Best Platform for uploading your own music?

[Kaka Tim]

Hi all. Just finished some recording - what do people think is the best platform for uploading it these days? Spotify? It band camp worth bothering with anymore? Not under any illusions about making money via downloads - more about getting the music out there and getting gigs etcc. Cheers in advance.

 

[mojo pixy]

Bandcamp is great - no size limit on uploads but everything must be uncompressed audio, not mpeg or flac (people can d/l in those formats so source files need to be wavs or aifs) Its all very accessible and easy to work with, you can pay for extras like a custom URL. But in general more platforms has to be better, so IME Soundcloud has a limit on total time uploaded, Reverbnation has a per-track size limit. Some people may recommend subscribing to a service to get the music on Spotify and ITunes etc (you can't do this yourself as far as I can tell).

 

[mojo pixy]

All three of the sites I mentioned are free but have extras you can pay for, including a lot of promotional extras. For me Bandcamp is easiest to use and way more flexible, and IMO looks more professional.

 

[ska invita]

Theres packages out there that upload it everywhere
THis kind of thing

https://distrokid.com/

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no idea which is best or what not

 

[ska invita]

IIRC Bandcamp costs about £150+ a year so only worth it if you make that back in sales - its a sales platform fundamentally

youtube can be really good to generate listens - get your friends to like and leave a comment then respond to the comments, helps the algorithm

also 9 Best Places to Upload Your Music Online for Free

 

[girasol]

I use Soundcloud, but it's limited in size, unless you pay (I have 20 tracks there, and there's still space). Also - my YouTube music account allows me to upload my own music. Although I don't think I can share it. So, good for storage and for me to listen to but otherwise pointless.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Got a few fb freinds recomending Distrokids - small annual subsciption and they upload it on mulitple platforms

 

[mojo pixy]

ska invita yes Landr, I was trying to remember its name. It's a mastering platform and its mastering is actually pretty good. You can pay for more mastering algorithms but the free basic one is fine. They have some promotional stuff too but I've never used it.

Bandcamp basic is also free, but there are various extras that can be paid for.

Distrokid, I signed up and paid once and never saw a penny of streaming revenue so never did it again and can't speak to its long-term usefulness. I think existentialist may be subscribed and may have a better opinion.

 

[mojo pixy]

It's worth saying now, Landr seems to have gone pay only.

Bandlab.com offers a free mastering service (only a free signup needed to use it), plus a number of other resources that can be paid for.