I just got off the phone with Rick O’Neal, a friendly staffer from Nimbit. A few weeks ago I set up a free account with them so I could use their embeddable Online Merch Table (OMT), to sell my music directly to people from my various websites.
A Real Voice on the Phone
Though I usually just [...]
There was a post yesterday on Techcrunch about a new site for selling your music online. Yay, we’ve all been hoping another would come along, right? Well, this one introduces a different model.
What is It?
Popcuts, as it’s called, shares revenue from each download with both artists AND fans. Fans who spot a hit song first [...]
Thanks to constant tech innovations, there are now a million ways for the independent artist to distribute music digitally. We’ve looked at services like Tunecore and CDBaby that will get your music to many of the major players in digital music sales. And now there are a bunch of ways for the artist to sell [...]
I recently used Tunecore to distribute my latest musical release to iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, and a whole bunch of other services.
The album creation and upload process was pretty straightforward, and TuneCore’s user interface is very clean and easy to use. The tracks took forever to upload, but it was ~160MB for 4 songs.
Only two [...]
Every independent musician must answer the question: How am I going to get my music on iTunes?
Fortunately, this is really “easy” today. Not that you could do it yourself, because that still seems impossible. But there are several companies that will do it for you, for a fee.
Here are the two main players:
CD Baby
Pros
Like TuneCore, [...]
