if any one using this scrip and has it working 100%, leave responce and i will contact and pay for your help!

With sites like Nimbit, Musicane, and from the looks of it, Audiolife, you can have some great technology that allows any crappy musician to have some incredible tools to conduct all sorts of online “business”. And since my interest in music marketing has morphed primarily into the tech side of things, I can really appreciate these turnkey, embeddable solutions that people are putting out. Each empowers artists like never before, in different ways. From my very brief scan of Audiolife’s site, they look to be similar. They’ve extended the functionality ever further, but still depend on artists to actually sell things to make their money. They operate on a commission basis, meaning if artists aren’t selling music and merchandise, then they don’t make any money.

In my narrow experience, no one wants to pay for music anymore, and no one cares about the merchandise of some unknown artist. Especially in today’s era of American Idol and Facebook, where everyone wants to and can be a celebrity in their own way. A company like Audiolife may be able to stay in business by taking a tiny piece of a tiny piece from the millions of amateur musicians out there. But for these amateur musicians, whether they choose Audiolife, Nimbit, or Santa Clause isn’t going to change the lack of demand for their “products”.

So, my long-winded advice is to consider whether you can create demand sufficient enough to warrant the time and energy in setting up an online merch widget.

I took a look at your website and it looks like your music does well in the licensing arena. If I were you I’d focus my efforts on that, since there’s more dinero to be made that way these days.

Best of luck!

http://www.clousfamily.com, I’ve tried several, and picked Amiestreet, for the moment, because they “sound” the best, but the payout model is the most radical… if I find another that plays and pays better, I’ll likely switch… but I like Amiestreet’s customer service, they’ve been great, and their model is attracting named bands — I had 223 downloads in 2 weeks, the first two weeks, so I felt like it was reporting things to me, and that was more honest than charging me to try to sell their site to my fans… their transpency, and answering questions I had quickly made it feel like a great relationship, even though… they get the first $5… Still, if it’s successful, cool… in the meantime, they are playing bandwidth, hosting, upload/downloads… etc. it’s a win for them only if people actually DO by music, and the more successful folks are supporting my efforts — that’s very kind.

Music is the focus…

I don’t like you, have a huge number of albums, up to only 7 now, but with this and that — to expect the artist to pay for features, is crazy.

If the music is good, the site design good… it’s still hard to compete with free — and Itunes, where 80% of the market is now….

I’ve started to look at selling via Createspace.com, part of amazon, etc. but yes, they want a huge amount of the deal, and don’t play the full song — Amiestreet does… and it’s back to will people rip off the independent artist or not…

Nimbit called me, the artist rep tried to sell their services, but the math doesn’t add up but for them…

Here’s the winning business relationship,
artist + vendor/distributor + fan

The Internet appears to squeeze out the prior
artist (+ record label + lots of others)…

Some would even say that it is now just

artist + fan … but outside of live music and a hat, that’s not true. Venue owners, etc.

The internet/isp/and web hosting at the very least impact the user experience. Selling or listening, they shouldn’t be ignored.

I wanted Nimbit to give free songs, in exchange for an email address… but that’s a feature I have to pay for — well, sadly, I can’t, but on the website/social networking site, I’m getting it anyway… so how well does the player work to sell music? To play it?

Cdbaby, which has a ton of content isn’t developing these tools, but the hungry new ones are — some can work with Cdbaby, like Amiestreet, and I think be successful for Indies, where co-operation is key… or try to replace it … and good luck!

However, Magatune’s model, a virtual highly edited listing of music they like isn’t available as a channel for every musician… it calls for lots of planning.

Love the blog,

Scott