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Old 02-25-2005, 12:58 AM
Tim Fatchen (flyingtadpole)
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Default Just to get this ball rolling:

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 site. My tipping is this will turn into the "killer app" independent music site in the long term.

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 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 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

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