Fellow musicians: CD or Mp3 Downloads ?
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Other music related lounges
Forum Name: Music and Musicians Exchange
Forum Description: Talk with and get feedback from other musicians on the site
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43963
Printed Date: November 25 2024 at 06:54
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Fellow musicians: CD or Mp3 Downloads ?
Posted By: Utah Man
Subject: Fellow musicians: CD or Mp3 Downloads ?
Date 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 ? . |
Replies:
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date 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.
------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
|
Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:06
Thanks for the reply Mike 
yes...i figured they did, but i understood that their main focus was CDs.
referring to mine or theirs ? |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date 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).
------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
|
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:32
Free mp3 and hopes for few CDs to be sold 
|
Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: December 01 2007 at 10:59
Free Mp3 ...Hmmm. your strategy is to give listeners a little "taste" a "sample" before they purchase ? . |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 13:29
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. ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
|
Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: December 03 2007 at 17:37
"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  2. uploading to garageband changes all music formats from 128 kbps/stereo to 32kbps.mono. . |
Posted By: MonkeyphoneAlex
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:36
|
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. ------------- "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -FZ |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 08:48
Isn't that only if you select the "Low Bandwidth" option?
Both of our tracks (in the Prog Rock top 30, BTW
 ) have retained their stereo-ness and sound like 128k to me; http://www.garageband.com/charts/prog_rock/current.html?|pe1|S9ncJmn4vPT-JFy1Yw - http://www.garageband.com/charts/prog_rock/current.html?|pe1|S9ncJmn4vPT-JFy1Yw http://www.garageband.com/genre/prog_rock/current.html?|pe1|S9ncJmn4vPT-JFy1Y389X8RsYUDbKcwz - - 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...  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: December 04 2007 at 11:36
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  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...  |