I have tried many music streaming services of the alternative kind these past years. Never wanting to jump on the iTunes and spotify bandwagon I was thrilled when I found musicoin, only to discover that the platform was not really useable for me. Permissions were coming slow and even a totally altered remix of a batman theme song I uploaded was revoked though I had used not a single shred of the official track - just the notes of the theme put into midi, reworking it all.
I wished them well but I needed something better.
So I was thrilled when choon.co came around the corner, many of the former #SteemMusicAlliance excited members of the growing choon community that promised to reward their users with crypto for number of plays - "Notes" - that would eventually become tradeable on the Ethereum blockchain.
The site looked rather beta but was working well, and so I opted to port all my tracks onto my Choon Account to build my music portfolio, the one I had built over time participating in Steem Music Contests.
But much like with dTube I was a little shocked to find after months that somehow the website will not only not play my music anymore, it seems to be offline completely! Where are all my tracks? And where is the interface for that matter? Everything is blank.
Tried checking out the Twitter feed of Choon but the last pinned entry is from last year and since I won't sign up for Twitter I can't read the comments.
When Choon started out I wondered why they would choose ETH over EOS but now in their Twitter feed I see retweets of numerous "Emanate" Tweets promoting the EOS-based Music streaming platform. While I can't find anything official declaring a merger?
The Choon website is still offline and the Medium page has been pulled.
Weird.
Anybody know what is up with Choon? Have I missed anything or is the crypto space under attack, with the merging of more and more promising projects into a new kind of monopoly?
It reeks like the situation on Steem does to be honest and I sincerely hope I just missed some announcement or anything of the sort. Anybody know? And for that matter: What music streaming platform can you recommend from experience these days?
It would be so awesome to just be able to stay in a place for a while and I don't want to go back to Soundcloud really. Any insight is appreciated.
medium.com/choonhq