It looks like there are more and more people out there who are desperately waiting for the RjDj release. I am sorry we kept you all waiting and out of the loop for quite a while but the closer we get to the release the more hectic things get here in the RjDj land. So here is the overdue update:
It took us until this week to get everything through to the app store. We had to adjust our binary once and resubmitted after the Vienna sprint. The good news is that Apple accepted the RjDj application this week.
So everyone is a happy chap here but you still need to hold your horses for a bit longer. Why is that?
In the last couple of weeks i met a lot of people and i had a lot of discussions with artists, developers, thinkers and makers. All in all, i re-evaluated our position and decided to react in the following way:
1. We are releasing two RjDj applications. “RjDj single” and “RjDj album”
2. RjDj single is a full RjDj player bundled with one scene for free.
3. RjDj album is a full RjDj player, bundled with 6 scenes for $2,99
4. We updated the app already and hope we will get through apple’s review process fast.
Here are the details:
On the Vienna sprint i had a lot of discussions with artists doing RjDj scenes. We all have one thing in common which is the understanding that we are pushing the reactive music genre by featuring artists and their content on RjDj. Currently every artist gets credits for his scenes and we are trying to promote artists wherever we can. On the sprint in Vienna it became pretty clear that some artists want to explore the possibilities of charging for the scenes they produce. Of course we fully support this because we think that RjDj scenes are as cool as any music title you can get via itunes for 0,99$ per song.
Later that week i met with Stefan Glaenzer, Christian Lutz and Peter Read. When i explained to them that most of the RjDj artists can only work on scenes during the sprints because that is the only time they have access to Iphones (yes, most people still don’t have Iphones ;-), it became obvious that we have to provide a method for artists to get more than credits out of producing mind blowing hearing sensations on RjDj.
Our solution for this problem is to provide one RjDj scene as a free promotion single for the first RjDj album. The album features 5 scenes + the free promotion scene. The album and the single are both full featured RjDj applications. The only difference is that we bundled the single release with one scene and the album with 6 scenes.
We are currently looking into the artist share. The idea is to keep it as close to what is happening in the music sector as possible. Obviously, by downloading the RjDj album release you will support the artists, apple, and us. I can ensure you that the artists and us are absolutely in need of your support and i hope apple will invest the money and give us more cool stuff like the Iphone and Itouch.
The RjDj player stays free and we start providing free and fee scenes at the same time. We are very, very curious how this all works out.
We will also have some announcements for the people who want to join us developing RjDj on an open source basis soon.
In any case, i hope the next weeks will be less hectic ;-)
RjDj was born as an iphone application on a friday, october 10, 2008 about 2pm gmt. The first day was naturally quite exciting. Before going into details, let us give you some links so you know who RjDj is.
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