🎸cXc Music NFT Standard

Version: 1.0.0 Total Fields: 24 by: cXc.world

NEW : We have published more standards + moved the documentation to standards.cxc.world

Watch the Instructional Video on creating your Music NFT on WAX

There's also written instructions below

About this standard

The cXc Music NFT Standard works with the Atomichub and Neftyblocks to help any individual, collection, or application to make their own music NFT project.

This standard is a schema (more recently called "category" on atomichub.io) which allows you to make templates for Music NFTs.

The benefits of using this schema include forward compatibility (Geotags) getting artists plays that pay with traditional platform players, credits, links, and more.

There's no coding required. But you'll see the code below ready for changes if you'd rather exclude traditional players, or add extra audio fields. You can even make a music NFT from your phone.

This Schema exists within Atomic Asset's NFT standard on the atomicassets contract.

Feel free to use or modify this schema for any purposes in accordance with the license.

Check out our NFT collection using this standard here

Summary 🗞️

This standard includes:

Name of the NFT (Can be different than track title)

One audio field One video field Four images [Main, Back, Collection and Promo] One clip that can be anything used for a preview or extra media field of any type

Title [If different than name] Album name Track # [If it's just one track]

Any number of custom credits Any number of custom platform links

ISO Country code Readable locale Geotag as GeoJson Point

License Rarity

Technical Summary ⚙️

All media fields use IPFS. Fields labeled image can be uploaded through Atomichub.com. Pinata is an option to host files with IPFD with a free tier.

All other info fields are strings (except "track" is int64)

year is also a string in case there's a more accurate date desired or a range of years.

Rarity is filterable on many NFT marketplaces

License is for codes like "CC-BY", or can be used to declare a priviledge granted upon receiving NFT.

Geo 🌍

ISO country codes should follow ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (USA, COL, etc)

Locale string intended to be used in this format "City, County, State" or corresponding values for a given locality

geotag is a GeoJson point stored as a string

Field name	Type	Description
name	string	NFT name
img	image	Primary image / Cover image
audio	audio	Audio file IPFS hash
video	video	Music video file IPFS hash
clip	video	Additional video file IPFS hash
backimg	image	Back cover of album / single
promo	ipfs	Extra image or video for promo poster, QR code, etc
collectionimg	image	Extra image for Collection, optional
artist	string	The artist, if you prefer a separate field to putting with other credits
title	string	The actual title of the track
album	string	Title of the album
track	int64	Number of the track on the album
released	string	Date first released
about	string	Description field with info about
credits	string	Array of song credits
youtube	string	Youtube URL
spotify	string	Spotify URL
soundcloud	string	Soundcloud URL
platforms	string	A list of all platforms the music can be found, and socials if desired
nation	string	Three-letter ISO (USA, BRA, AUS, etc)
locale	string	Local locales (State, County, City in USA)
geotag	string	GeoJSON Point stored as string, format "lat,lng" (e.g., "37.7749,-122.4194"), or a "[lat,lng]" coordinate array (e.g., "[37.7749, -122.4194]")
license	string	Declare license, (Copyright, CC0, MIT, etc)
rarity	string	How scarce is this NFT? Abundant Common Uncommon Rare Epic Mythic Unique

To use the cXc Music NFT Standard

First, you'll need a collection.

If you're new, follow this guide for more info.

To add a Music NFT schema to your collection, you may:

1. Manually re-create the schema from the UI (Remember schema is called 'category' on atomichub) by adding each field in the table above. This is 'the long way'

or, do it almost instantly by:

1. Copy the code below using the copy icon in the top-right of the code. Paste the following array into the idata field using the Atomic Assets createschema action to create your own schema on Atomic Assets, and then create template from the schema for each NFT you release via Atomichub or Neftyblocks.

ℹ️ Important

Using this schema does NOT mean that each template (or NFT) must have every field filled, but you can only choose from fields in your future templates. You may add fields to the schema later, but not remove them. New fields will appear at the end (ugly), thus, best to modify this standard to your needs before deploying.

cXc Music Schema 🎸

Merged with Simple version (This is the Simple Version) Works with Atomichub UI out of the box. You can even avoid touching this code by using Create Schema on atomichub to replicate.

[
  {
    "name": "name",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "img",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "audio",
    "type": "ipfs"
  },
  {
    "name": "video",
    "type": "ipfs"
  },
  {
    "name": "clip",
    "type": "ipfs"
  },
  {
    "name": "backimg",
    "type": "image"
  },
  {
    "name": "promo",
    "type": "image"
  },
  {
    "name": "collectionimg",
    "type": "image"
  },
  {
    "name": "artist",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "title",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "album",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "track",
    "type": "int64"
  },
  {
    "name": "released",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "about",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "credits",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "youtube",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "spotify",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "soundcloud",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "platforms",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "nation",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "locale",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "geotag",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "license",
    "type": "string"
  },
  {
    "name": "rarity",
    "type": "string"
  }
]

Create a Template 🛠️ 🖼️.

Once you have your schema in place, use it to drop your own Music NFTs using tools like Atomichub and Neftyblocks.

Modify this schema 🛠️

The power is in your hands! You can add, remove, or change fields when making your own schema.

Ideas:

Artist - If you'd rather have your name here than in credits Multiple Audio fields - Duplicate the audio fields to include all songs on an album (DYOR on marketplace support) Metadata - Add custom metadata like the key, BPM, time, whatever you want

If you'd rather include all of your links in the Platform field, you can remove the Spotify, Soundcloud, and Youtube field.

Removing Youtube will also disable Youtube player from showing up on Atomichub and likely other marketplaces.

Power of the Schema ✨ 🧙‍♂️

Using this template ensures maximum forward-compatibility with music.cXc.world

There is no magical benefit (yet) of using this standard, just practical ones. Youtube plays can bring extra revenue, as will the links to other players. You may credit all involved, and geographic data opens up new use cases for your NFT.

In the future it's possible a mapp / dapp (like cXc) to allow users to register their own schemas that adhere to this standard, creating a Music-NFT exclusive platform that doesn't rely on accounts or collection names alone.

Evolution of the Schema 🚀 🛸

This schema will grow and evolve. Feel free to open issues on this repo with your suggestions.

If you translate to another blockchain or NFT standard, please send a pull request adding a file named .md in the main directory containing the code needed to deploy, or open an issue with the code and I can update the repo if you prefer.

Mini Change Log

1.0.0

Changed year to released Changed types to better work with atomichub's UI Improved explanation + added image

0.1.4

Added Additional clip and img fields Changed promo description to suggest video + image Merged Simple version, made Simple the only option. To use old version, change string to string[] and use. This isn't recommended as there's little benefit and it's not working well through the Atomichub website

0.1.3

Added artist, year, and collectionimg

0.1.2

Added rarity and license

0.1.1

Added track and album

~ Created with 💜 by cXc.world ~

Improvements to this standard were made possible by Wax Labs