Sharing Your Music Online
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Topic: Sharing Your Music Online
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Subject: Sharing Your Music Online
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 21:38
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Hey, I was wondering what websites were good/effective for promoting your music online; Offering free downloads and sharing with other musicians, things of that nature. Can any of you other musicians help me out?
------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 22:03
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MySpace works pretty well for all of that.
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 10:16
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before myspace became the standard, soundclick was used alot. I'm not sure if it offers alot more than myspace but it's completely music based rather than more of the mixed social / whatever that myspace is. Another older resource is garageband (the site not the program) which offers lots of review chances from other musicians. I think the standard for selling CDs online for independents is still CD Baby. Those are the sites I've used. Others may give other ideas.
------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: The Lackey
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 08:58
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How do you download music from myspace? Ever since they changed the music interface I can't seem to download anything. Maybe I am too sleepy... music.download.com used to be cool, but they seem to be on holiday or are just ignoring me. soundclick is good because your song is up right away lastfm looks a bit promising ------------- https://oatmealstout.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - https://oatmealstout.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: The Lackey
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 09:00
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oh, and at the top of this forum is the sticky for http://www.mybandsmusic.com/ - http://www.mybandsmusic.com/ ------------- https://oatmealstout.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - https://oatmealstout.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 14:53
| I think last.fm works pretty well. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 31 2008 at 11:27
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Try http://www.4shared.com - www.4shared.com ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: November 09 2008 at 14:06
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Myspace is the most famous but it sounds really bad and for prog rock, as prog rock songs are often quite long, it's a real problem that we can't upload mp3 bigger than 10 mo! I tried a lot of sites, PureVolume, Soundclick, Virb, Audiostreet, Showcase Your Music and more but actually my favourite one is http://www.reverbnation.com/spleenarcana - ReverbNation There's different mp3 players, some cool widgets, a lot of stats... Give it a try ;) ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 11:21
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Thanks for the suggestions. I like last.fm al lot for this sort of thing. I'm wary about uploading music to myspace because I know that when you put something on facebook you lose the rights to what you put on (pictures, music, words). I'm worried that if I put a song on myspace they'll sell it without even asking! ------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 11:55
Are you sure about this? ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
MonkeyphoneAlex wrote:Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 12:08
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http://www.last.fm/music/MikeEnRegalia - http://www.last.fm/music/MikeEnRegalia Just a few demos ... still I'm glad about everyone who listens to them. The more people listen, the more the tracks appear in their automated radio player, which in turn means that more people listen to them etc..  ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Q6
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 12:09
Not sure where you read/heard this but its so wrong. Stop worrying and get your tunes online. ------------- http://www.paulcusick.co.uk - www.paulcusick.co.uk |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 12:23
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"By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."
You agree to this when you check that box in the user agreement to join facebook. ------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: Q6
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 13:02
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It says "you have the right" which means you can upload your own songs for them to basically broadcast your songs. You do not loose the rights to your songs. Otherwise all those major labels and artists who are online on all community websites would be giving away their crown jewels. Bottom line is they wont pay you Royalties. That'll be £250 please  Advice is free! Correct advice... well?? ------------- http://www.paulcusick.co.uk - www.paulcusick.co.uk |
Posted By: Q6
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 13:06
I would have to agree. I've tried several different ones and Reverbnation works for me. You can see mine at http://www.reverbnation.com/paulcusick - http://www.reverbnation.com/paulcusick ------------- http://www.paulcusick.co.uk - www.paulcusick.co.uk |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 13:15
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ReverbNation is really the best! There's a lot of reason for this!! But about Facebook, I read some articles about this copyright problem, it's the same for text and photographs... I don't really know what to think... ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 21:50
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I'm trying out Soundclick and last.fm. I'm going to take a look at reverbnation in a bit. Thanks again for the help, guys.
------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 04:25
"[Y]ou automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content [--]" Basically this means that you guarantee that you have the rights to the music you upload and you agree to give the same rights to the company. It doesn't say if you still have any rights to your music or not, but anyway they have the right to do just about anything they like with it. |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: November 19 2008 at 22:15
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ReverbNation seems Great so far. http://www.reverbnation.com/rockofthepotato ------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |