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Where do you Host your original music

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don21480 said:
Is there anywhere other than Soundcloud to host your original music that is not a site for selling like Bandcamp but makes it easy to send songs or playlists to people?
I've got 25-30 original recorded songs and I'm not trying to be on Spotify or to sell the songs or find fans but do like to send them to my friends and a link via email to a simple player would be awesome - any ideas?
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YouTube?

I haven't checked recently, but a few years back, more people listened to music on YouTube than all the streaming services combined. It might have changed but it's still a good option because people still listen to a lot of music there without needing a subscription or a special app. Just right in their browser.

You don't have to be a video editing expert neither. Just take the master WAV file, dump it into a simple video editing app like iMovie, and put a pic of your project's logo as a still as the image. iMovie makes stuff like that incredibly easy. Drag-drop-done.

If you're feeling ambitious, you can even dump a bunch of different photos and let it slide-show for the length of the song. You can even simply add some text over the image.

Export with the highest Video & Audio settings. Upload the videos to your YouTube Channel. Publish them. Then put them in a YouTube Playlist. You can link to individual songs or the playlist as a whole.
 
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don21480 said:
Is there anywhere other than Soundcloud to host your original music that is not a site for selling like Bandcamp but makes it easy to send songs or playlists to people?
I've got 25-30 original recorded songs and I'm not trying to be on Spotify or to sell the songs or find fans but do like to send them to my friends and a link via email to a simple player would be awesome - any ideas?
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We sign our souls over to distro kid and our tracks magically appear on all services at once. It’s great in the sense that anyone can access the tracks with the service they prefer. It’s not so great because you end up making somewhere between $0 and a fraction of a penny for each play.
 

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