Splic - Prelude

deriv. Splice

verb - join or connect by interweaving the strands at the ends.

Prelude

noun - an introductory piece of music, the first movement of a suite.

Now lets try to make sense of this.

About Splic & The Mission

Ideas rise fast and fall faster. Apps get boring by the second. We're not trying to build an app. This isn't another flappy birds. We're trying to promote a concept. A concept, explained later, that we call open source music. Splic is not really an app.

It's a tool, to implement this concept.

Before we can explain what Splic really is we'd like to give a feel of what it does and what's new. Imagine you have an idea for a song. Any idea, could be lyrics for a song, notes to a particular solo or even just a concept, anything. On this app, you have a network of musicians. Just like those freelancing websites, you pitch a part of the idea and the type of musicians you need for your piece. Musicians from around the world send in their versions of the content (notes) you uploaded for their part. Based on these choices you select a permutation that works for you. You send them the entire content of the song, they record their part and send it to you. You along with your musicians, mix all the tracks sent in, to create a finished piece. This is the basic concept of a virtual band. Musicians can use this app to record as well as mix on a common deck to create a band-like arrangement and make music.

Further each project is open (once completed) for musicians everywhere to listen to or even mix around (further creating their own versions). Each song is stored in its multi track format. Imagine you liked a particular song. But just the beats and the instrumental parts. You find the vocals really annoying. Using this app, since the songs are stored in its multi track format, you can simply remove the vocals track from the song. Further, you could exchange it with a vocals track from another song easily.

Using this app, you could create a hundred versions of the same song. You could create hundred versions of hundred different songs. The amount of music that exists in the world shall rise exponentially once this app starts dominating.

There is no point reinventing the wheel. On a large enough scale, a single man's achievements stop mattering. And all that's necessary is the growth of mankind. In the music aspect, it seems more efficient to release music in its open state (multi track format, editable), for the world to use, to create richer music.

Thus, Splic is about promoting this concept that we call open source music. Imagine if this app achieves world domination, artists from all over the world shall use this app to create or release music. Imagine open music becomes a standard. Imagine one powerful app taking care of every aspect related to the word music.

Planned Features

Splic is a super app meant to take care of broadly three components of music:

• Create
• Play
• Discover

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1. Create

• 1.1 Solo Project
  • 1.1.1 Record and mix
  • 1.1.2 Mix
• 1.2 Along
  • 1.2.1 Play along
  • 1.2.2 Record along
• 1.3 Virtual Band
  • 1.3.1 Start a band
  • 1.3.2 Auditions
  • 1.3.3 Central storage and mixing
  • 1.3.4 Publish projects
• 1.4 Groups
  • 1.4.1 Topic-wise Forum
  • 1.4.2 Polls for contests
  • 1.4.3 Upload music
  • 1.4.4 Fork music
• 1.5 Challenges
  • 1.5.1 Play along (like guitar hero)
  • 1.5.2 One on one
  • 1.5.3 Tournaments
  • 1.5.4 High score games
    
    

2. Play

• 2.1 Basic music playing features
  • 2.1.1 Play, pause, stop, change
  • 2.1.2 Views
  • 2.1.3 Search
  • 2.1.4 Shuffle
• 2.2 Playlists
  • 2.2.1 Create/edit playlists
  • 2.2.2 Create/edit smart playlists
• 2.3 Taste feature
• 2.4 Timeline
  • 2.4.1 Personal History
  • 2.4.2 Taste graphs
  • 2.4.3 Time search
• 2.5 Value feature
• 2.6 Moocha
  
  

3. Discover

• 3.1 Search
• 3.2 Browse
  • 3.2.1 Categories
  • 3.2.2 Filters
• 3.3 Fork
  • 3.3.1 Version control
• 3.4 Stats and reports

Note: We know that this isn't the most comprehensive or explicit list ever; please feel free to reach out to us if you feel like reading the detailed documentation.

We are looking for people!

Splic is a very large scale project, still in its planning phases. However, to make it so, we'll need all the help we can get. If any part of this project intrigues you, send us an email at [admin@splic.xyz][4b9d5d0a]. [4b9d5d0a]: mailto:admin@splic.xyz "Splic Collaboration" We are nice people to talk to!