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    Posted: December 01 2007 at 01:28
[this may need to be moved to another forum..i don't know]

To say that it's difficult to get one's own music successfully marketed these days seems like an understatement.

CD sales are dropping in favor of downloadable mp3 files.  Personally I don’t like this at all for several reasons…but anyway…

Those of you who are / have produced your own music…how do you or are you distributing / marketing it as far as format goes. CD or mp3 ?

My songs are still in production and I was planning on eventually going through CDBaby selling my music as a CD album.  A Salt Lake City based sound engineer – producer told me the other day, “forget CDs…they are history…everything is going Mp3 format”

Is anyone else besides me a little stymied regarding this and related issues ?


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Points: 21149 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2007 at 02:52
^ Do you know that CDBaby now also sell mp3s? I think it's a really smart move ... but you should try to make the mp3s available for a reduced price, since you're not getting something tangible people need some kind of incentive to choose mp3.
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Points: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:06
Thanks for the reply Mike Wink

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ Do you know that CDBaby now also sell mp3s?

yes...i figured they did, but i understood that their main focus was CDs.
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I think it's a really smart move ...

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Points: 21149 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:29
^ I think it's a smart move both for CDBaby to offer mp3 downloads and for you to sell your music through CDBaby ... I don't know any other online music store which cares so much about the artists (if what they're claiming is true, 91% of the revenue of the mp3 sales goes directly to the artist). 
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Points: 5865 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:32
Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



Those of you who are / have produced your own music…how do you or are
you distributing / marketing it as far as format goes. CD or mp3 ?



Free mp3 and hopes for few CDs to be sold
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Points: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:59
Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



Those of you who are / have produced your own music…how do you or are
you distributing / marketing it as far as format goes. CD or mp3 ?



Free mp3 and hopes for few CDs to be sold


Free Mp3 ...Hmmm.
your strategy is to give listeners a little "taste" a "sample" before they purchase ?

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Points: 865 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2007 at 13:29
Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:


Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



Those of you who are / have produced your own music…how do you or are
you distributing / marketing it as far as format goes. CD or mp3 ?



Free mp3 and hopes for few CDs to be sold


Free Mp3 ...Hmmm.
your strategy is to give listeners a little "taste" a "sample" before they purchase ?

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a lot of artists offer some of their songs for listening on sites like MySpace etc. Marketing oneself on MySpace seems to be mandatory for artists nowadays.
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Points: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2007 at 17:37
Originally posted by magnus magnus wrote:

Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:


Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



Those of you who are / have produced your own music…how do you or are
you distributing / marketing it as far as format goes. CD or mp3 ?



Free mp3 and hopes for few CDs to be sold


Free Mp3 ...Hmmm.
your strategy is to give listeners a little "taste" a "sample" before they purchase ?

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a lot of artists offer some of their songs for listening on sites like MySpace etc. Marketing oneself on MySpace seems to be mandatory for artists nowadays.


"mandatory" ... yes it does seem like that doesn't it ?

1. i don't like their "user agreements" ... example: garageband forces people to "sign" two separate agreements before uploading music Angry

2. uploading to garageband changes all music formats from 128 kbps/stereo to 32kbps.mono.Angry  

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I download music that I want, with the assumption that I will purchase some of the artist's music later if I like them enough to want to give them my money.  I don't have nearly enough cash to buy all of the music I acquire.
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:48
Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



2. uploading to garageband changes all music formats from 128 kbps/stereo to 32kbps.mono.Angry  

 
Isn't that only if you select the "Low Bandwidth" option?
 
Both of our tracks (in the Prog Rock top 30, BTW Big%20smile) have retained their stereo-ness and sound like 128k to me; http://www.garageband.com/charts/prog_rock/current.html?|pe1|S9ncJmn4vPT-JFy1Yw
 
- I found I had to select Play all, then use the buttons to skip through the other tracks... although they're all well worth a listen and better produced than ours... Embarrassed


Edited by Certif1ed - December 04 2007 at 08:53
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Points: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2007 at 11:36
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

Originally posted by Utah Man Utah Man wrote:



2. uploading to garageband changes all music formats from 128 kbps/stereo to 32kbps.mono.Angry  

 
Isn't that only if you select the "Low Bandwidth" option?
 
Both of our tracks (in the Prog Rock top 30, BTW Big%20smile) have retained their stereo-ness and sound like 128k to me; http://www.garageband.com/charts/prog_rock/current.html?|pe1|S9ncJmn4vPT-JFy1Yw
 
- I found I had to select Play all, then use the buttons to skip through the other tracks... although they're all well worth a listen and better produced than ours... Embarrassed


i must have missed that bandwidth option i guess.  i don't recall seeing it.

top 30 in prog eh...i am very happy for you Cert Clap

i decided to just use myspace & garageband to simply provide a link to my site.  i bought a site and domain for only $60 for a whole year...that's not bad. and i didn't have to "sign" any air-tight agreements. 

OTOH, maybe i'll go ahead and upload a couple to GB just to see what happens.

btw, Cert, if you get a chance i would appreciate your technical input.   you have good "sound engineer" ears i think...Wink


Edited by Utah Man - December 04 2007 at 11:38
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