Daily Refrain

I am in a quandary! Over the past two days, my amount of subscribers has almost doubled, which is awesome – but these newcomers are about to be rewarded with nine days of silence.

(If you haven’t heard #13 yet, it explains that I’m taking every fourth week off. We’ve just finished the third week.)

This doesn’t seem fair to them, and on a selfish level it also reduces the chance that checking the site will become a habit. Basically it’s making me rethink the decision. As I see it, my options at the moment are:

1. Three-weeks-on, one-week-off. It’s what I’m running with at the moment, but it’s also the option that gives listeners the greatest opportunity to forget about the site and never return.

2. Doing it every week, but skipping Wednesdays in addition to the weekends. My main problem with this is that it messes up the name of the project.

3. Doing it every day, every week, but artificially limiting how long I allow myself to spend on a track. The obvious risk here is that the quality of the songs could (and probably would) take a dive.

So please weigh in, I’d like that. Either say which of the three you’d prefer, or suggest other options altogether. I’m open to ideas.

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On another note, my good friend and musical almost-rival Quinn Fox found himself inspired by this site, and set out to do a song-a-day project of his own. The result is “Survived The Cold War,” which I suppose I’d call an EP. It is excellent, and freely downloadable in MP3 format.

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Speaking of MP3s, I’ve had a few people ask why I don’t post them, instead releasing these songs exclusively as YouTube videos. Simply put, it’s for the hits. The way I see it, getting decent view counts on YouTube is pretty much my one chance of gaining an audience for this project (side note: it helps a lot if people rate the videos too ), and as much as I’d like to make MP3s available – they sound a lot better, for one thing – I’d be robbing myself of views.

Once the view count for a song reaches a certain amount I’ll make its MP3 available, though. So yeah, I’m holding them for ransom. Ruthless, I am.

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Last of all, I’m probably going to add a ‘Previous Work’ section to the sidebar over the next week or so, with some earlier, non-Daily Refrainy songs. I might not, but keep an eye out for it anyway.

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OK, that was ridiculously long. This is why I don’t blog. Perhaps I should vlog instead, though I’d have to buy an egg timer or stopwatch or something. If you’ve read all of this, then thanks! If you didn’t, then thanks for reading this sentence at least.

And thanks for being here at all. I hope you’re enjoying the music.