Have any artists actually made any significant money by trying Weedshare, or
Magnatune?

Weedshare (www.weedshare.com) involves a type of file that has DRM. The
listener can play the file up to 3 times and then the listener is asked to
purchase the track (usually around 99 cents).

Magnatune (www.magnatune.com) is an "internet record label" that uses a
shareware approach. Each artist (if accepted to magnatune) releases CDs as
groups of tracks that are playble on the magnatune site. 128K versions of
the songs can be played as many times as the listener wants. The listener
can purchase higher quality versions of the songs, and is allowed to legally
share the files with up to 3 people.

J.

I have made some money with Magnatune. While it's not necessarily
"significant", it's a hell of a lot more than I've made anywhere else.

They're certainly good people.

Myles

http://www.mylescochran.com





On 24/09/05 02:47, in article Se2Ze.2663$w74.1598@trndny05, "jay"
wrote:

Have any artists actually made any significant money by trying Weedshare, or
Magnatune?

Weedshare (www.weedshare.com) involves a type of file that has DRM. The
listener can play the file up to 3 times and then the listener is asked to
purchase the track (usually around 99 cents).

Magnatune (www.magnatune.com) is an "internet record label" that uses a
shareware approach. Each artist (if accepted to magnatune) releases CDs as
groups of tracks that are playble on the magnatune site. 128K versions of
the songs can be played as many times as the listener wants. The listener
can purchase higher quality versions of the songs, and is allowed to legally
share the files with up to 3 people.

J.

Reading through their stuff makes them look a bit like CD baby but
their contract, (not shown) may read more into the agreement then they
come out and say. They write as though they are non-exclusive but some
of what they say leads me to believe that they would indeed be
exclusive to anything you send in.

When you signed, did they send you a contract (I assume they did) and
would you be willing to clip the part about exclusivity out and post
it?

I wouldn't want to be intrusive to your personal data but I am
curious about how they deal with it. There was a little publishers
double talk that I picked up on.

thanks

jay wrote:
Have any artists actually made any significant money by trying Weedshare, or
Magnatune?

Why not just run your own site so that you can control how it operates
and you control the money that gets paid to you.

I think the public should get used to dealing with individual
musicians and get out of the habit of dealing with corporations or
corporation wannabees.

Instead of going to magnatunes , they should just go directly to your
site.

There really is no reason why people shouldn't get used to going to a
personal band or musician site as opposed to going to some middle-man
site.

Use pay-pal. Or something as popular if there ever is one.

Middle-man sites are still good for promotional purposes , like the new
radio.

Why should people feel more comfortable with magnatunes or cdbaby ?
Why should magnatunes or cdbaby or weedshare get a percentage of your
music ?

Musicians need to get out of the "record label" frame of mind , and
musicians need to start training the public to do the same.

Musicians can distribute and sell globally now , just like Itunes , the
thing is , you can do it just like itunes WITHOUT itunes , just run
your own site.

Use the middleman sites like radio.

Let's get out of this record label frame of mind.

The reason for them is that people go to iTunes to browse and that is
where they may see you for the first time. I do that often.

Another reason for places like CDbaby is that many people don't want
the day-to-day mailing and headache of dealing with the public.

There are reasons to group. I also think you are right that it should
work the way you say. I am sure that there would be a way to make it
work if many musicians got together and either linked to other GOOD
music or used a web ring to do the job. Remember that a small piece of
a large pie is better then all of an empty pan.

jay wrote:

Have any artists actually made any significant money by trying Weedshare, or
Magnatune?

Weedshare (www.weedshare.com) involves a type of file that has DRM. The
listener can play the file up to 3 times and then the listener is asked to
purchase the track (usually around 99 cents).

Magnatune (www.magnatune.com) is an "internet record label" that uses a
shareware approach. Each artist (if accepted to magnatune) releases CDs as
groups of tracks that are playble on the magnatune site. 128K versions of
the songs can be played as many times as the listener wants. The listener
can purchase higher quality versions of the songs, and is allowed to legally
share the files with up to 3 people.

J.


I still think Weed is an absolutely brilliant idea, certainly the most
intelligent of its kind. I just don't know anyone that uses it. Any takers?


M
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