In The Lab

It’s been over a year since I switched to streaming some of my DJ sets to Twitch. I landed there for a variety of reasons but here are the key points.

Twitch wasn’t new to streaming. Having served the gaming community for a long stretch, they had much infrastructure already in place and that meant absorbing a lot of newcomers wasn’t too much of a heavy lift as it was for many other platforms expanding into that space in the middle of a pandemic.

Their overall sound and video quality in-stream was equal to or better than most of their nearest competitors.

The part where they struggled with the most was structuring their copyright compliance so that it fit what deejays do. After a few hiccups they also seem to have landed in a very good position there as well. The only platform that might be better positioned in this arena might be Mixcloud. Interestingly though, they have had some significant growing pains in the other two areas I mentioned above.

So in an effort to grow on Twitch and to satisfy all you voyeurs, this month I will start doing periodic live streams while I’m creating new music. Here’s your chance to get a peek into a part of my creative process. This is an addition to my DJ sets that I stream on that platform.

Twitch.tv/musicofstylo

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Over On Twitch

After a few months bouncing around with live streaming on a few other platforms, back in the fall of 2020 I settled on Twitch.

It was a easy decision. The sound quality is superb and the interface is friendly enough. The bonus was that for the most part the way the copyright compliance is structured plays nicely with DJs (for the most part). It certainly didn’t start off that way with one day a stream would be fine and the next day not so much.

I have been producing previews of the BSB show over there before they are distributed through podcast channels and prior to that I did the Stay House series.

Stay House is back as a pop up series. Check out the latest broadcast below.

Press Play! Listen and watch the latest Stay House on Twitch

Stay House Has Moved

Yep, I have moved Stay House (again). Hopefully, this will be the last time for as long as we are being affected by this pandemic, the reason I started so much live streaming in the first place.

Mixcloud provided a nice home. It will remain my home for pre-recorded mixes as it is still the best place on the net where the copyright licensing is proper. Take downs were happening on Facebook and Instagram in the middle of live streams. Thus the move to Mixcloud for those performances.

But after some changes that happened on the primarily gaming platform of Twitch permitting DJs range without less take-downs, I decided again to move again. After a test broadcast, it seems we are in for some serious plusses.

The video part of the stream was much more stable and the audio quality was also impressively better. The first was expected. The second was not.

See my event page for the upcoming schedule.

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