We all know what a pain it is to damage an electronic device. Whether you stupidly drop your phone down the toilet, put your iPod through the wash or lose all your data on your laptop (Disclosure: Only one of these did not happen to me), you are sure to be kicking yourself. Either you have to restore your phone numbers into a banjaxed brick of a phone with a broken screen, or you have to convince Apple customer care that the iPod just inexplicably ceased functioning (Tip: Sunlight and hairdrying it for a week might help, but I didn’t tell you…), or you have to transfer all your files from that external hard-drive you cleverly bought. But here’s a very 21stcentury dilemma. What happens when both your external hard-drives containing all your music, videos, photos and important work files stop working at the same time??
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With the announcement last week that Apple will remove digital rights restrictions from their entire catalogue in the iTunes Store and with the glut of well-stocked competitive digital distribution points such as eMusic and 7Digital, now is a good time for independent musicians to get their songs up on the web to benefit from digital sales. It can be a bit bewildering trying to find out how at times so here are the best options available to help you on your way.
The two main digital distro players in the market are CDBaby.com and Tunecore.com. Both offer your music on the biggest sites including iTunes, eMusic, and Amazon MP3 along with a host of other services and both will make no claim on your copyright.
CDBaby offers physical distribution as well as digital, takes a 9% cut from your sales, costs a once-off fee of $35 to setup and charges $20 for a universal barcode which is required for every album sold by law. Tunecore deals only in digital distribution, takes no cut of your sales but charge an annual maintenance fee of $20 to keep your album up on its partners. The initial setup is about $20 also but a barcode is provided free of charge. Unlike CDBaby which requires you to post them a physical CD, Tunecore allows you to upload lossless files to their server on the spot. Continue Reading..»
