The Busy Creator Podcast with Prescott Perez-Fox

The Busy Creator 17, Music Streaming Apps & Websites, w/guest Charles Penn

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Charles Penn is a musician and music producer based in New Jersey. Together with Prescott they discuss the state of music on the Internet, including listening, buying, sharing, and the potential to 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.

 

 
 
 
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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.
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