{"id":387,"date":"2003-11-25T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/truefire\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T19:50:15","slug":"truefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/truefire\/","title":{"rendered":"truefire"},"content":{"rendered":"

to add a little spice to the options of musicians to get their music out, i thought i’d take a little time to explore truefire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

truefire lets creative people self-publish and provides a marketplace for “literature, visual arts, original music, music instruction and reference.”<\/p>\n

truefire comes to this self-publishing business from a [relatively] long history of music education (10 years or so). so, the truefire twist is its core of music instruction – and this has some interesting potential. the emphasis on education and participation extends to “tfu” – the true fire university.<\/p>\n

at the moment, there are 87 (alternative) + 156 (blues) + 83 (classical) + 50 (country) + 44 (electronic) +25 (hiphop\/r&b) + 130 (jazz\/fusion) + 244 (rock) + 89 (world\/folk) + 37 (industrial) + 50 (pop), or about 1000 tracks available on truefire.<\/p>\n

while i couldn’t find an age for the truefire self-publishing option, i do have some concern about growth. with only 1000 tracks, and many of them free, it’s got a way to go to find sustainable revenue from track sales. on the upside, that’s not the core model, so they’re not depending on track sales to stay in business.<\/p>\n

the site also has a pseudo-money system to help encourage participants to keep things at truefire moving. i always have some reservations about not-quite-money systems.<\/p>\n

a few others have made comments: metafilter<\/a>, john stahl<\/a>, lingosphere<\/a>, i breathe music<\/a>, even the american library association has a few (not so kind) words<\/a> – “one of many questionable publishing sites”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

to add a little spice to the options of musicians to get their music out, i thought i’d take a little time to explore truefire. truefire lets creative people self-publish and provides a marketplace for “literature, visual arts, original music, music instruction and reference.” truefire comes to this self-publishing business from a [relatively] long history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}