Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Thanks for this. My band's account was disabled as I refused to  
reveal all band members' real names as they are put on the band's  
home page along with some other unnecessary info, this was exactly  
the reason why my friends/mates/clients stayed away from setting up  
their sites there.. Also, their player lacks quality compared to that  
of Broadjam. Also, I find reviews at Broadjam more professional and  
balanced... The only advantage (and I admit it's a huge one) over  
Broadjam is you can have your band's URL for free and use it for  
distributing your music. All this is just MMHO and YMMV.

Best,

Andy

On Apr 4, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Wade wrote:

> 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