The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 17 - Music Streaming Apps and Websites, with guest Charles Penn
Charles Penn is a musician and music producer based in New Jersey. Together with Prescott he discusses the state of music on the Internet, including listening, buying, sharing, and the potential of collaborating world-wide. The conversation moves to music promotion and tactics for artists starting out. Check out Charles’s music on his website, The Sounds of The Underground.
Show Notes & Links
- First episode recorded face-to-face. Skype is awesome, but it’s nice to see people in real life.
- Coverville
- In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond
- YouTube (yes, for music)
- Prescott [still uses] an iPod Classic
- Bob Marley on iTunes
- Google Music
- Juicy, by Notorious B.I.G. on iTunes
- Pandora, for streaming
- Music Genome Project
- Sade on iTunes
- Beats Music Service
- Services are too associated with Social Media (Rdio and Spotify, especially)
- Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil’ Wayne — all artists which Prescott has never heard of
- Daley
- Robin Thicke
- 45 Record Singles
- Beatles-a-Rama
- Apple Records
- iTunes v12 coming soon (to your Mac)
- Google is Skynet
- DRM
- .Mac and iDrive (c. 2001)
- CD Quality is 16-bit 44.1Khz Stereo PCM
- Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube
- Gabrielle Aplin, has been playing her videos from her bedroom for years and is now a big star
- Points on the back-end
- Finding Llweyn Davis
Tools
- Rhapsody
- Spotify
- Rdio
- Shazam
- Pandora
- iTunes internet radio
- ACB Radio for the Blind
- The Halls of Ivy (every episode available for download)
- Amazon Music
- Google Wallet
- YouTube, for sharing your music
- Weebly, for website templates
- ReverbNation
- SoundCloud, for home-grown artists
Techniques
- For Pandora, only vote songs down. Otherwise, you’ll hear the exact same song again and again.
- Search for stations on the Internet Radio stream. Discover something unexpected.
- Exchange features with other up-and-coming artists, then cross-promote for each other
Habits
- Search randomly. Don’t “plan” your music.
- Give away your music to build a fan base. The money will come.
Get The Episode
- Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 17
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