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Hi, all!

Feel free to do a quick introduction if you've joined this instance, or if you're from another instance but interested in the communities here.

I'll go first: I'm Beto, originally from Brazil but living in California. I started writing songs when I was 14 years old, and always loved making music.

I have a one-person band called The Fishermen & the Priestess, and I post all my songs (releases and experimental tracks) on a Funkwhale instance (which is another federated project).

My songs are usually ambient/downtempo and very hopeful. I love using cassette tapes, tape loops, and 4-track recorders, and I'm planning to release my next album on microcassettes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah, CDBaby makes sense... I went with Distrokid because I make a lot of songs, but in the end I only publish a minority of them so maybe CDBaby wouldn't been better for me. I never made enough money to worry about royalties (I just checked and I made $24 overall from Distrokid), but to be fair I don't market my albums other than letting friends now.

One thing I did though was sign up for USISRC.org, so I could get UPC/EAN numbers for my songs. It's a one time fee to get as many numbers as you need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's good to know. Seems required for Distrokid but not CDBaby. Have you used BeatStars at all?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I didn't need it for Distrokid, I just thought it would be cool to be able to assign the numbers to my songs at will. 😝 I haven't heard of BeatStars, it looks interesting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hahahah...that is pretty rad. I looked through some of the guides and saw you're limited to 100,000 a year. Hope that's enough :D.

I suppose if someone was just cranking out generative tunes that wouldn't be too hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ha, for sure, my record is 100 songs in a year, so I have plenty of numbers to spare. 😝