In all cases, you're looking at having 50% of your sales going to someone else's pockets. Which is quite alright if you approach it from the mindset that this 70 cents is 100% of your profit. But that's like if your boss told you they were going to cut 50% off your paycheck, but that at least you get to keep 100% of the rest.

You expect to pay some fees for services, but 50% just from the digital store, without even having paid the agregator yet? I'm super not convinced about them. It's way too shady all around.

Yeah I took one look at the website and...no. I'll never trust a "company" that tells me they will distribute my music, free of charge, to all major digital stores, then give me 100% of the profit.

Well, its just my 2 cents. So far they haven't screwed me, but admittedly I've only made like 7.50
(And of course I feel I need to justify the $20 I spent, so my reasoning may not be the most objective)

http://distrokid.com/ $20 a year, and you can upload unlimited tracks on Spotify. (They will also be uploaded to itunes, and several other places) You should check them out!

Do not use Distrokid. They do not have an artist field at the song level and absolutely will not answer any questions when asked about it.

Shady.

I find Dropbox VERY user friendly and it has lots of space for free.

I read the entire post. You've got a wordpress website and need to playback audio. My solution seems to fulfill all your requirements. You can grab a free, easy-to-use plugin (I recommend an HTML5 player) that'll allow you to play back any number of audio files that you can host in the same manner as your wordpress site.

Perhaps you misunderstood my solution?

But the Wordpress site is hosted by Wordpress (free account) and it doesn't host any audio filetypes. I could pay for premium then have unlimited hosting with nifty html player and all that, but I'm trying to be cheap because it's winter and my handjob-in-the-alley business is running a bit slow these days. That's why I was asking for hosting, and not specifically just an HTML player. I just need a place to dump files, but it has to allow streaming, something that a lot of hosts don't seem to offer for free

I've think I've seen people use Dropbox for this type of thing as I believe it allows you to direct link to a resource. Google Drive won't do it natively but you can use a tool like this to generate direct links to pop into an HTML5 player: https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/

I read the entire post. You've got a wordpress website and need to playback audio. My solution seems to fulfill all your requirements. You can grab a free, easy-to-use plugin (I recommend an HTML5 player) that'll allow you to play back any number of audio files that you can host in the same manner as your wordpress site.

Perhaps you misunderstood my solution?

But the Wordpress site is hosted by Wordpress (free account) and it doesn't host any audio filetypes. I could pay for premium then have unlimited hosting with nifty html player and all that, but I'm trying to be cheap because it's winter and my handjob-in-the-alley business is running a bit slow these days. That's why I was asking for hosting, and not specifically just an HTML player. I just need a place to dump files, but it has to allow streaming, something that a lot of hosts don't seem to offer for free

Doesn't it put you into the rotation of bands to discover though? Or can you opt of of that? I'll go take a look, it might be the simplest solution of all.

Hmmm, I don't know if you can opt out of Discover or not. I've never paid it any attention.

jefftheworld wrote:

Why not just use one of many customizable HTML5 players and host it on your own website?

Wild guess here.. but I'm 90% sure you work in software development. Only a programmer would read half the available information before offering a solution that doesn't apply with a sentence that starts with "why not just..."

egr wrote:

Bandcamp works just like you've described. They have embeddable players, you can prohibit downloading, no "radio play", and no limit to how much audio.

Doesn't it put you into the rotation of bands to discover though? Or can you opt of of that? I'll go take a look, it might be the simplest solution of all.

I read the entire post. You've got a wordpress website and need to playback audio. My solution seems to fulfill all your requirements. You can grab a free, easy-to-use plugin (I recommend an HTML5 player) that'll allow you to play back any number of audio files that you can host in the same manner as your wordpress site.

Perhaps you misunderstood my solution?

Why not just use one of many customizable HTML5 players and host it on your own website?

Wild guess here.. but I'm 90% sure you work in software development. Only a programmer would read half the available information before offering a solution that doesn't apply with a sentence that starts with "why not just..."

Doesn't it put you into the rotation of bands to discover though? Or can you opt of of that? I'll go take a look, it might be the simplest solution of all.