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Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Mark — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:35:19 -0000

It's a shame that CDBaby's submission service is broken right now and has been broken for 6 weeks. I have been told that it might be up in 4 weeks.

I loved CDBaby for years, and now am reading this article so I can learn which company I'll be switching to - forever.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Kiley Thompson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:20:09 -0000

Incredible resource list, as I'm up to my eyeballs with anger with the two digital distributors i work with right now (cdbaby and feiyr). WHATEVER YOU DO, don't use Feiyr's mastering service. You can't download or approve the final result. and with the restructure of cdbaby, i've been waiting two months to have 4 singles released with them (they haven't even put them on their website). Feiyr is extremely quick to post to their exclusive portals, and they report/pay almost immediately. Outside of their portals, i think i paid for nearly 50 sites and 10 have them and are selling them.
weak.
Symphonic looks promising.
Again, thanks for the info.

Re: 200+ Music Industry, Marketing, Social Media and Tech Blogs That’ll Make You A Media Whore!

phuboi — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:09:54 -0000

Under "Social Media", add "Social Media Marketing in Music".
http://bit.ly/17pTw
Recent Posts: Watching videos together with videowave gadget on Google Wave
How will Google Wave impact online Music?
(n)ICE music
PHAME for fame?

Re: Coldplay Meet Jay-Z In Mixtape Mash-up

princessm92 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:28:30 -0000

I'm a huge Coldplay fan and I've heard the mix recordings and I really liked it.

Re: 10 ‘New Music Industry’ PDFs That’ll Make You An Expert

Netvalar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:03:54 -0000

Hey I wanted to drop by and update you on the Report's new URL. I just recently went through a rebranding due to domain needs.

The "Start a Video Strategy" is now at http://evolutioncoop.com/Reports/start_a_video_...

This is better organized and domain expandable

Re: How Twitter Got My Blogging Mojo Back

markdickenson45 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:02:25 -0000

http://sellmusicitunes.com/

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

willduke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:04:23 -0000

Wow Adrian - I know this list represents a lot of time on your part. Thank you for pulling it all together in one place. I'll recommend your site and this post in particular to my clients as they leave the mastering studio.

"...because we all want to hear good music."

-Will

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

Sander — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:13:52 -0000

Sander here from EPM. Thanks for the brief review! We're currently upgrading our website to show a video demo of our LMS and I'll make sure to include a list of terms as well. We work on a percentage base and help labels to be placed properly at the stores they will sell best. Our contract has a 30 days no-nonsense cancellation clause and we don't ask any fees upfront. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Re: Resources To Help Get Your Music In Films & TV

Ben — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:26:59 -0000

Thanks for one of the most useful articles I've read on the current landscape of music supervision. It can be difficult for even the most talented indie bands to connect with the people who can place their music. Licensing libraries are another way to for indie bands to get music. Boutique libraries like ours, Matchless Music (http://matchlessmusic.net), are exclusively licensing Indie music online. Directors, Film makers, Creative Directors, Producers, Music Supervisors can listen, share and license up-and-coming and little known Indie artists. Just another way artists to try to get their music synced, and most importantly heard by a wider audience.

Re: 101 Distribution Correction

tiffany le — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:47:48 -0000

Thank you! We appreciate the correction!!

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

buzzsonic — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:57:11 -0000

Really appreciate the comments Flemming, certainly helped to fill in some gaps which I will be updating shortly in a bigger round-up.

Many thanks for taking time out to leave feedback!

Adrian

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Flemming Kjer — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:35:51 -0000

Hey Adrian,

Thanks a lot for including our humble company on your list, and thanks for the input. We can definitely use your comments to improve the information on our website and the structure of it. We certainly do not mean to scare off visitors - in fact, we might want to consider leaving our relatively tiny all-flash site and replace it with an (x)html site.

KJER.com strive to be the preferred business partner to record labels and music production companies worldwide that do not have the time or the resources in-house to take care of the complex digital distribution processes, and therefore have chosen to outsource the administration of their digital music assets.

Before we enter a business relationship we use a quite "analogue" way of discussing whether KJER.com is in fact the right place for the company in question. Consequently, visitors aren't enabled to automatically sign up. We want to be sure that we are the right choice for our clients, and we are only interested in helping the right clients.

In that process, we collaborate with IODA and and we have done that since 2005. Of course! :)
- Please allow me to underline the fact that KJER.com is a B2B company, i.e. we do not assist individual artists.

By-the-way: We help our clients with a lot of other relevant and critical tasks too, e.g. audio and graphics prep work.

Thanks again. Keep up the good work.

All the best,

Flemming Kjer
- director / founder
KJER.com ApS

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

buzzsonic — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:40 -0000

Thanks for the feedback Justin, also much appreciated. I do hope you saw my part 2 update here:
http://buzzsonic.com/2009/04/26/digital-music-d...

There's a part 3 coming up this weekend and I'll be putting all three parts together as a PDF very shortly.

All the best

Adrian

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Justin Boland — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:35:02 -0000

It's startling to see actual research and content on a music business blog. Thank you for taking the time to do this right, this was something worth printing and taking notes on. Very rare and much appreciated.

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

facebook-673250971 — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:12:01 -0000

Hey Adrian,

Not a problem. Feel free to tune in to our blog @ http://watunes2.blogspot.com to get the latest news and buzz about WaTunes. Let me know if you need anything at all in regards to WaTunes, 1-on-1 interviews, etc. I'm all ears! :D

Kevin Rivers
CEO, WaTunes.com

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

buzzsonic — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:49:19 -0000

Appreciate your update Kevin, like I say in the comment above I am constantly updating this subject area and there will be a PDF roundup pretty soon, so thanks for keeping me informed of things I might have missed and WaTunes site updates.

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

buzzsonic — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:47:15 -0000

Thanks as always for your feedback Peter. I'm actually getting enough together for a part 3 and am going to cobble all the bits together, squeeze it all into a PDF and offer the 3 parts in one so to speak.

Re: How To Get Your Music Distributed on iTunes (And Keep Most Of The Money)

drron — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:57:35 -0000

For artists to be successful in the continually emerging new music industry, they need to create and maintain their brand on their own website, and in addition sell everywhere through distributors like Tunecore. An artist or preferably, those working for the artist, must create and build a unique brand for the artist. The recent success of the electronic music DJ Deadmou5 is not just his talent, but his unique branding which is unforgettable and easily recognized. When I saw him appear at the IDMA (International Dance Music Awards) during WMC (Winter Music Conference, March 2009, Miami), there was no doubt who he was in the crowd of almost 1,000 people. He was the guy with a giant mouse head and big ears covering his head.

I've heard artists proudly say that they are now in iTunes, the same way that in the past someone might have proudly told others that they got signed with a Label. Well, just getting into iTunes is no guarantee of any sort of results. I run Loud Feed, which offers artists the ability to sell from your own branded web site and virally distribute widgets for your fans to promote and sell your music, tickets and merchandise on social networks and blogs. In 2007, the staff at Loud Feed were hired by Tunecore to write the software at the core of Tunecore's distribution engine, which delivers music into iTunes, Amazon MP3, Emusic, Rhapsody and many more online retailers. Today Loud Feed offers artists the ability to sell from their own branded artist site or widgets and make 100%. Our business model as an engineering company that offers a white label technology solution for artists, labels and distributors is to simply put a margin on bandwidth usage, while taking 0% of your music sales. That makes us more like a utility company, where you're only paying more if you're using more electricity.

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

José Luis Zagazeta — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:46:21 -0000

Don't forget to add La Cupula Music, a new Digital Music Aggregator focusing on Spanish Markets with an interesting self-service system www.lacupulamusic.com

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

Steven Finch — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:21:15 -0000

Thanks for the mention of RouteNote. We are currently offering artists reach to over 90% of the online music store market, even though we dont deal with Rhapsody and Napster (who are small players currently). Additionally, we will be addding a lot more features in the coming months, as we arent aiming to be your normal digital music distributor, we are aiming to provide artists with the best online music service.

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

facebook-673250971 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:53:29 -0000

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your mention about WaTunes. Though, I may point out that WaTunes also services content to Rhapsody, MediaNet, and Wal-Mart. WaTunes is a very innovative company with great minds at work. Changing the way music is delivered and expressed by independent musicians and fans! Looking forward to hearing for from you. :)

Kevin Rivers
CEO, WaTunes.com

Re: Digital Music Distribution Round-Up Part Two

Peter Wells — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:46:03 -0000

Adrian, you may have to write this roundup every month, as there seem to be more and more services every month! But again, that's a good thing. It shows people really understand the demand.

Thanks again for your really positive comments in your first part. I know I and the entire executive staff at TuneCore will be watching to see how it all falls out.

--Peter
peter@tunecore.com

Re: New Commenting System

visualalchemy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:26:08 -0000

Disqus FTW!

Re: New Commenting System

jeffshattuck — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:02:53 -0000

Trying it now...

Re: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

buzzsonic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:10:39 -0000

I think this is something that Derek Sivers had put in motion when he was still at the helm, so was aware of it. Would be interested to know the percentage of download sales vs CD sales on CDBaby nowadays.

And of course I am aware of the CDBaby services as I have used them myself!

Thanks for taking time out to leave your comments here Kevin. Really appreciate you taking the time!
Adrian