Auxio Google Play Release

Not doing this because I suddenly don't like F-Droid, but rather to advance my career skills.

This variant of Auxio will not have any proprietary components, just like the F-Droid release.
It'll probably require me to reformat the existing screenshots in some way. Not just to be more conventionally nice-looking, but also eliminating the copyright-ambiguous album art usage. The latter might be done by using album art from an artist that has given explicit approval, or making up some fake placeholder music. Latter is easier, so I'll probably do that.
Deal with whatever other kinds of guidelines google expects from me.

Sep 12 '23 20:09 OxygenCobalt

also eliminating the copyright-ambiguous album art usage. The latter might be done by using album art from an artist that has given explicit approval, or making up some fake placeholder music. Latter is easier, so I'll probably do that.

dumb idea but you could contact small indie musicians and say youll put their songs as the images as an 'ad'

Sep 12 '23 21:09 RustoMCSpit

dumb idea but you could contact small indie musicians and say youll put their songs as the images as an 'ad'

Me on my way to e-mail every artist on the RateYourMusic 2023 charts to use their likeness in funny rational music app

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Sep 14 '23 14:09 OxygenCobalt

Seems like any kind of "probably copyrighted" imagery is disallowed actually. So even indie cover art could get flagged without explicit approval from lawyers. I think I'm going to use unsplash stock images and made up names instead, as in the original issue. Even if those get flagged I can send the unsplash links and show that they are creative commons.

Sep 15 '23 18:09 OxygenCobalt

@OxygenCobalt I know NIN released 'Ghosts I-IV' and 'The Slip' under a creative commons non-commercial license. As far as I'm aware (and wikipedia claims this too), the license extends to the artwork as well.

Additionally, King Gizzard released their album Polygondwanaland to the public domain along with its artwork.

You could also obtain some albums from the FMA, but I'm unsure if the CC licenses extend to the art. VLC has some examples on their google play page which you could safely use.

Bonus: You could theoretically create parodies of BCNR's first album and singles since they used images from Unsplash. Or Phoenix's Alpha Zulu since the base image for the artwork is from an old painting. But probably not worth the effort, though.

Edit: Though, now that I think about it, most of these images would probably be flagged automatically by Google.