#distribution (22 links)
- DistroKid distrokid.com
Upload your music for free to iTunes, Spotify and Google Play
- Withoutabox withoutabox.com
The world's largest independent film community
- Physical & Digital, Together at Last! « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
This makes me so happy. Bandcamp rock.
- » That Sony Meeting Song, by Toad songbytoad.com
"Columbia Records, part of Sony BMG, [...] invited [Winston's Zen] in to talk to them and suggested he bring along a couple of other bloggers and make something of a meeting out of it. So last Thursday [some MP3 bloggers] went along, the Sony people booked a table in a pub and we talked about stuff and drank ourselves into a stupour. And what did we achieve? Well honestly, I’d say not an awful lot, really." Worth reading despite that, though.
- ioda: independent online distribution alliance iodalliance.com
Via sideb0ard.
- The End of the Music Album as The Organizing Principle - MTT - Music Think Tank musicthinktank.com · Archived on
Gang of Four's Dave Allen on the album as arbitrary audio bundle. "Technically then, we can say that 1930 was the year that the organizing principle for the length of a popular music album was implemented, and with the advent of that organizing principle it is worth noting that musical artists had no control over the length of time their masterpiece would run; they were at the mercy of contemporary technology."
- Reassessing Your Definition of Illmatic « Bandcamp Blog blog.bandcamp.com
Bandcamp now does download codes. Ace. "Not just any download codes, mind you, but the sort you can email to your fans OR zap over to Moo for print-on-demand, great looking, and dirt cheap physical download cards."
- Dropcards | Create your own digital download cards dropcards.com
Very glad someone is doing this. Looks like a good service, but quite pricey and doesn't help satisfying instant gratification urge with online sales.
- MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track techcrunch.com
"So why is the experience just an 8/10? For now only U.S. users can access the new music content [...] there’s lots of work to do on the product itself. There’s no way to share public playlists, for example. And unlike iMeem, MySpace Music doesn’t yet offer the ability to embed the music player into other sites. Also, my browser crashed repeatedly tonight while I was testing the service." 8/10? Talk about ratings inflation.
- Mobile Phone Software & Applications :: Cascada Mobile cascadamobile.com
The easiest way to create and distribute mobile applications for free
- People's Music Store peoplesmusicstore.com
New mp3 shop with a twist; users set up their own shopfronts using site's catalogue. Ex-Bleep people involved, apparently.
Free. Could be dead handy. "No bandwidth costs: upload your content once, and we'll distribute and seed it for you."
- FATdrop - digital music services for record labels fatdrop.co.uk
Improve the way you send promos and get your pre-release music heard by the right people faster. Create, manage and deliver low-cost, high response, email marketing for each of your releases.
- 'Vinyl has been eliminated' | | Guardian Unlimited Arts arts.guardian.co.uk
Should any music be able to weather such a storm, it's reggae. If nothing else, its largely informal economy allows it to adapt much faster than the major labels in the US or Europe.
Some of you may have heard about Amato distribution going bust, but unless you understand the music industry you may have not quite understood the negative affect that this will have on dance music.
"The way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of bits is not the same way in which you make a desirable item of quality in the world of atoms. One cannot seek to replace the other. It simply jostles it about a bit in the mix of avail
Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.
- TuneCore: Welcome tunecore.com
TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns.
Users download songs, with the starting price at free. When downloads pick up for popular songs, the price starts to rise, all the way up to $0.99. If a song gets to $0.30 or so, you know its popular.