Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Speaking broadly to the question of setting up online - I have a myspace site for my 
electronic project (Aeriae) just because it's myspace, the outrageously popular service. It's 
easy to have a page there, you can keep a few songs there at a time, etc.

The place that's my home though (until I finish the Aeriae webpage) is 
www.garageband.com

If you don't know about it, garageband is a totally review oriented site. Your songs enter 
competitions in chosen genres, where they're reviewed (written reviews) and rated. But to 
be able to enter the comp, you have to review others' songs in blind faceoffs first. There's 
a great system of checks and balances that make it all basically work. The thing I value the 
most are the written reviews. It's much more gratifying than just watching a download 
counter increase and having no clue what's happening with the people doing the 
downloading.

However... even if you aren't interested in the reviewing angle, I'd still recommend 
garageband as a good venue for nice - and free- presentation of  your tracks online, 
because the mp3s you upload receive no further sound-altering encoding, and can be 
streamed both in a lo-fi dialup version or regularly for broadband at the recipient's 
preference.

In terms of selling them, when my CD's ready later this year I plan to use CDBaby. There's 
capacity for an auto link for it from garageband, and obviously I'll link to it from my own 
site when it's ready, and probably from the written section on myspace too.

Others have already discussed myspace's limited capacities for selling online. I think it's a 
good idea to be on myspace because of its popularity and 'cos it's easy for you to do, so 
you may as well. But worth considering other options to offer better presentation of your 
mp3s online and also for selling either mp3s or real CDs.

- Wade
---
http://www.garageband.com/artist/aeriae
http://www.myspace.com/aeriae