Ever clicked on an iTunes link and sworn under your breath as you wait for iTunes to open and demand that you download the latest version of the software before you’re allowed to hear the sample you were after? Well that doesn’t need to happen any more. The iTunes store has now become a lot more browser friendly, allowing you to view content using a normal web browser, rather than taking you to the shop page in their proprietary software. Content can be browsed by genre and artist, but is not yet searchable [EDIT - and you still have to open itunes to hear samples - very silly...]. A much quicker way of getting people to know about the music you’ve distributed through RouteNote.
You could always use our iTunes link maker, if you’re not unhappy with the old method… Just put your name in the search title and follow the steps through to get some HTML code that’s embeddable in your facebook, myspace or website.
Everyone seems to be agreeing that the way to get yourself noticed online is to give away a taster of your music, then give fans the opportunity to buy the rest of your catalogue, t-shirts, tickets and whatever else you can offer on the back of the free sample.
If you want to take this advice, here are a few places you might consider setting up a playlist including some of your music; just make sure you’ve got links back to your own website, or to your music on iTunes (after we’ve down your digital music distribution, obviously).
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists – Set up a list including your video that you can embed into your own website, facebook or myspace.
http://mixtape.me/ – Free streaming site where you can upload your own tracks and mash up other peoples – make sure you put your info and gig dates in the liner notes for your playlist
http://sharemyplaylists.com/ – Spotify’s dedicated playlist hosting site. In it’s infancy, but a nice way of getting people to your music really easily (especially if we’ve already got your music online with them).
http://8tracks.com/ – A hosting and discovery site for short playlists (at least 1/2 an hour of music)
then of course there’s always iTunes – putting up podcasts is a little tricky if you’re not using a mac, but here’s the guide page on how to produce your own podcasts
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html – with the added bonus that you can link people straight to your content on itunes (also click here to use our itunes linkmaker for other sites).
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