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Using
Audio Pages to Promote Your Music
How
They Look
Realaudio
vs. Mp3
Using Audio Pages To Promote Your Music or Site
Why
have an audio page with us? By getting an audio page, your music
will be played in real time from this site. It means you click
and it plays. Also, your music won't be downloadable to disk,
since it is streamed from InternetMusic.net with the realaudio
format.
You
can use an audio page to promote your songs, act, other website(s)
or improve your chances to get a record deal. You can also use
it for the sale of your cd, vinyl or cassette release, as
it gives potential buyers a sample of your material, and to record
company executives, an "on line on demand" demonstration
of your work.
The
sound quality will not be close to cd quality like the Mp3 format,
therefore pirating your stuff will be commercially impossible!
Your
audio page comes listed on our local search engine (Site Navigator)
and you'll be found by: artist name, music style, and even by
song name search! Now, because the page is in actuality an HTML
page, with your own personal html title tags, all the search engines
on the web will eventually pick up your audiopage's address, making
it a fantastic promotional tool.
For
Instance, our artist Zilo Groove, if you go to AltaVista.com Search
Engine, type on the search box "Zilo Groove" and you'll
find his audio page is third position (click
here to prove that). The main reason why he is not first or
second is because on first position is his main website and second
is the location of his mp3 music files!
We
also from time to time, invite record label execs to visit and
listen to new artists (subject to our webmaster's criteria).Our
current list contains more than 500 music industry people, increasing
this way, your chances for exposure, however, WE DON'T MAKE TO
ANYONE PROMISES, EITHER VERBALLY OR IN WRITING that you'll get
the desired results.
Why?,
well, even the beatles and Elton John were turned down by all
the labels of their time, so who knows what hits next! Could it
be you?, why not!
Because
the price for bandwidth and memory space is not cheap, we have
to charge a nominal set up fee of $25.00 plus $100.00, for converting
your music to the realaudio format and streaming all your music
files (prices might change without notice). Now, if you have already
converted your music to the realaudio format with the correct
time specs, the conversion fee will be waived and what you pay
is the $25.00 set up charge and audio streaming fee of $50.00.
You
can have either 2 songs of up to 5 minutes of length, or 4 sound
clips of your music of 1 min. 30 sec. of length (we can edit them
if needed at no extra charge). These realaudio files could stay
up to 6 months on our server. Of course you can request to add
or reinsert information, but for an extra charge.
A
picture or photo is also included in this package with all scanning
and editing fees included. Pictures are generally 400X400 pixels.
Effective
March 2001.- Get an audio page and you are automatically subscribed
as a new member of InternetMusic.net for a period of 3 months,
after that, you'll be charged our one year subscription fee, or
if you prefer, a 3 or 6 month subscription. Of course, you could
unsubscribe by email notification prior to the end of your 3 month
subscription and still keep your audio page for
3 more months.
Current
Internetmusic.net members, get a $30.00 discount on this particular
service.
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How
They Look
We
feel that our audiopages have a wide view and easy interface,
which makes one's experience, down to the point and fast to access.
Check
out a few examples at:
http://www.internetmusic.net/zilo/
http://www.internetmusic.net/kandii/
Did
we mention that you get an url with your name like internetmusic.net/you
and links to your other web site or email account? Your email
or ours, since we offer a free email server as well.
Hurry
up, establish your presence on the internet for the next 6 months
or use us as a portal to your main site, don't forget, our audio
pages are searchable by most major search engines.
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Realaudio
vs. Mp3
Since
its debut in the middle of the 90's, Realaudio, a digital music
format developed for the web by Real Networks, made listening
to music without downloading, a reality, while MP3 a more recent
format, takes a while to download, requires a higher transfer
speed for audition, which means faster modems or high tech connections
to the web like DSL.
But
that's not the real problem; MP3 has a near cd sound quality compression
scheme, and although realaudio can get to sound, also pretty good
in stereo with a high sampling and bit resolution for a file to
transfer over the networks, we do not believe that neither mp3
nor high bit quality realaudio, is appropriate for musicians who
yet are not signed or who are trying best as they can, to sell
their music on the web.
Why?,
because there is rampant bootlegging all over the web, not a good
thing for an artist that wants to sell his music. Artists shopping
for record deals also run the risk of having their musical or
sound recording ideas ripped off by individuals that own digital
samplers.
A
mono, low sampling and bit resolution realaudio sound file sounds
like an AM radio transmission but is streamable (more receptive)
by more people than any other format on the web.
And
let's get real here, who is going to download and wait an average
of 20 minutes or more, in order to listen to an unknown artist?
We
believe Mp3 is good for listeners but not for musicians necessarily,
unless of course, a musician is promoting a song that he wishes
to give away.
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