Dmanlamius Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Arggg....! I've gone through a few sites, and all have turned out to have hidden charges or other annoying small-text things. I'd just signed up to soundclick.com, and uploaded the masses of music I have, only to find out that when people buy it, they HAVE to pay in $5, and use up all that credit. No good if they only want one song. Oh, and they take out quite a large comission. I just found a site called [url="http://jetsetindie.com"]http://jetsetindie.com[/url]. You get ALL the money into your paypal, and can make up the charges. They charge $47 a year for this. It sounds too good to be true, and I can't find any info about this site. Anyone know about it? Kris:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubs Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Ever looked at tunecore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmanlamius Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 I've heard bad things about it, so kinda ignored it... Do you recommend? Problem is that I don't want to put loads more time into joining, uploading, uploading art etc, only to find some trick at the end of the process...:'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 That jetsetindie site just seems to host tracks for you, it's not actually an aggregator. To my mind you may as well host the songs on your own site and sell them from there if that's the way you want to go. Realistically though, IMO downloads are really about iTunes, so you'd need to go through an aggregator. Which one really depends on how many downloads you think you'll sell, how long you want them available for and whether you want any physical distribution. If you've got CD's to sell CD Baby is your best bet. Otherwise AWAL, Tunecore or Reverbnation all offer a similar service - you've just got to do the maths on which is likely to be best for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmanlamius Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 [quote name='Musky' post='417039' date='Feb 22 2009, 11:19 PM']That jetsetindie site just seems to host tracks for you, it's not actually an aggregator. To my mind you may as well host the songs on your own site and sell them from there if that's the way you want to go. Realistically though, IMO downloads are really about iTunes, so you'd need to go through an aggregator. Which one really depends on how many downloads you think you'll sell, how long you want them available for and whether you want any physical distribution. If you've got CD's to sell CD Baby is your best bet. Otherwise AWAL, Tunecore or Reverbnation all offer a similar service - you've just got to do the maths on which is likely to be best for you.[/quote] Heya, Musky, thanks for your positive input. My problem with Tunecore is that you have to pay for each album/single separately. I want to sell seven different albums from each of my bands, so you can imagine the price... The singles are the same. I create music near daily, and just want to literally upload without having to pay a fee for each song? I see what you mean, though. I don't mind paying a one off payment, just not too much! Trying the others you mentioned, now...Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 AWAL doesn't charge to upload your songs and takes a 15% cut of the sales. Unless any of your bands have a reasonably high profile, with such a large amount of music to put up you're better off without any upfront charges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottomfeed Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) [b]CD Baby[/b] seems to have no hidden charges etc... [url="http://cdbaby.com/"]CD Baby[/url] Edited February 23, 2009 by bottomfeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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