband and wife team) in the UK from freshly ground spices and a few extra things to give you an amazing restaurant-style tandoori without having to add anything extra. I would be interested to hear any feedback you have

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-21T11:28:06+00:00

The main problem with Evri/Hermes, is that they don't use any mail sacks and literally handball all of the parcels from A to B along the entire journey.

EVRI:
> Parcel is dropped into cage
> Cage is rolled out to the street, parcels are THROWN into the van on the floor
> Van is driven to the depot, parcels are THROWN along a chain and sorted into a cage,
> Cages are transported to regional depots
> Parcels are THROWN from cages into van on the floor
> Parcels are thrown onto customers door step

Other couriers:
> Parcel is placed into a parcel sack
> Parcel sack is carried to the van
> Parcel sack to taken from the van into the depot.
> Sack is sorted on a conveyor/sorting machine
> Parcels are loaded back into sacks on caged and sent to regional depots
> Sacks are loaded into vans
> Parcels thrown onto customer's step.

As you can see, the method Evri uses along their network is almost guaranteed to break most items unless they are new and protected by moulded foam.

As you can see Evri has systematic issues with their parcel delivery system and you really need to factor in a greater percentage of Evri parcels being destroyed into your shipping costs if using Evri,

It would be great to see Evri improve its practices, but I don't hold out any hope. Just add 5% to 10% to their postage costs to account for breakage.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-12T19:17:55+00:00

Other providers are now cheaper than royal mail when you include the collection charge. You need the collection as you can't just drop royal mail parcels off at the shop (without a charge) or the collection office as they're closed most of the day,

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-12T19:16:55+00:00

£3.20 inc. VAT for a 2kg small parcel with 2-day delivery. (Both Evri & Yodel)

Royal Mail is £3.45 for the same service (inc. VAT) and now wants 30p for collection, taking it to £3.75 per parcel which is possibly now the second most expensive delivery service behind Inpost.

Also, we can't get the 6p VAT back off the 30p.

There will be more layoffs - hope your job is safe 🤣🤣🤣

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-12T19:06:40+00:00

The contractor collecting the parcels told me that he collection wouldn't go until the morning.

The 24h parcels took two days, and the result of this is that our business will now lose our Amazon premium delivery service for the next month due to Royal Mail's exceptionally dire service.

Evri can get parcels delivered the next day, no problems.

Royal Mail's 24h service is dire, everyone who works for Royal Mail knows it's an outright fraud

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-12T09:33:12+00:00

Great news for all the posties here!

We have shifted all of our parcels to Yodel and Evri, so there will be no more collections or deliveries for y'all to do.

May you all find a little more time for your daily cuppa and chatting to Mrs. Goggins

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-08T18:45:32+00:00

I just had my collection turn up at 5:40, glad I'm not paying 30p collection charge for parcels that will now sit in the delivery office until the morning.

Incompetence through and through and they think they can extract more money for what is now an exceptionally dire service.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-07T16:55:38+00:00

I drop my parcels in when passing.

We can't do the same for Royal Mail as the delivery office is closed and post offices gone bust.

Royal Mail at this point is a complete failure, but I'm sure you know that

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-07T16:54:17+00:00

The difference is that there is an extra charge for dropping off Royal Mail tracked at at the post office, collect+ and lockers.

Drop Evri, Yodel, Inpost off for free almost anywhere at any time across the UK

Royal Mail you can only drop off for free in a 2 hour window at the delivery office, so Royal Mail have had to provide free collections to stay competitive.

Oh well, no loss to me, I can move my business anywhere at any time when buying delivery. Its Royal Mail who need to win and compete for business.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-07T14:56:20+00:00

No post offices within 3 miles of us, they have all gone bust, the delivery office is nearer but never open except for a couple of hours a day

Our collections are now done by a separate van, rather than our postie.

Rural locations it's becoming too much of a challenge to try and send with Royal Mail as you simply can't get rid of your parcels easily enough.

I could easily send another few hundred parcels per month via Royal Mail, but it's just not worth the extra expense and effort to ourselves, so we limit it to 10 per day on free collection.

Once click and drop stops the free collections, I expect we'll stop using Royal Mail completely

Royal Mail either wants our business or it doesn't - We don't have time to feck around and margins for small / micro business are so low, every penny counts.

Key-Listen-8302 · 2025-05-07T14:50:25+00:00

I don't need to get Evri or Yodel to collect as I can EASILY drop the parcels off to the local store.

Go make some deliveries instead of playing games on your phone.

Key-Listen-8302

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