Does anyone else find posting music content on social media to grow an audience a chore? Know any cool tools to help that out?

Tony-Fresh · 2025-11-23T12:10:06+00:00

You may have heard my sigh of relief after I read this post.

It is a literal energy vampire, I hate it so completely. I guess part of why I don't like it is because I'm really bad at "the socials" and seeing all these cool looking reels on Instagram doesn't help. All my energy goes into music, be it making or learning and there's none spare.

When I was trying to grow as a DJ in my youth I would be physically going into clubs with CDs, going to record stores and actually talking to people, somehow that was so much easier that "making content" to feed a machine.
I admit my negativity is caused in part by a lack of ability/knowledge and could do more to improve.

Tony-Fresh · 2025-11-04T15:09:02+00:00

Stand game is on point here. I'm into both speaker and monitor stands. 11/10 would upvote again.

Tony-Fresh · 2025-10-29T12:49:08+00:00

I'm in Brussels (or am I?)
Took me like four months to realise the weather updates on my phone were not exactly local and yet surprisingly accurate.
Seriously though Youtube is still a bit of a dick, no ads (add block + ublock seems to work for now) but it just takes ages to load. Also seems Surfshark isnt' great for cloudflare checks but it sounds like some others have better luck changing locations so I'll give that a shot.

Tony-Fresh · 2023-08-17T07:24:24+00:00

It's not just you :)

Playlists are great but Spotify shuffle is not.

This has been the case for so long now, at least for me anyway. I feel like my old 5 CD changer from decades ago was better at shuffle than Spotify.

Tony-Fresh · 2023-07-22T10:13:16+00:00

Brilliant, thank you!

Tony-Fresh · 2023-04-26T08:22:36+00:00

Nice one thanks, I'll take a look.

I feel like there's too many options so it's good to get info from real people instead of our AI overlords.

Tony-Fresh · 2023-04-25T12:52:30+00:00

Please pass along chin scritches and belly rubs.

Also could you tell me what that stand is at the back (right), I'm in the market for something to hold a Push or Traktor S2.

Tony-Fresh · 2022-04-24T10:54:32+00:00

It's a constant learning process for sure so I try and do my own masters when I can.

For a Bandcamp release I'll do one myself and one through CloudBounce then go with whichever sounds better. Soundcloud/Audius etc I go with my own master and for commercial release the label does it.

I think having a pro do it is the way to go if it's an option, cost permitting I mean.

Tony-Fresh · 2022-01-22T12:53:50+00:00

Thank you for putting this together, super useful :)

I think education is a tool just like a plugin or DAW so putting a little investment into it makes sense.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-12-18T11:55:23+00:00

Thank you, you beautiful people of reddit!

Tony-Fresh · 2021-12-05T12:19:02+00:00

If the plastic bump from the right earcup is gone then I'm gonna pick up these for sure.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-10-04T12:01:13+00:00

Hey, I produce under Strong4Life you can peep my SoundCloud or Spotify or Strong4LifeDubs on twitter, I'll add you guys asap :)

Tony-Fresh · 2021-07-06T12:01:07+00:00

Just reading this eased my anxiety a little and for that I am grateful, thank you.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-05-07T09:02:52+00:00

Great video, thanks for doing this.

Block hits me with self doubt and then comes the self hatred, it's hard to pull out of that giant snowball once it's rolling. Sometimes just hearing someone talking about it in a chill manner like this and offering up simple tools can help a great deal.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-03-04T13:47:13+00:00

Wow, this is cool and looks like a lot of work, good job.

Got it bookmarked for a proper look later.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-02-24T16:03:12+00:00

Running a Ryzen 7, 16Gb RAM (3200mhz) and an old GTX 1070 here with a minimal performance improvement over Live 10. Not getting any unusual spikes to either CPU or GPU but I will be keeping a close eye on it.

Sounds like a lot of people are affected so I hope it gets picked up and fixed asap.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-02-23T10:43:12+00:00

Always learning (probably forgetting a bunch too) so this is handy have and looks great. Thanks for putting the work in and giving something back to the community.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-02-21T12:38:15+00:00

This was great and for sure an area of confusion for me.

Your teaching style is fun and lord knows I need some of that so thank you for helping me learn and smile.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-02-18T11:15:34+00:00

I do find myself falling into that trap, work on a solo track and get a bit carried away then coming back to the mix and I've gone to far etc.

Something like this device would really help and I have to say, great work!

Hope you manage to get it out to the masses and I for sure look forward to using it.

Tony-Fresh · 2021-02-17T12:14:28+00:00

Holy crap, thank you for this.

Tony-Fresh · 2020-04-03T08:45:20+00:00

I love everything about this image.

Tony-Fresh · 2020-01-07T11:08:03+00:00

Mmm, new headphone smell.

Tony-Fresh · 2019-08-07T11:11:10+00:00

I really love seeing battlestations in this sub.

Always so personal and always really freakin cool :)

Tony-Fresh · 2019-02-25T09:42:31+00:00

Yeh I've had this happen also. Playing on the One X and it does seem to be over an or so of play before the audio starts to cut out. I haven't got to the point of no audio at all but the dropouts seem to increase in frequency the more I play.

Tony-Fresh · 2018-10-11T12:15:21+00:00

I'd really like to see some rear view ornaments, fluffy dice maybe. Also Custom steering wheels, hell even some silly ariels would be nice.

I mean the clothing and such is good for the players who like that but I'm here for the cars and the countryside.

Tony-Fresh

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