Earn royalties on Last.fm

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:08 am

This sounds like a good opportunity for us.

Ken

http://blog.last.fm/

"now unsigned artists can put their music on Last.fm and be paid directly for every song played. This helps to level the playing-field—now you can make music, upload it to Last.fm and earn money for each play. If you make music, you can sign up to participate for free.

We’re not printing money to pay for this—but the business model is simple enough: we are paying artists and labels a share of advertising revenue from the website. "

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:11 am

That sounds pretty good ...

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:41 am

Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:31 am

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.

Just make sure I have a map to it so I can still find my way to piss on it.

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:02 pm

Hoblit wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.
Just make sure I have a map to it so I can still find my way to piss on it.

Just look for a spot on Earth where a marijuana plant magically grows each spring.

Ok, I may have stolen that idea from Where the Red Fern Grows.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:31 pm

Hoblit wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.
Just make sure I have a map to it so I can still find my way to piss on it.

Don't splash on my dancing shoes

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:14 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
Hoblit wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.
Just make sure I have a map to it so I can still find my way to piss on it.
Don't splash on my dancing shoes

Oh, you guys

Dancing and pissing....sounds like a party to me.

ken · Post by **ken** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:22 pm

I went ahead and signed up for this today. I uploaded 4 "albums".

http://www.last.fm/music/Ken+Mahru

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:15 pm

I hate the music uploader. Also I hate how there's no way to upload a song as a single. So now the four Sockpuppet trakcs I've uploaded are on an album called "stuff" and I can't see any way to change that.

Also some jerk who isn't Jeff seems to have taken the name "add music."

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:04 pm

Maybe this was discussed further in a different thread but I couldn't find any. I was listening to Thanks For The Frisbee in my iTunes and looking at my last.fm player which informs me that similar artists are Melvin, State Shirt, those meddling kids, Ross Durand, and Frankie Big Face.

Did you guys set yourselves up as "similar artists", or did Last.fm actually pick that up through usage? Also, I posted a few songs there myself under my real name (I've submitted under two many names to pick just one).

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:11 pm

Last.fm picks it up through usage. Generally, anyone who's shown up on Song Fight gets associated with other people who show up on Song Fight.

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:22 pm

Has anyone made any money off it yet?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:24 pm

Doubtful. Their subscription service just started and is still in limited beta AFAIK.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:49 pm

fluffy wrote:I hate the music uploader. Also I hate how there's no way to upload a song as a single. So now the four Sockpuppet trakcs I've uploaded are on an album called "stuff" and I can't see any way to change that.

Also some jerk who isn't Jeff seems to have taken the name "add music."

Well, a band called Sockpuppet with an album called "stuff", is a pretty good name for multiple reasons, lol. I can picture the album cover art. If I wasn't so lazy right now, I'd be making and album cover for this.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:54 am

Oh jeeze, I never noticed the pun before. Heh, that actually is pretty funny.

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:18 am

I need to come up with something for my cover art. The name of my "album" is "If You're Gone Then You're Not Here".

Billy's Little Trip · Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:15 pm

Kill Me Sarah wrote:I need to come up with something for my cover art. The name of my "album" is "If You're Gone Then You're Not Here".

First thing that came to mind, meh.

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:14 pm

Dude, that idea is fantastic. I didn't use it exactly, but expanded on that idea. You rock.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:18 pm

I just uploaded Permanent Record. I'll do the Drinking Songs albums later.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:35 pm

Kill Me Sarah wrote:Dude, that idea is fantastic. I didn't use it exactly, but expanded on that idea. You rock.

yeah, that one is pretty plain. But the "you are here" type map thing came to mind. But the little arrow should say, "you aren't here", lol. Just a knee jerk image.

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:53 pm

Here's what I came up with:

Edit: I wonder if something like "An EP by" would be better than "Last Updated by"?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:29 pm

That's actually what I did first, then whited out the text in the speech bubble and added the title.

But it looks better your way I think. If all the text is your album info type stuff.