There are multiple radio stations associated with Second Life but they're not live. Also arithmetic makes it unlikely that you will ever be heard. Take four hundred performers, each with a five-minute song recorded, and it will take two-thousand minutes or almost a day and a half to listen once to each one.
Another approach is to broadcast continuously from a live venue in Second Life. The objective of the exercise is to advertise the stream on the open Internet so people can hear and feel Second Life music without needing to learn how to login or navigate. My hope from such an experiment is that it would serve as a 'taste test' and some will walk away but others will get curious. The curious ones we want.
This experiment will not solve the problem of getting heard on the radio as only one thing ever did that: play a lot of gigs.
So in doing performances every so often at this venue the musicians get some exposure and show Second Life in a good way to the world outside SL. This shouldn't be regarded as an open mike set as it's not going to serve SL very well if you do that. Open mike sets are fine but they're not representative of SL music, they're just part of it. You all may disagree and that's fine too. My intention is to pitch the concept and the reason. Whether anyone uses it or what they do with it is on you.
Another approach is to broadcast continuously from a live venue in Second Life. The objective of the exercise is to advertise the stream on the open Internet so people can hear and feel Second Life music without needing to learn how to login or navigate. My hope from such an experiment is that it would serve as a 'taste test' and some will walk away but others will get curious. The curious ones we want.
This experiment will not solve the problem of getting heard on the radio as only one thing ever did that: play a lot of gigs.
So in doing performances every so often at this venue the musicians get some exposure and show Second Life in a good way to the world outside SL. This shouldn't be regarded as an open mike set as it's not going to serve SL very well if you do that. Open mike sets are fine but they're not representative of SL music, they're just part of it. You all may disagree and that's fine too. My intention is to pitch the concept and the reason. Whether anyone uses it or what they do with it is on you.
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