Managing music from a phone is convenient. You can upload files, approve artwork, check earnings and change release details from almost anywhere. It is also easy to make a costly mistake on a small screen.…
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Asia is not one music market. China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and other territories have different streaming services, fan cultures, languages and release practices. Independent artists can reach these markets through international…
Music distributors often promote the number of platforms they deliver to. One may advertise 100 stores. Another may claim 150 or more than 400. The larger number sounds better. But store count is only useful…
Royalty-split tools can automate payments between artists, producers and collaborators. They do not decide who legally owns the music. A technical split is an instruction to divide income. The underlying ownership should still be agreed…
A track can generate millions of TikTok views without creating a meaningful music audience. Another song may have fewer views but drive thousands of saves, searches and streams. That is why artists should look beyond…
Snapchat has launched a new music discovery feature that allows users to share the Spotify songs they are listening to directly through Snap Map. Called Now Playing, the feature lets Snapchat users connect their Spotify…
Music Artwork Sizes for Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Social PlatformsArtists often create one piece of artwork and use it everywhere. That can produce blurry profile images, badly cropped text and thumbnails that make no…
Music platforms close. A company may run out of funding, change strategy, sell its technology or discontinue one part of its service. When that happens, artists and producers can lose much more than access to…
Groovy was once one of the most popular ways to play music in a Discord server. However, the original Groovy bot closed in August 2021 and can no longer be added to Discord. Fortunately, several…
Editing an audio file does not always require expensive music software or a complicated digital audio workstation. RouteNote Convert offers a growing collection of free online audio tools that can convert, edit, analyse and transform…
