It's nice that people are out there building platforms for artists to get their music out to the masses. But doesn't this just increase the signal to noise ratio? The problem with every artist-centric solution means that us music appreciators have to wade through bad tune after bad tune before we find a good one. I don't have much time to waste when i am looking for new music, but I enjoy new music more than anything. So for now, I am sticking to MP3 4U, mp3jackpot, and my other miscellaneous favorite mp3 blogs because all of these sites are built on the exchange of songs that at least one person has said are GOOD. The indie artist looking for exposure still wins, and I get to save my time.
i urge all artists who are sick of being duped by corporate-sponsored free hosting to post their songs at archive.org. it is free, you get a static URL that you can point to from your band's website, and you can even easily designate a creative commons music sharing license.
I realize that a concept like "quality of music" is pretty abstract, since beauty is usually always in the eye of the beholder... but being flooded with poor quality music was really the thing that caused mp3.com to eventually become a site i visited less and less.
so now mp3.com relaunches. yawn. is this 1996 all over again? how long before they assemble a mountain of crap that makes the true gems even harder to find?
i'm using http://www.mp3jackpot.com and http://www.mp34u.com these days to save time finding the "quality" free mp3's from those artists smart enough to give away a track or two in order to compete.
and hey, i'm also helping to find songs for mp34u.com - and it has been pretty fun so far.
studio costs not the problem - marketing is
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production cost savings would produce very little savings (i.e.: none) to the consumer.
most $ the record companies spend covers marketing and their losses on the releases that fail (which is somewhere around 9 out of 10).
this is a website that has turned me on to many cool new bands. the people who run this site go through tons of the MP3s available for free on the web and find one winning song each day. they've got everything: rock, hip-hop, dub, electronic music, reggae, metal, etc. needless to say, a LOT of MP3s i've downloaded here have turned me on to many cool new bands. check it out!
with intouch's latest move, i wonder how long it will take for sightsound to sue everyone else who is distributing music over the internet.
from their website at www.sightsound.com:
SightSound.com is a five-year-old Internet company based in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, that distributes movies and music online in an unprecedented, cutting-edge format.
It began when engineer Arthur Hair developed a technology to eliminate the physical distribution of music and video by instead delivering digital audio and video files over networks like the Internet. This innovation was the basis of a portfolio of patents and the founding of SightSound.com in 1995, by Hair and entrepreneur Scott Sander.
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hey, is it me or does it sound like 1998 all over again?
perhaps we can get another person to act as a "leonardo chiariglione" clone to help herd the cats.
good luck!
It's nice that people are out there building platforms for artists to get their music out to the masses. But doesn't this just increase the signal to noise ratio? The problem with every artist-centric solution means that us music appreciators have to wade through bad tune after bad tune before we find a good one. I don't have much time to waste when i am looking for new music, but I enjoy new music more than anything. So for now, I am sticking to MP3 4U, mp3jackpot, and my other miscellaneous favorite mp3 blogs because all of these sites are built on the exchange of songs that at least one person has said are GOOD. The indie artist looking for exposure still wins, and I get to save my time.
i urge all artists who are sick of being duped by corporate-sponsored free hosting to post their songs at archive.org. it is free, you get a static URL that you can point to from your band's website, and you can even easily designate a creative commons music sharing license.
I realize that a concept like "quality of music" is pretty abstract, since beauty is usually always in the eye of the beholder... but being flooded with poor quality music was really the thing that caused mp3.com to eventually become a site i visited less and less.
so now mp3.com relaunches. yawn. is this 1996 all over again? how long before they assemble a mountain of crap that makes the true gems even harder to find?
i'm using http://www.mp3jackpot.com and http://www.mp34u.com these days to save time finding the "quality" free mp3's from those artists smart enough to give away a track or two in order to compete.
and hey, i'm also helping to find songs for mp34u.com - and it has been pretty fun so far.
most $ the record companies spend covers marketing and their losses on the releases that fail (which is somewhere around 9 out of 10).
this is a website that has turned me on to many cool new bands. the people who run this site go through tons of the MP3s available for free on the web and find one winning song each day. they've got everything: rock, hip-hop, dub, electronic music, reggae, metal, etc. needless to say, a LOT of MP3s i've downloaded here have turned me on to many cool new bands. check it out!
from their website at www.sightsound.com:
SightSound.com is a five-year-old Internet company based in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, that distributes movies and music online in an unprecedented, cutting-edge format.
It began when engineer Arthur Hair developed a technology to eliminate the physical distribution of music and video by instead delivering digital audio and video files over networks like the Internet. This innovation was the basis of a portfolio of patents and the founding of SightSound.com in 1995, by Hair and entrepreneur Scott Sander.