Broadcasting your Music to the World

Publishing your Music the Free and Easy Way

If there is anything I truly love about living in the cyber age it is our ability to beam our tracks around the world to many people.  When I started this was not the case.  You either had a record deal or you had to play in grimy bars every night (or both) to get heard beyond the realm of friends and family.  Today you can share it with anyone who will give it a listen. 

So how do you get started?  There are a number of internet sites that will host your music for free.  Or you can do it yourself by getting a website that has MP3 streaming capability.  The later will cost you some money, but not much if you look around. 

I personally recommend Soundclick. If you pat 10 bucks a month you can post as many songs as you want at the higher 320 bitrate.  When you have a lot of songs it's definitely worth it.  I think it has the best sound quality of all the music sites.  Even at the free 128 bitrate, Soundclick sounds better than Myspace.  However, Myspace offers social networking to a higher degree, with a slight decrease in sound quality.  Facebook is more of a social network that lets you link up your songs and videos.  YouTube.com, surprisingly, is used by some musicians to post music and just a single video image. It certainly does make sense to have files on all free internet sites.  You can find tweakheadz on all 5 sites listed on the left. 

Having another site Host your Music: How it works

You simply register with them, get an url and password and they will send you back the location of your site and instructions on how to get started.  Some let you add your own pictures and text, so you can personalize the pages to suit you.  Then you upload your music files.  Typically these will be in MP3 format, so some sites will want them in Windows Media format too.  You should be able to make these files directly in most major music software, such as Logic, Sonar and Cubase (some may require you purchase a separate plugin).   If you don't have that facility you can use a utility like WinAmp or Lame.  If you have Apple's iTunes you can use that. 

Once you upload the file it may clear immediately.  Assuming your are within common standards your music will appear on your site and it becomes accessible to the world.  Amazing.
 

Creating Your Own Music Website

Getting a website frees you from a lot of the delays involved.  Plus you have total freedom over content, within limits set by your host provider.  You can devote a whole webpage to each song if you like, add lyrics, contact info, bizarre pictures.  Get some easy to use web page creation software (unless you want to be a web designer too). Make an index.html page, upload your songs and link them on your index page.

Check Google for web hosts--there are thousands of them out there.  In fact, google itself will give you a free website.  Go get it!

Once you do get your music up on the internet, come back and post the url in your Song Review Forum.  You'll have an instant audience.  Ah the days of real music making, sharing and listening have come at last.   Appreciate it my friends!

The Tweak,

A hot summer night, 2009

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