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Earn royalties on Last.fm

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:08 am
by ken
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. "

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:11 am
by Reist
That sounds pretty good ...

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:41 am
by Billy's Little Trip
Hmmm, and I've finally come to grips with the fact that I will die unknown in an unmarked grave, penniless.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:31 am
by Hoblit
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:02 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
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. :wink:

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

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:31 pm
by Caravan Ray
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

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:14 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
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 Image
Dancing and pissing....sounds like a party to me.

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:22 pm
by ken
I went ahead and signed up for this today. I uploaded 4 "albums".

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

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:15 pm
by fluffy
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."

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:04 pm
by Kill Me Sarah
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).

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:11 pm
by fluffy
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:22 pm
by Kill Me Sarah
Has anyone made any money off it yet?

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:24 pm
by fluffy
Doubtful. Their subscription service just started and is still in limited beta AFAIK.

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:49 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
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. :wink:

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:54 am
by fluffy
Oh jeeze, I never noticed the pun before. Heh, that actually is pretty funny.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:18 am
by Kill Me Sarah
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".

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:15 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
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.
Image

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:14 pm
by Kill Me Sarah
Dude, that idea is fantastic. I didn't use it exactly, but expanded on that idea. You rock.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:18 pm
by jimtyrrell
I just uploaded Permanent Record. I'll do the Drinking Songs albums later.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:35 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:53 pm
by Kill Me Sarah
Here's what I came up with:

Image

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

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:29 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
That's actually what I did first, then whited out the text in the speech bubble and added the title. :wink:
But it looks better your way I think. If all the text is your album info type stuff.