Tom Ray

I'm an open-source musician in the band Lorenzo's Music (npub10u0…x5et) and I also draw webcomics and sell vintage toys, games, and books

Personal website: https://www.tomrayswebsite.com
Band Website: https://www.lorenzosmusic.com
Comics Website: https://www.homemadecartoons.com
Vintage Website: https://www.thepopcultureroadshow.com

Last Notes

2025-11-14 20:44:50 UTC

Someone posted a suggestion for music streaming: Base it on time listened not plays. 🤔
Should a 3-minute song get the same amount of royalties as a 10-minute track?

2025-11-03 21:46:05 UTC

I've been thinking about music streaming, and if you could change one thing about music streaming services, what would it be?

2025-10-31 17:23:52 UTC

Last week was interesting! 😅 I promised to run a 10-hour music stream for the Ubuntu Summit. Had to figure out how to stream 8-hours of Creative Commons music, pull audio from an Icecast server, AND display real-time artist attribution (after a plugin didn't work!).
See how a script saved the day in my new vlog: https://www.tomrayswebsite.com/2025/10/how-i-managed-to-put-together-10-hour.html
#OpenSource #CreativeCommons #OBS #LiveStream #UbuntuSummit #vlog

2025-09-21 21:43:46 UTC

Record a performance for the Ubuntu summit in October! Fill out the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5jrBUhfSwj4txwWv5Ei1_6Cma4rQW5Uddsi0yvgcLIB-KYQ/viewform?usp=header
#music #ubuntu #linux #opensource #creativecommons
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/244/467/325/851/525/original/b854688193bf2e5e.mp4

2025-09-07 19:03:24 UTC

What does it take to throw an online music event? I think I'm going to try and find out 🤔

2025-08-01 22:57:00 UTC

Is it possible to run @npub19jk…pymw locally on my Linux laptop to test it out? I know I could look it up but I thought I would ask first 😊 #lazyweb

2025-07-28 03:16:52 UTC

Adding payments to my self hosted music site in Faircamp. Watch the full video on YouTube https://yt.openinapp.co/4kqr7
#music #musician #opensource #staticsitegenerator
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/928/684/337/690/580/original/67b74e45749c0705.mp4

2025-07-17 20:02:23 UTC

I got a new vlog post and at one point I go off on a tangent rant about the annoyance of music distribution. 😁 You can watch the full episode on YouTube https://yt.openinapp.co/27mde
#musician #songwriter #vlog
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/870/352/791/555/031/original/5450d6d485a348c5.mp4

2025-03-03 23:01:40 UTC

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I would need to be sold on this cuz right now I feel like the bot accounts are my least favorite part of the fediverse 😁