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Please help me find this music website.

Thaspian	Date: January 18, 2007 @ 11:03 PM They advertize that the prices of their CDs are $5.00, and they give $2.50 to the artist. You can pay more than $5 though - if you pay $8, $4 goes to the artist. They have about 150 artists last time I checked. Their webpage had a white background. One of their main artists had a mandolin as the main instrument(I have been looking for this group forever). If anyone knows of, or has a clue of this site I am talking about, I wuld be highly apprecitive.
mattbanx	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 3:13 AM I'm not positive if Download.com at C Span has them for that cheap. But I have seen low prices and some big named artist there. I could'nt tell you of the artist take per sale ratio. I know of a couple of acts that play a mandolin at a forum called Just Plain Folks and have put up albums at cd baby. Don't remember who they are off-hand. I have seen at SounClick to where the artist gets I believe even more than half the take. But I don't know how profitable selling on a website would be. I don't know of anyone that has really profited off of it. In fact, the only musicians I see profit off of websites have something other than their own music on it. Such as promoting or producing for other acts. And they all still gig. It seems to be just a profit game for Britney Spears and the like. Internet sales for 2005 were 1 million. I suppose that figure went up a little for 2006. Not too much when you consider that the mainstream acts probably get the bulk of that. While there are millions of indie acts on the net. Sorry for the ramble. But I think I have seen at least a couple of sites like the one you are talking about.
mattbanx	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 3:28 AM I would like to add in another post since I can't edit it in my last post. I noticed from what I have read around that there has been quite a boom in film music. I was speaking more of the acts themselves that have a hard time selling on the net. I always liked film music. Although I like playing now only as a hobby. When I get nice recording equipment, I will send a submission or 2 for that. But I still love the hobby in any event.
mattbanx	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 4:52 AM I passed by here and saw I committed a booboo. There were 1 billion dollars made in internet sales in 2005. Like I said, I can't edit here. I wish I could to avoid looking like a fu-- tard.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 6:24 PM soundclick no longer sells CDs and they take 37 cents from each digital download. cdbaby - they charge $4 per CD, they sometimes have sales on for $5.00 (where I think they reduce their profit on the CD) and there are quite a few CDs available sub 9 dollars. otherwise... earbuzz - they give artists 100% of the music sales but charge an annual fee of $45 magnatune - 50/50 split with them, albums start at 5 dollars
mattbanx	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 8:16 PM A lot of people like cdbaby. I never heard of magnatune. I'm going to check that out. If it's a little project you want to kick out on your own or if you have a publishing deal, I don't know about that. There's places for mechanical royalties, if you are an already established musician you probably have already been into that. I'd like to find sites and forums that specialize in film music. They seem kind of difficult to come by when I search for them. I believe that SoundClick still sells digital downloads of albums. But they did phase out cd's.
ChillinBuzz	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 9:12 PM "Please help me find this music website." I don't think the Thaspinator meant "Give me stats about music sites, who's making profits & info on royalties" - he asked if you knew of the site he was describing... I'm trying to find this site, though I don't think I've seen it, I do have a spattering of music site links around somewhere that I was compiling for future releases, hopefully it's one of those, unless you find it (of course, if you cleared your history you are a total fool, assuming you weren't trying to hide the late night porn movie download sessions)
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 10:19 PM yup, I didn't know, so substituted lack of knowledge with verbal diarrhea
mattbanx	Date: January 19, 2007 @ 10:46 PM If verbal diarrhea is all there is, than those experts can comb through the poop. I don't know either.
ChillinBuzz	Date: January 20, 2007 @ 12:30 AM you could've opened a window first!
mattbanx	Date: January 20, 2007 @ 12:54 AM Nah... My Window is stuck!
GeneHilbert	Date: January 20, 2007 @ 4:04 AM
mattbanx	Date: January 20, 2007 @ 4:58 AM I'm off the computer most of the time because of what to do off the internet. I don't think for what a bunch of chin stokeys sitting behind a computer may disect with my words. Especially if I am trying to help. I would have wrapped it up in a single post if that option here was available for edit and delete. Just for the record, a 2 part question was asked. I answered, and even gave a name of a forum to where I though I saw who the poster was looking for. Experts are generally full of shit anyway. So I was just making a pun with that remark of them combing through shit. But anyways, I'm back to the grindstone Monday. Peace!
markkuvu	Date: January 19, 2008 @ 11:02 AM Sounds to me like http://www.homemademusic.com They are associated wirh http://www.indieonestop.com and are out of Utah. They cater to bands who want CD's on demand. They also sell unsigned artists cd's on site. I had them make me some CD's a few years ago. An entire CD with packaging and 4 page booklet etc at the time cost me $4.50. The quality was great but the service bit the big one. It took them forever to get me the 20 I ordered. They have such a back log that it could take up to six weeks or more to get your order. Their customer service is like non existent and if you try to e-mail them, you'll never get a response. I had to call them on the phone. Today they are going through some renovation and phase 1 has been completed, what ever that is. They've been going through renovations now for years, three if I'm not mistaken. The idea is great and the quality of the product is superb but what good is it if there's one guy working the business while the other is making the cd's with no customer service to speak of.
Distilled1	Date: January 19, 2008 @ 2:18 PM magnatune is like that as well and white background
Thaspian	Date: January 19, 2008 @ 11:55 PM it was magnatune
Distilled1	Date: January 19, 2008 @ 11:56 PM I knew it I get stuff for podcast there great podsafe music and great artist!
independentm...	Date: January 23, 2008 @ 9:32 AM http://www.homemademusic.com probably is who you are thinking of. As markkuvu said, it is a very small home-made operation. I have not talked with them in a couple of years and am not sure they are in full scale operation. Best thing to do is to try and get them on the phone if you want to get anything done via them.
Thaspian	Date: January 23, 2008 @ 11:54 AM NO! magnatune

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