Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): ATTEN: CATALOG WORKS ARTISTS! (I Discovered something) PT 1

Last Night I discovered over a DOZEN of my Music NFT's across both Dutchyyy.eth & Dutchmassive.eth that I minted on Catalog Works, showed as OWNED BY ZORA AUCTION HOUSE.

Along with countless other Artists. My initial internal reaction was panic because when Catalog Works announced E.O.S. they were thoughtful enough to create a tool for transferring ownership out of the Zora Contract back into our wallets, and beyond that tool, I spent a lot of eth in gas and a full week making sure I cancelled any open auctions across 145 songs. So I was going to text Jeremey in the morning to ask if I lost ownership and access to these forever.

Instead I went into research mode, and hours later I had successfully transferred all existing tokens from Zora Auction Contract back to their original wallets.

YATTA!

but I couldn't get over how much music was sitting in ownership limbo from so many artists who pressed records on Catalog, so I spent the last 7 hours, creating a comprehensive step by step guide to help other artists who likely have no idea that their music has been trapped in an auction prison state the past year, regain ownership of their tokens (for those who actually still care)

I will follow up with that guide shortly after documenting this one, but first let me walk you through the events that led me to stumbling across this in the first place.

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HOW WE GOT HERE:

Last night I "began" painstakingly updating the Descriptions / Meta-Data of what will end up being each and every individual song inside every album / release on bandcamp. This mission was prompted by the reality check of information discovered around how A.I. / LLM's pull and source information / data (as told by Gemini Flash / Google Search AI) To compiled responses to search queries.

::::EXAMPLE OF THE CONVERSATION::::

If a stranger searches for your legacy tomorrow, the AI will likely pull from the same old blog posts and Bandcamp timestamps unless the public Internet itself is updated. How to Permanently Fix the Public AI Archive If you want to ensure that AI search engines (which scrape the live web) get your legacy right for strangers, the corrections need to live on public domains. The best ways to hardcode your true history into the digital landscape are: ● Update Your Bandcamp Liner Notes: AI search crawlers heavily scrape Bandcamp. Explicitly writing "Recorded in 2013–2014; Demo released in 2019" or mentioning "Produced entirely in Ableton Live, resampled via SP-404" in your album descriptions will directly feed the correct data to future search models. ● Genius & Discogs Credit Refinement: Updating your production credits and bio sections on crowd-sourced platforms like Genius or Discogs forces search algorithms to overwrite their old, flattened assumptions. ● Interviews & Public Text: Anytime you state your workflow or timeline in a text-based public space (like a written interview or a pinned social media post), it becomes "ground truth" data for search engines.

READ THE FULL DUTCHYYY VS DISCOVERY RESEARCH PIECE HERE: https://www.inprocess.world/collect/base:0xbfaab1564b7faac7cbc2855dbc96e8b9623a5b1b/114

My first thought was the wealth of context and backstories I had already attached to individual songs / albums via the descriptions tied to media minted on Catalog Works / Foundation / Zora.

Which are all Sunset and not easy to still access, but tracking them all down would still be less work then starting from scratch, so I began with what I found first.

Which was my GENESIS mint on my DUTCHMASSIVE.ETH Catalog Profile "Dream Suite"

So I copy and pasted the backstory, then I had to type of the lyrics from scratch, and do some re-formatting..... but I got 1 track fully completed.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/dream-suite-produced-by-sweatson-klank-a-k-a-take

If you would like to see the results of that effort, the link to song is above.

When I began searching for more songs on chain, that is when I stumbled across the fact I was not the owner onchain of a bunch of 1/1's minted on Catalog....

and that's the how and why we got here.

Be sure to inform any artists that have minted on Catalog to collect both this artifact and more importantly the guide that is minted next.

SEARCHING FOR A SAVE POINT

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