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leflaw	Date: December 14, 2004 @ 11:12 AM well, here is where you can tell us your experiences with on line music distribution .
mahesh5ive	Date: December 16, 2004 @ 10:23 AM i found DM a great site with lot of people to review my stuff this place is like home to me
blacklieder	Date: December 19, 2004 @ 10:50 PM OMD list: CD Baby - Still in the physical realm, but a way to sell CDs online. So far, I've sold every CD I've sent to them...all 5 of them! The Orchard - I just started the paper work for this OMD. I went to a BMI sponsored workshop on digi distribution, and many consider it the $$$ maker of the future for artists. The Orchard will give you $.70 per every dollar on your product sold. Their contract is non-exclusive, so you can distribute with others as well. Will let you know how I fare. Oh, BTW, there is a processing fee. I guess it costs money to make money. ITunes- I believe I heard someone say that ITunes is negotiating downloading deal with record companies on all levels - majors and indies, that involves $.65 per dollar on their site. ITunes charges $.99 per song; Apple is making money from it, and maybe us artists can too. I'm checking this one out tonight. I gotta tell ya, tho, I feel real promise with this. If done correctly, I think a lot of $$$ can be made.
Yippee	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 10:07 PM These are great resource link for a listing of OMDs: http://compo10.com/MusicHosts.htm
Yippee	Date: December 20, 2004 @ 10:10 PM http://www.armydiller.com/musichosting.htm and http://www.natalie-brown.com/forartists.htm
stefwinter	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 10:45 AM I can only recommend www.mixed-tape.com . It's a compilation of high quality tracks from a lot of genres. If they (Mercedes-Benz !!)choose your track you have high exposure guaranteed. Good luck!
davw	Date: February 20, 2005 @ 5:48 AM I thought OMD stood for Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark -- oh how things change
lisadebenedi...	Date: February 20, 2005 @ 4:22 PM http://www.magnatune.com "we are not evil."
Spectrum7	Date: February 23, 2005 @ 9:21 PM dont forget abour OPSOUND, great for people who like to remix.
dagreen	Date: April 26, 2005 @ 2:33 PM downloads.com is also cool for wide spread popularity!
DeadraveN	Date: April 29, 2005 @ 2:22 AM I also recommend download.com. Great Site with a great community on their boards. I get 100x more downloads there than anywhere else.
DjInsertCool...	Date: May 21, 2005 @ 10:24 PM On a more recent post there is a guy (jordonthegreat I think) who went to like 7 or 8 different OMD's and rated the ease of use for getting an account set up, it's awsome!
Alecs	Date: June 6, 2005 @ 9:17 AM not sure how these guys are quite legal but: http://home.comcast.net/~blueeyedman/music.html
djeffectz	Date: June 6, 2005 @ 12:05 PM beatmaka.com - told me my music doesn't fit in a correct genre and that I should try to match popular artists in style to fit into a genre, and removed the tracks I had uploaded without even giving them a rating of 0 through 5. I scored negative. =P Screw that, lol. I don't have to fit in a genre. I really wouldn't reccomend these guys, though you can try for yourself and formulate your own opinion if you feel my case was a fluke and I caught them on a bad day.
zedsalt	Date: June 7, 2005 @ 12:07 PM I always take it as a great recommendation when someone says a piece of music defies genrefication. Were I in your situation, my attitude would be, "A compliment from a batch of idiots is still a compliment!"
Elu	Date: July 15, 2005 @ 10:40 AM I believe the Elu is on every single on line music site there is...I kid you not. This is not my doing by any means, it was done by my label. Quite honestly I haven't seen much in the way of payment because I have to split everything, however, they are all good and offer great exposure. It takes commitment and time for self promotion and it's the only way any of this will work. If I were to do this on my own, I would put a few free downloads on the more high profile sites around like DM, musicdownload.com, CD baby...etc, and then set up a pay-pal account and your own web page selling direct to those who are interested. DM also offers a great web hosting package. This is not a plug for DM...but I use them myself and have no complaints.
leflaw	Date: July 15, 2005 @ 7:08 PM Tanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
leflaw	Date: July 15, 2005 @ 7:09 PM By the way, I believe there are only truly six genres of music Genre A genre B genre D Genre 2 Genre 5 miscellaneous All other genres are crossovers of the main genre's. See?
zedsalt	Date: July 16, 2005 @ 12:32 PM I betcha that if I listed my genre as "genres B&D", I'd get a lot more hits on search engines!
zedsalt	Date: July 16, 2005 @ 12:35 PM Apparently, genres C, 1, 3, and 4 went the way of the A or B battery. Adding the word "battery" to my description might bring in the same crowd as "genres B&D". Just an observation.
Lcrowley	Date: July 27, 2005 @ 2:22 PM I only recommend 2 sites to my friends and peers when asked .. and that is Dmusic and independentartistscompany.com Both sites are very well kept and customer sevice is great at both ... not to mention they both are different in their approach ...
Northnoise	Date: July 30, 2005 @ 3:15 AM Wow.. I freaking HATE sites like garageband.com: Go to the site, read everything, legal terms and all, sign up (entering some personal info, email etc.) and register a band. Seems fine, no problem. All's well and good until you want to upload a song. Then you find out you have to pay. There's no other way to host a song there. Pay to host my music? I can do that on my own web space that I already pay for, thank you very much. Of course, they do everything possible to keep you in the dark until the last minute. Ugh. Drives me nuts. I'm happy to pay to support a site (like dmusic, have no cash right now though), but don't force me to! I won't recommend them to anyone, in fact, I'll recommend against them for their shady business practices, hiding the cost of doing business with them until they already have your info.
TameasDust	Date: October 25, 2005 @ 9:00 AM
shadowself	Date: October 25, 2005 @ 10:52 AM You don't have to pay on Garageband. You have to review songs by other bands to earn credits, and those credits can be used to upload your music for review by others. Don't go into the music hosting section, go into the contest section. http://www.garageband.com/upload It states right on this page: First, join the community for FREE. Second, register your band for FREE. Third, earn an "upload credit" by doing reviews or paying $19.99. Yes, you can pay to upload your music, but you don't have to. I uploaded music there before, and I earned the credit by doing reviews.
EtherEclectic	Date: February 11, 2006 @ 2:32 PM anyone here use Rhapsody? its alot like itunes but you pay per month for unlimited streaming/playlisting of songs, from an extremely large library. basically if you want to put them onto a CD you have to buy them which is usually 7.99 for the whole album or .89cents for each song. may seem like a ripoff, but i have 4gigs full of songs on my rhapsody account that i can listen to from my PC or any Pc that has rhapsody installed.
talentscout	Date: April 14, 2006 @ 10:41 PM garageband seems cluttered and complicated to me. This website is better, and CD Baby isn't too bad.
BasicBoy	Date: May 11, 2006 @ 10:54 AM www.peoplesound.com is a gud site for liserning to unsigned artists but sadly you carnt sign up as an artist yet. and also www.electromancher.com you can lisern to stuff on their but if you want 2 lisern 2 stuff you have pay dmusic is the best
BasicBoy	Date: May 23, 2006 @ 3:46 PM mistake on that on www.electromancher.com u can lisenr for free but have 2 pay to uplaod ur songs
InsaneWayne	Date: August 10, 2006 @ 4:02 PM Genres: Bad Music (change the radio station dude) Not So Bad Music (hey the chick is hot!) Good Music (turn it up dude!) Great Music (Its not loud enough! wattage! I need mo' wattage!) I drove by CDbaby, not bad, it's kinda like DM but without the family feel. Garageband sucks, makes it look like everybody wants to sign a contract. Im paying attention to how iTunes treats Indies. Do any of these sites offer legal services to Indies? such as Trademarking yer band's name and Copyrighting yer music fer ya? er um, in YOUR name btw, years ago I found so many sites that would copyright yer stuff, but in THEIR name not yers. Beware of the RIAA buying up a site and changing the fine print on ya.
markkuvu	Date: January 19, 2008 @ 11:29 AM I've had accounts with about 83 OMD's and have dropped all but 5. Most of them are useless and lack the most important aspect of why most of us artists are on these sites, listeners. It gets quite tiresome when you have the same artists checking out each others music because there is nothing else going on, or an artist has to fix his or her plays to be at the top of the charts for play by whatever small amount of listeners might happen to drop by. The other thing I've found is sites that even lack listeners charge you for everything including passing gas. As I stated out of 83 I'm down to 5 worthwhile OMD's. Yeah you've got your SoundClicks and even this site which is ok even for guys like me who refuses to pay for play etc. but I did find a site that is growing constantly both with artists and listeners. They include 100mb space for music,pics and or videos. You can sell downloads. You can customize your own artist or user page with html or use their backgrounds etc. They have a radio, and to me what is the most important is a player that I can put anywhere on the web by simply copying and pasting html. Mostly I use this player on my own web page. The best of all is that it's all free. It's still a fairly new site and has a forum with only about 48 members and could use a bit more activity, but then again the site is growing by the day. Want to see my page there? Here check it out for yourselves. http://www.musicplaces.com/jazz_enigma/ I'm not planning on abandoning this site by no means as I've been here too long. It is after all one of the ones I didn't drop.
zedsalt	Date: January 20, 2008 @ 10:34 AM Exposure is paramount in my mind, too...that's why I'll probably just wait and see how things go for Musicplaces. Am I confusing them with another site, or have they already been around for quite a long while? I don't know, but in the meanwhile, I'll probably put some material up at the resurrected MP3.com. And of course, continue to hang out with my DMusic buds and put my unfinished dead-enders up for other folks to do brilliant things with.
markkuvu	Date: January 20, 2008 @ 11:00 AM On 20th Jan 2008, zedsalt said: Exposure is paramount in my mind, too...that's why I'll probably just wait and see how things go for Musicplaces. Am I confusing them with another site, or have they already been around for quite a long while? I don't know, but in the meanwhile, I'll probably put some material up at the resurrected MP3.com. And of course, continue to hang out with my DMusic buds and put my unfinished dead-enders up for other folks to do brilliant things with. Music Places used to be one of those little web radio sites and artists really had no control over their music or their page. The site was created using html and the files were .ra (RealMedia)enhanced lo-fi crap. If you wanted to listen to any of the music you had to have a Real Player. The site was purchased early last year and had to be recreated using PHP and changing servers making it a lot faster. They've also increased the file limits from 3 songs to 50mb and to 100mb with the vault system (selling downloads). You may need to ask admin for the extra 50mb but you will get it free for now. I've been on the site from day one when it was just a internet radio site to today and so far like what I've seen and where it's headed. It's a place worth checking out anyway. The more worthwhile exposure and tools to work with you can get the better off you'll be.
zedsalt	Date: January 21, 2008 @ 11:09 AM The history of these sites is fascinating stuff. The ease and economy with which one can start and maintain a site makes for some soap-opera-worthy drama. I first put music up at IUMA just before its meltdown. They were like MP3.com's cooler little brother. I'm told that they had a tech staff of two, and when the owners thought one of the techies was getting a little "uppity", they fired him and the other left almost before the door had closed behind the first...figuratively, anyway; I'm not even sure there ever was an actual, physical door. Then they left the site up as it disintegrated and the period of time they'd paid for ran out (about a year and a half). That sort of thing would be unthinkable for a brick-and-mortar business, but it happens on the web all the time.
IkeBetina	Date: June 8, 2008 @ 8:38 AM [QUOTE info=markkuvu,January 19, 2008 @ 11:29 AM]I've had accounts with about 83 OMD's and have dropped all but 5... Want to see my page there? Here check it out for ourselves... http://www.musicplaces.com/jazz_enigma/ 5 out of 83? You only disclosed 1. Please tell us the other 4.
GeneHilbert	Date: June 8, 2008 @ 4:07 PM Here we go...... OK first thing I tried to go to the DM store. I get this.... Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.musicpill.com. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Yada Yada...... This alone - is not a good thing. Next - on the index (home) and music pages we need a "Store" tab and direct link to available CDs, merchandise and paid D/Ls. It is too hard to find your way through the maze the way is is now. Think KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
Distilled1	Date: June 8, 2008 @ 6:21 PM ^YES^ I can't even find my CD half the time We need a Seller direct link, and such and as Gene said KISS... for anyone there its really a mess and hard to find anything
TameasDust	Date: July 10, 2008 @ 2:05 AM