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Broadcasting your Music to the WorldPublishing your Music the Free and Easy Way
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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.
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 MusicMatch. If you have Apple's iTunes you can use that.
Once you upload the file it may take a day or so to clear. Some sites actually listen to every song to make sure you are not just streaming a long list of profane words. Assuming your are within common standards your music will appear on your site and it becomes accessible to the world. Amazing.
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.
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!
Cool Quote:
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936
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