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Tim Fatchen (flyingtadpole)
02-25-2005, 12:58 AM
Just to get this ball rolling: free hosting sites that I've used or am at least registered on:

http://music.download.com
http://www.soundclick.com
http://www.audiostreet.net
http://mp3.com.au

All of these allow you to set up multiple "artists". This may be necessary if, like me, you have music in dramatically different styles (eg blues+opera+neo-classical) and are actually chasing a specific audience for each. It's not necessary if you don't mind your "artist" classification (eg post-punk) also having music in it of a wildly different style (eg baroque).

http://music.download.com is a download-only site. It doesn't stream music, so anyone looking for you has to download first before they can play you. Highest quality files--mp3's have to be 192kps, not the usual 128kps. Getting an artist set up is straightforward but long. They are very touchy about standards and it takes up to five days to get uploaded material through their editors, during which you can't change or upload things. They do refuse material. Removing something is not straightforward either, at present. There is a limit (50MB) but that can be 1x50MB piece or 50x1MB. If you are seriously after a general audience or following, they have by far the biggest "catch", being one of three buttons on the giant www.download.com (http://www.download.com) site. My tipping is this will turn into the "killer app" independent music site in the long term.

www.soundclick.com (http://www.soundclick.com) has streaming at hi-fi and lo-fi. You can choose whether or not to allow downloads of your music file. After the initial application, which is pretty short and snappy as these things go, material submitted goes up pretty well straight away (and you can take it done likewise too). They seem very relaxed with the standard of what goes up; allowing their charts to sort things out for the general public. No apparent limits on number of files. This is my pick for putting up examples for entertainment or critique: the rec.music.makers.songwriting and similar newsgroup use soundclick for this purpose. Beware, though: it releases an irritating pop-up add each time you call it up (just like the Australian Stock Exchange!)

www.audiostreet.net (http://www.audiostreet.net) was part of the fallout from the disappearance of the original MP3.com Very similar to soundclick, streaming at lo-fi and hi-fi, but with a look and feel almost identical to the old MP3.com Straightforward to use, no popup ad. I hardly use it at this stage, don't know why not. Widest specified range of genres of these three.

(BTW, with all of these you will HAVE to specify genre/subgenre. For dinosaurs like me who've been out of it, this can be a real drag. But you're stuck with it).

www.mp3.com.au (http://www.mp3.com.au) I can't help but think this site parasitised the demise of the old mp3.com However--its another possibility, but the genre range is a bit limited. Streaming, simple signup and upload, heavily geared to popular music.

There are multitudes of others, whose virtues I do not know.

Oh...and MP3.com has re-emerged in name only, but you need to be signed to a record label to use it!!!

Regards
Tim
http://music.download.com/timfatchen
http://music.download.com/internetopera
http://www.soundclick.com/flyingtadpole

Mark Walsen (markwa)
02-25-2005, 01:21 AM
Tim,

Thank you for providing a good introduction for where to upload audio files!

Cheers
-- Mark

Sherry Crann (sherry)
03-04-2005, 01:34 PM
Howdy,

I also wanted to add another site to the list. It's EZ Folk at http://ezfolk.com/ I'm not on it, but I'm considering it. A friend of mine has some of his music listed there and at soundclick, and his experience has been that both sites are about the same, except that EZ Folk features folk music as opposed to the wider field found at SoundClick, and for him, his music gets more "hits" at EZ Folk. He plays fingerstyle guitar, though, so it probably just fits the scene better at EZ Folk.

EZ Folk is also free, offers unlimited uploads, and they only ask that you don't upload copyrighted material. They keep to the copyright requirement, too, as he had posted a song he thought was copyright-free, but he was wrong, and they made him take it off.

So, there's yet another venue for those who may be interested.

ttfn,
Sherry

chynna
11-13-2005, 07:29 AM
are there any websites you can host your music without being an artist? i mean, can you get a url for a song you have on your computer?
thanks, email me if you have suggestions

Sherry Crann (sherry)
11-13-2005, 06:08 PM
Howdy chynna,

I'm not quite clear what you mean by "url for a song you have on your computer." The places that we've been talking about in this thread are for sites that will host audio files of songs that you have done, and are not copyright protected by another person.

There is also a section of this forum entitled "Share Your Music", where you can post songs that you have made or arranged with MidiNotate products. You can use the "Forum Home" link at the top of this page to go to the "front door" as it were, and then click on the "Share Your Music" link to get to the category you want.

ttfn,
Sherry

Clyde (clyde)
11-13-2005, 09:42 PM
Hi Chynna,

It is not a good idea to try and allow people to have access to your computer from the internet, particualrly these days with viruses, spyware etc - unless you are very techno savvy.

You need to copy your file to some site that specialises in 'hosting' as indicated above in the forum stream by Tim.

One 'free' way of doing this is to use the 'free' hosting site that many ISP providers give you. Here (in Australia) most ISPs give you a free 20MBs which is enough for a few MP3 files.

I have written a 'Getstarted' help document at one of my websites at: http://www.getstartedhere.info/Web_Page.php which you may find explains in non-technical terms how you do all this.

Cheers ... Clyde

Noraly Flores (nflores13)
02-14-2006, 01:24 AM
Hi,

I have a page on myspace and I would like to put my own music. I currently record my own music and would like for others to be able to listen to it. How do I go about doing that?

Clyde (clyde)
02-14-2006, 01:51 AM
Hi Noraly,
I assume you are asking how can you have your own webpage, or at least get your music 'out there' on the web.

There are a number of sites that will host your music, many of them for free. If its Christian music, I can advise you on some of them.

If you want to have your own web page, then that is not too difficult and the costs are minimal these days. If you want to go that way and know nothing about it, you may need to have someone guide you through the various steps. I have outlined the steps in a site of mine at: http://www.getstartedhere.info/index.php?Prg=Course_Web_Page which will give you an idea of what is involved.

I'm happy to help people get started on this, and have done my own site at www.jazzworship.com (http://www.jazzworship.com) and help Gracie Knafel (another Composer users) with her site at www.gracesongs.net (http://www.gracesongs.net) and also a Christian music licensing site: www.usedbypermission.org (http://www.usedbypermission.org).

Please contact me if I can be of further assistance...

Clyde