At robonobo our purpose is to make money for artists while delivering convenience and delight to users. We're hard at work on our artist/rights holder system which will control distribution of copyrighted material throughout the network and let you sell music through the app.
Our system will let you upload your tracks manually, or will integrate with your existing music repositories.
Our artist system takes your music and makes a 'fingerprint' of each track. This allows us to spot different track versions including those at different bitrates and in different formats.
Users seeing these tracks in their friends' libraries and playlists will then be played a demo version of the track, with an option to purchase directly through the app. Artists have complete control over pricing.
Even if a user shares a pirated copy of a track, their friends will see the legitimate version and be able to purchase it. Users will be shown tracks by artists already in their collection, so that if they pirated a track and liked it, they can purchase other tracks easily.
By harnessing recommendations and offering more convenience than illegal channels, robonobo will let artists make money from piracy.
Our social features mean that you can easily integrate existing online communities with robonobo, to bring your fanbase closer together and to drive them to support you by purchasing music.
Our reporting tools will tell you who is recommending your music the most, and which geographical areas are hotspots for your fans.
