David Weiszfeld

it's a testament to the amount of turnover the music industry has, and how much knowledge remains sillowed. New people come in the industry, they think they're discovering 'new' problems, they imagine 'new' solutions, but often find out the hard way that these are structural issues that can't be 'quick fixed and - most of the time - that others have tried before. So they move on from the industry, or just from trying to change things to keep their jobs. They keep the learning to themselves (no one like to talk about failures) and give place to new people who will bring a 'let's change things mindset'... rince and repeat 🔁🔁🔁🔁 Reminds me how luck/proud I am that @soundcharts found it's initial audience and is still growing 8years into this adventure

Quick-action shortcuts are finally in the @soundcharts sidebar.

@sorenblank @hsnice16 @tailwindcss @Media that's a lot compared to vanilla....

@hsnice16 @tailwindcss yess. tailwindcss generates similar css: .group-hover\:-translate-y-6 { &:is(:where(.group):hover *) { @media (hover: hover) { --tw-translate-y: calc(var(--spacing) translate: var(--tw-translate-x) var(--tw-translate-y); } } }

you can achieve this using the @tailwindcss `group` class on parent and `group-hover` variant on target. <div class="group"> <div class="group-hover:translate-y-6"/> </div> here is a breakdown of the target element within an exaggerated oversized parent wrapper.

@tunguz everything is a wrapper

Do you guys remember Perplexity? What was that all about?

@ElizabethHolmes can't tell if this is a meme account or not, every interaction is cringe

Today I learned I have more time in prison than the 4 of them combined.

@bishara craftsmanship culture pushed to an extreme. best bread, best pizza, best audiophile products, best knifes, best technical guitarists etc...

can someone explain to me why the pizza in Japan is the best pizza I’ve ever had?

@wilhelmscreamin that's just ignorant, contemplation is also an emotion to feel as a group

if you are a band you have no business playing live unless your music is fun to jump up and down to

@business iTunes remains the easiest way to buy digital music... oddly but surely

Over 80% of iTunes users are not subscribed to Apple Music, representing an untapped market bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

@OasisMania @NoelGallagher @liamgallagher if you're British from the 70/80s then yeah late Brit pop from the 90s might be

"The most influential record of all time is 'Never Mind The Bollocks'. People are still working now in the music business because of that record, It’s the absolute left turn. There is no argument, It cannot be bettered. It’s scientifically factual". - Noel Gallagher

@DattaAmeet you improve what you measure, smart to bring transparency to this industry wide issue

This is a downhill trajectory Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent - Music Ally musically.com/2026/01/29/dee…

@enzomazza this is bad, good for them for bringing transparency!

Deezer says up to 85% of its AI-music streams are now fraudulent - Music Ally musically.com/2026/01/29/dee…

@GregWasik from which source?

wow - I asked Claude to help set up an automated process to scrape some music event data (with a URL made just for me) from one website and post it to a wordpress-backend site I own - it actually wrote a setup guide for me when done lol

@gizalovespizza youtu.be/9FnO3igOkOk?si…

@weiszfeld You sound like the human equivalent of a Spotify Wrapped slide that only shows boardroom metrics.. “Artists A&R their own projects” — yeah, they also sign 360 deals that own their merch, their tour bus air freshener, and probably the childhood dog they wrote a song about in 2012.

Ever wonder why your fave artist's album drops with 20 features? Labels force collabs to game Spotify algorithms — it's not creativity, it's playlist payola 2.0. #MusicIndustrySecrets

@gizalovespizza you underestimate the business savviness and desire to break that most artists have. most Artists a&r their own projects, and most label a&r don't make records, they find records

@weiszfeld Yeah David, keep defending the sanctity of the 18-feature deluxe edition. Someone’s gotta stand up for the algo while the rest of us are out here mourning when a good artist used to drop a clean 10-track LP without needing a Fortnite lobby worth of guests.

@wadadawadada @MaciejKoterba @fonyspace @BagsApp @treegens I'm not, I'm just rejecting music nfts, and lack of interoperability. it's innovation in the wrong direction, value creation should always be aligned with the music, not the wrapper.

That’s exactly why a player like FONY was built - so people can actually use their assets in a convenient way. You have to understand that blockchain is still an experimental field. We’ve been given a new technology, but not everyone yet understands how to apply it properly, so enthusiasts keep exploring different ways to improve it. You’re appealing to old ways of music listening, but then why is it VLC and not a vinyl turntable, if you fundamentally reject anything new?

I’m building @fonyspace as a tool I actually want to use myself everyday. Today we’re launching a funding campaign on @BagsApp to make our web3 music player better - and keep it free forever. No paywalls. No data selling. No investor-driven compromises. Just a player that respects users.

@NO_NAcharts huge

Genius chart “work” Rap #74 global 🌏 [New] #nona_work #no_na

@zilevandamme it's a feature, not a bug, they're not trying to pull you in the algorithmic rabbit hole. instead of narrowing one's culture by going deep in one direction, they give you the opportunity to go every direction. it's rare to see amongst tech giants post 2020

Not to be political but YouTube Music is great. It has amazing playlists and its algorithm is actually intuitive. Sometimes I think Apple Music doesn’t know me at all. After all of that data I have fed you for over a decade? The betrayal. It may be my first Apple divorce. Maybe.

@mikeherreraTD @Akon @mikeherrerapod @mxpx what matters is the hit, the rest is logistics. he had huge global pop hits, wildly popular amongst kids and adults. ringtones were just the lowest hanging fruits at that precise time.

Back in the day @akon was on the cutting edge of the music business and the cornerstone was #ringtones !! Did you ever buy your ringtones?

@UK_Music @KevinBrennanMP how about a deferred vat, paid only if the recording turns a profit?

"Recording studios are very much part of the R&D of the music industry." - Lord @KevinBrennanMP has called on the Government to protect our world class recording studios from soaring and hugely damaging business rates.

so you own a music nft, but you can't play it like a wav or aiff or mp3 file ? why would you buy a file you can't play ... music is like water, should be fluid and everywhere - not buying a piece of nfts that you have sitting on a shelf without any way to play it and share it around .... after years of nft hype I still find the concept highly bizarre ... music is the worst type of art to "collect" it's not a unique painting, sculture, it's audio...

@weiszfeld @wadadawadada @fonyspace @BagsApp @treegens Sorry I don’t understand your comment. If you are a music NFT collector, then you would like to listen to them. Right now that’s complicated, so having a player for that is great.