Sell your tunes using Myspace!

[Jonny Dubbs]

Will be interesting to see what impact this has on the music industry

Hey MySpace artists,

Music has always been at the heart of the MySpace community. As an artist, you have a place to connect directly with music lovers and build a fan base. Now, through our partnership with SNOCAP, you can sell digital downloads right on your MySpace page. This is something we’ve wanted to bring to you for a long time, and now it’s here!

It’s really simple. Just click the “Create Your MySpace Music Store” link on your Home page to register with SNOCAP (or click here), upload your music, and set your price. Your store will be automatically created on your MySpace profile right underneath the MySpace player, and a new “Manage Music Store” link will appear on your home page which lets you edit your songs or change the price. Once you’ve created your store your fans will be able to purchase your tracks right off your profile and even post your store on their own profiles, and you’ll get paid on a monthly basis. Click The Format
to check it out.

You don’t need to wait to have a CD’s worth of music to sell. Record something tonight and make it available immediately. Or upload a few tracks from the soundboard recording of your last show. A MySpace/SNOCAP MyStore puts the power of distribution in your hands. And best of all, it doesn’t limit any of your choices. You can still stream up to 4 tracks for free from the MySpace player on your page. You keep all the rights to your music. And this isn’t exclusive – you can put a MySpace/SNOCAP MyStore on your MySpace page and paste the store anywhere else on the web you use for promotion; plus you can also sell through an aggregator or any other digital retailer you have access to.

You already use MySpace to market & promote – now you can sell your songs!

[sNyx]

It's a bloody shame all these people have invested so much time, energy and mostly trust into a absolutely savage and poorly cored system. There will be a fair cry in the world when in ten years everyone realized the amount of hard work lost. Big ups the movement :y:

[Jonny Dubbs]

Meh… any software implementation is a work in progress, granted it may be poorly built, the potential for it to generate some serious revenue could provide the incentive to increase the level of quality.

[sNyx]

No doubt it's a money maker, that was never my intended point. Myspace is a single powering industry which branches out in the millions of markets. However to trust in such a loose cannon with all your photos, music and otherwise is a foolish practice. Maybe you're smarter but the general demographic is not. Make $5-$20 month from myspace and be happy, kudos. Make $200-$1,000,000+ outside the inept world of myspace and respect.

[mekim]

Originally Posted by Jonny Dubbs

Meh… any software implementation is a work in progress, granted it may be poorly built, the potential for it to generate some serious revenue could provide the incentive to increase the level of quality.

no, like everything else on myspace, they'll just keep tacking on quick-fixes.

[Jonny Dubbs]

Hrm, well yeah I see your point. But you would assume that if they are going go forward with this, certain checks and balances would have to be implemented. IE: a certain SLA, redundancies, DRPs, etc . Once the business end of things broadens its scope the need for those types of things develop. As it stands now, no one is going to loose millions of dollars if the myspace servers crash, and if they did, well it’s a service that’s being used for free, what did you expect? Also from an artist perspective, or from the perspective of anyone who has ever done work on a computer, its common sense not to leave your work in a single place without backup. Now does everyone have common sense? Err no.

[Jonny Dubbs]

Originally Posted by mekim

no, like everything else on myspace, they'll just keep tacking on quick-fixes.

Well if I was an artist that wanted to use the service, and part of the earning went to Myspace or their affiliates, I would want to ensure there was a certain level of quality in exchange for my financial contribution. If that could not be assured then I simply wouldn’t use the service. When it’s a free service, quality of service doesn’t really matter.

[mekim]

sort of like all the advertisers on there now who are paying for everything to work properly? it'll be a cold day in hell before they fix all the problems with myspace. it was pretty obviously a quick-hack website that they kept fixing rather than designing it from the ground up to scale well for the popularity it has now.

[mux]

hold up now, didn't Google just buy MySpace?

Google has some very, very smart people working for them. I'd expect myspace to get noticibly more stable in the next six months.

[mekim]

no, they didn't buy myspace.

[Gusto]

but there's nothing stopping myspace from rebuilding their site from scratch and porting their users over to the new code. if they start dealing with large amounts of money, they'll have to do something, and someone there has to realize that. but yeah, until then i wouldn't exactly put much stock in it. however, for a recording artist that's just starting out and can't or doesn't want to sign to a label, this is an awesome free alternative to get started.

[wishbone]

Originally Posted by mux

hold up now, didn't Google just buy MySpace?

Google has some very, very smart people working for them. I'd expect myspace to get noticibly more stable in the next six months.

News Corp owns myspace. aka Fox.

And that was what, almost a year ago? Myspace's coding is utter crap. The best coding ever done for a social networking site is hands down facebook. The connections you can make, how people, photos, etc. link together......myspace is really chaotic in comparison.

[mux]

I stand corrected; Google purchased the exclusive search rights to myspace and ign, not the sites themselves.

[Jonny Dubbs]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oid=1772543007