MP3 Insider 117: An interview with TuneCore's Jeff Price

Got a hit on your hands you want to sell on iTunes? TuneCore is an easy way to make it happen.

In this bonus episode of the MP3 Insider, I interview TuneCore's founder Jeff Price about the state of online music distribution and TuneCore's role in providing indie musicians and labels a one-stop solution for selling music through iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, and other online music stores.

If you're an independent musician trying to figure out how to sell your music online without getting screwed, Jeff offers a ton of great information in this interview, including online payout rates from major retailers, how to use iTunes trending reports to plan tours, and the power of creative recording.

There's also a great story in here about TuneCore's leveraging of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and other scalable infrastructure services, for taking uploaded songs and automatically reformatting them for all the different online retail requirements. Who knew cloud drones could help you sell music?

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Episode 117

How much do various online music stores pay per song?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

[indiemusicalltheway]

i like what tuncecore can offer, i just dont like their pricing structure...start up costs? maintenence fees? charged for each store i want to be distributed on? i dunno. i got my eye on a new start up called Record Union, i think il wait till they are up and running before i upload my own tracks.

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