SITES FOR YOUR MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS PART TWO
MESSIAN DREAD REPORTS FOR STUDIO DUBROOM
WWW, September 2014 - In Part two, Messian
Dread continues to report on his experiences with uploading his music to a
number of Online Music Distributors (OMD's). This time he revisited MYSPACE.com,
LAST.fm, ICOMPOSITIONS.com and talks about creating an artist page at
AMAZON.com. And, oh yes, a small website called "You Tube".
The memory hole. It's an absolute hole and it
can give you quite a bit of surprises. This is what I got when I tried to upload
my music to the revamped My Space website. I know, I know, it's obsolete and for
many years I just did not pay any attention to my account. In the mean time, I
had forgotten to pay my bill for dubroom.com (about 40 dollars or so) which I
used for my email and the folks at NXS Amsterdam decided to sell it to another
company which is now trying to sell it for about 2400
dollars last time I checked. Good
to know Dubroom.org survived NXS. They shouldn't be in business anyway.
MYSPACE.com
It looks good, especially when you consider
that My Space has been bought by the good folks at Fox, known for their love for
humanity and truth in general. I thought it would be nice to just revamp my
account at that revamped My Space website but to my chagrin I discovered I could
not log in due to the fact that I no longer had access to my old email account.
Problems.
Apparently, I am not the only one with this
problem because My Space has this standard link that you can click when you lost
access to your old myspace account. I filled in the form, and wrote the proof
that I am who I am. That's pretty easy when you are Messian Dread at the
Dubroom. Still it was really complicated for the person at My Space who was
assigned to my case. He, she, it, did not understand what I meant so I wrote
back that I would love a human reply. I got it and I got access. It took several
days.
When you have a fast computer running Windows 8
or something like that, my Space is nice but it's not that nice. The reasons are
obvious. "Everyone" knows, My Space is a ghost town. There simply is
nobody. I have zero plays. Zero.
https://myspace.com/messiandread/music/songs
LAST.fm
I had a page at LAST.fm but because of the
nature of my recent productions I wanted to change things a bit more. After all,
my new productions are definitely not just about me and I want to title my
productions the way I title them. That's not possible at LAST.fm without
creating a new artist, or in this case, label.
So I did.
I started to upload my new production and I got
a notice. I had uploaded my Dennis Alcapone tracks and the system had recognized
that name as being known. My account was blocked until it was reviewed by
LAST.fm staff. Perhaps you think I was annoyed, but that was not the case. I
thought this was a very, very good thing because it doesn't just give credit to
the LAST.fm website but also to the artists and producers who upload their
tunes.
Of course everything was easily cleared. This
was a very pleasant experience.
The website itself gives you the possibility to
upload your music and make it available for free download. Nice thing, right?
Even nicer is the fact that they let you deeplink to your uploaded MP3 files,
just like I do on the
music download page at my website. There's no limitation like with Sound
Cloud, so there is another reason why it is a mystery to me why Sound Cloud is
that popular.
http://www.last.fm/label/Dubroom+Productions
ICOMPOSITIONS.com
When you're looking for plays and feedback, you
should definitely try out ICOMPOSITIONS.com. This website is clearly aimed at
musicians and can serve as intermediary vehicle for collaborations. You need to
really look, as it is assumed people know their way with computers a little bit
more than, let's say, My Space. And they do. I have zero plays at My Space, now
look at what I got at I Compositions (click to enlarge):
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