Dick, thanks for the long and considered reply. I'll explain my rationale for the original request.
Firstly the main concern is to get notification of likes/comments/remixes for band posts which I've been part of. To be fair, my proposed mechanism may not be the best answer to this. On a couple of occasions I've been part of projects which were posted by someone else but which were _not_ 'band' projects. In that case, I'm still interested in comments but even the band concept wouldn't help me.
Perhaps something like the 'add to collab watchlist' button would work - i.e I could monitor any arbitrary track?
On the notification to band followers, yes my main 'driver' for this is to stop having to worry about who in the band has the most followers so as to make sure it actually gets some listens! I take your point that followers of individual musicians may not be interested in complete band songs but that's not the way I wanted to use the band concept here. Rather, my intention was to use the 'band' concept to allow a couple of us to work on something together before posting it as a joint project in the hope of further remixes. The ways you might do that today are..
1) use a private band to collaborate but then 'publish' by creating a new tree with each individual posting their part as a remix of the one before.
Downsides: you have to choose an 'order' of posting, arrange all the remixes etc, coordinate properly to make sure they're posted in the right order.
2) Choose one member of the band to post the finished mix but then add each part as an HD option.
Downsides: Only one band member gets notifications. There's a bit of head-scratching to decide which band-member will draw more listens.
3) Post the finished mix as the 'band' but then add each part as an HD option.
Downsides: No followers/few listens (at least, until everyone has 'spammed' enough so that people know the band exists). No-one in the band gets any notifications of comments/likes.
P.S. Don't worry, I'm not really that bothered about collecting my 0,00000027c streaming royalty from my 101 (+45K!) listens ;-)
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GrooveEnth on October 20 2017 16:22