13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
1:11 p.m.
There appears to be one online music sales site for every musician out there.
Well, maybe not quite that extreme. But, as has always been the case, the money isn't
in being a musician, it's in selling the tools to musicians (instruments, software,
t-shirt printing, etc., and now online music sales services). I suppose it's always
been this way, dating back to the explosion of people selling HTML editors to aspiring web
designers (and network equipment to aspiring ISP's) in the 1990's, to the people
selling shovels to the gold miners in California in 1849.
I've looked into Magnatune and iThinkMusic, and I've got some stuff on
MusicSupervisor. My drummer put one of our band's tracks on SnoCap (we sold exactly
zero). Somewhere I have a VIRB.com account, which I wasn't able to use much because
its posting system requires Flash (which doesn't work on my 64-bit Linux machine).
Someone on another list pointed me to Nimbit.com, which looks pretty good so far.
Is anyone having any success with any of these sites for making any money selling tracks?
-ken
13 Feb
13 Feb
1:39 p.m.
On Feb 13, 2008 9:11 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
There appears to be one online music sales site for
every musician out there.
Well, maybe not quite that extreme. But, as has always been the case, the money isn't
in being a musician, it's in selling the tools to musicians (instruments, software,
t-shirt printing, etc., and now online music sales services). I suppose it's always
been this way, dating back to the explosion of people selling HTML editors to aspiring web
designers (and network equipment to aspiring ISP's) in the 1990's, to the people
selling shovels to the gold miners in California in 1849.
I've looked into Magnatune and iThinkMusic, and I've got some stuff on
MusicSupervisor. My drummer put one of our band's tracks on SnoCap (we sold exactly
zero). Somewhere I have a VIRB.com account, which I wasn't able to use much because
its posting system requires Flash (which doesn't work on my 64-bit Linux machine).
Someone on another list pointed me to Nimbit.com, which looks pretty good so far.
Is anyone having any success with any of these sites for making any money selling
tracks?
-ken
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I was thinking about this the other day. It can't be that hard to set
up music sales site and get money via paypal, have downloads in
flac/mp3/ogg automagically transcoded on upload from the original
flac. All the ones i've seen seem very for profit or very not
opensource. Maybe it could be an alternative... despite the many
closed source style sites already around. Maybe some percent of sales
goes to bandwidth cost? Would be pretty minimal though.
Loki
2:03 p.m.
New subject: online music sales sites
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:39:35PM +0300, Loki Davison wrote:
On Feb 13, 2008 9:11 PM, Ken Restivo
<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
That's very intriguing. An Open Source online music sales site, operated as a
not-for-profit. Possibly with some portion of revenues donated to funding Open Source
development.
Nice... this on-topic now.
-ken
There appears to be one online music sales site
for every musician out there.
Well, maybe not quite that extreme. But, as has always been the case, the money isn't
in being a musician, it's in selling the tools to musicians (instruments, software,
t-shirt printing, etc., and now online music sales services). I suppose it's always
been this way, dating back to the explosion of people selling HTML editors to aspiring web
designers (and network equipment to aspiring ISP's) in the 1990's, to the people
selling shovels to the gold miners in California in 1849.
I've looked into Magnatune and iThinkMusic, and I've got some stuff on
MusicSupervisor. My drummer put one of our band's tracks on SnoCap (we sold exactly
zero). Somewhere I have a VIRB.com account, which I wasn't able to use much because
its posting system requires Flash (which doesn't work on my 64-bit Linux machine).
Someone on another list pointed me to Nimbit.com, which looks pretty good so far.
Is anyone having any success with any of these sites for making any money selling
tracks?
-ken
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I was thinking about this the other day. It can't be that hard to set
up music sales site and get money via paypal, have downloads in
flac/mp3/ogg automagically transcoded on upload from the original
flac. All the ones i've seen seem very for profit or very not
opensource. Maybe it could be an alternative... despite the many
closed source style sites already around. Maybe some percent of sales
goes to bandwidth cost? Would be pretty minimal though.
2:11 p.m.
Hey there,
Have you tried amiestreet.com ? They have an interesting model to sell
music. Tracks begin free and then start to value some $ as they are
reccomended by other users. I haven't sold any tracks, but they already
worth some cents... ;-)
The most direct revenue I got from my little songs comes from jamendo.com.
They share half of their ads revenue with
artists<http://ccnelas.org/2007/01/15/jamendo-is-sharing-revenue/>e/>,
proportional to the album's page views. If your songs have little/medium
traffic you can win a couple of euros monthly... but if you got a hit album,
then who knows... you probably can profit more.
Keep in mind you must always be very active in the respective communities to
be listened. Otherwise, people will listen to something else...
cheers,
nelas
On Feb 13, 2008 4:39 PM, Loki Davison <loki.davison(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 13, 2008 9:11 PM, Ken Restivo
<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
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There appears to be one online music sales site
for every musician out
there.
Well, maybe not quite that extreme. But, as has always been the case,
the money
isn't in being a musician, it's in selling the tools to musicians
(instruments, software, t-shirt printing, etc., and now online music sales
services). I suppose it's always been this way, dating back to the explosion
of people selling HTML editors to aspiring web designers (and network
equipment to aspiring ISP's) in the 1990's, to the people selling shovels to
the gold miners in California in 1849.
I've looked into Magnatune and iThinkMusic, and I've got some stuff on
MusicSupervisor. My drummer put one of our band's tracks on SnoCap (we sold
exactly zero). Somewhere I have a VIRB.com account, which I wasn't able to
use much because its posting system requires Flash (which doesn't work on my
64-bit Linux machine). Someone on another list pointed me to Nimbit.com,
which looks pretty good so far.
Is anyone having any success with any of these sites for making any
money selling
tracks?
-ken
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http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
I was thinking about this the other day. It can't be that hard to set
up music sales site and get money via paypal, have downloads in
flac/mp3/ogg automagically transcoded on upload from the original
flac. All the ones i've seen seem very for profit or very not
opensource. Maybe it could be an alternative... despite the many
closed source style sites already around. Maybe some percent of sales
goes to bandwidth cost? Would be pretty minimal though.
Loki
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