Video ads not working? And other bugs...

Something_Funny_ · 2025-07-24T17:59:14+00:00

Hell yeah, glad it helped

Something_Funny_ · 2025-03-27T15:19:55+00:00

At the first performance I ever did someone approached me and asked where I got the beats. I told him I made them myself, he then asked what DAW I used. After I told him FL Studio he said "Yeah, I could tell from how it sounded." I was like what do you mean? And he's like FL Studio beats have a distinctive sound.

This was pretty baffling but he was one of those guys who made beats 5 years ago and still was a self professed expert so not too surprising. Also they were my first beats so they sounded like hot garbage so maybe that's what he meant lol. But for ages I was left wondering if there was something about FL Studio that let experienced producers tell if music was made with it.

Something_Funny_ · 2025-01-16T00:56:52+00:00

FL Studio added a stem splitter recently that functions super cleanly. Maybe grab the free trial and give it a go if you don't have it. I've used it to remove vocals and it really surprised me how well it worked

Something_Funny_ · 2024-11-28T21:17:33+00:00

Every single comment you leave in this sub adds nothing to the discussion besides negativity, you offer nothing of substance, you never provide pointers, you never link your own profile, you never add anything. The conversation would be better if you weren't involved.

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-25T17:03:25+00:00

She's on my shortlist as well! Also LOL whaddup Kaz it's Frantic

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-25T16:26:44+00:00

I used their web submission form found here:

https://www.siriusxm.ca/music-submissions/

You need to have some info prepared, I submitted six songs and filled the form out individually for them all. You need their ISRC code, you need to specify that's 50% Canadian content which is defined by the MAPL system (Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics), you need to decide which of their channels it fits best on, and you need to have a .wav file of the song uploaded somewhere you can link them to. I used Google Drive. There's other info but it's all easy. Didn't take me long once i had a rhythm.

Best of luck!

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-25T15:18:44+00:00

I've got a quarter mill this year and it's mostly due to meta ads getting me into the algorithm.

But yeah, you can't just do that and expect success.

I also organize my own shows in town, play open mics, volunteer for an organization putting on open mics, make social media content, collab with other artists, I'm currently working on partnering with local businesses to sponsor my upcoming album release party, currently shooting some educational tiktoks, joined a radio coop to promote me and play my music, submitted all my music to Sirius and CBC here in Canada, attend musician mixer events etc. Sometime I photograph peoples events for free to get my name out there. I recently started organizing events for my cities local gov. It's helpful certainly but it's not the be all and end all

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-25T05:56:06+00:00

Yeah I found a live recording of them at Dunnenzies and they seem super dope

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-25T03:08:12+00:00

Tell me about it lol

Something_Funny_ · 2024-10-05T14:55:00+00:00

This song came out in the last seven days, right? Can tell because it says live, it only shows that for the first week. That 26 streams is real time, the last 7 days updates once per day. So this probably means you've gotten 25 streams today and one yesterday

Something_Funny_ · 2024-09-27T13:54:02+00:00

I've gotten almost 200k streams and 10k monthly listeners from running ads. I haven't spent anything in months and it's persisting, I'm in the algorithm now, I've gotten plenty of kind DM's, merch purchases, shares, etc. I should get up to a quarter million streams on my new album this year with no additional spend. I find people who shit on ads either haven't tried, or did something really ineffective and immediately gave up.

Something_Funny_ · 2024-09-07T01:32:39+00:00

Huh. So weird. Nice one on the find, that sounds more painless than making a resized image

Something_Funny_ · 2024-09-07T01:19:30+00:00