[Dixielandjazz] Part 2: DigStation and Other Options

[BillSargentDrums at aol.com]

DigStation and Other Options

To see what I’m talking about  there, go  to:

http://www.digstation.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?albumid=ALB000013077


DigStation is the best I’ve found, and here’s why:

1. They  give you 100% of your sales revenue. This is a recent change, and 
even before  their payout was one of the highest. They said they may start 
charging a $10 or  so fee to carry our CDs (mp3s), but so far not.

2. They have very  high quality mp3 downloads. Their downloads include: 192 
kbps CBR MP3 Audio  Files, Album Cover Art and/or Liner notes. Most companies 
don’t provide the  artwork & liner notes option.

3. I can get sales info at any  time.

Two downside to DigStation:

1. The currently  don’t have a music Widget, so you have to work with links 
or graphic links. That  will probably change in the future.

VERY IMPORTANT: On all of the  sites I’ve joined that offer CD (mp3) sales 
and I did not like their terms,  percentages, song sample options, I just place 
a link to my DigStation on that  particular site instead of using their “in 
house” option.

2. The  only way you can be listed on DigStation is by having your CD 
produced by one of  their replication partners, such Oasis or Discmakers. The GOOD 
NEWS is when you  get your CD done by them, they do all the work listing it for 
you on  DigStation.



OK, so you didn’t get your CD done with Oasis, what are your  options?

First, STAY FAR AWAY FROM SNOCAP!!! I strongly advise  against listing your 
mp3s with SnoCap as all I’ve heard are horror stories and  no payments made. 
STAY AWAY!

An interesting option is the Website  Music Player. Go  to:

http://www.websitemusicplayer.com/index.php

It  gives you all kinds of flexibility as you as it is a store you can create 
and  place on any website you wish. You pay a monthly or annual membership 
for the  file hosting & bandwidth. This solution really gives you the most 
options,  with some awesome features including collecting the emails from all the 
orders,  BUT unless you’re selling a good number of downloads, this may not be 
worth the  investment.

Other options that rate better than  many:

http://www.nimbit.com/        80% payout



http://musicane.com/    
 
For all free accounts musicane pays you 60% of each sale you make. If you  
would like to earn 80% of all of your sales revenue, you can subscribe to  
musicane for 19.99/ month. Musicane gives your fans the option of selling your  
music on their site and earning a commission.



http://fandoodle.com/  
 
FanDoodle has created a new, patent pending way to distribute music where  
Fans get paid to promote music. They (the Fans) get 20% of the proceeds of each  
album sold as a result of their promotion activities. Here's how it works:  
Artists invite Fans to be partners. Fans are directed to an Artist's page at  
FanDoodle.com where they get code for banner ads and text links. These banners  
and text links take visitors to a page where the Artist's CD is sold. Fans  
insert this code in their web pages and emails and get paid $2.00 - $4.00 per 
CD  sold. FanDoodle.com and its partner, FreakyDoodle Records, handle the 
tracking  of Fan sales, payment of earnings via Paypal, and warehousing and mailing 
of the  CD's.


Hope this is helpful to  someone!


Bill
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BillSargentBands.com

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