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How to send demo album?
I have 10 at-home recorded original songs that I’ve ordered into an album, and I’ve put them into my own Apple Music account, so I can listen to them start to finish. But I stupidly don’t really know how to share the album with others (mostly just friends until I can get some better recordings done). If I share them on Google Drive, they come up as 10 separate mp3s, and have to be selected one after another. I also tried sharing an Apple Music playlist, as my friend couldn’t access the songs on her account.
Short of going old school and burning a cd, what am I missing here? |
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Soundcloud might be another option, but I'm not sure how uploaded material is organized for consecutive streaming. |
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On soundcloud all the separate recordings of yours can be listed. Don't know about autoplay one after the another but a simple click on one of the recordings will play it.
If you want one recording to play automatically after the other you can yourself combine all of your recordings into a single wav or mp3 file and upload that to such as soundcloud (whose file size limit is four gigabits). Personally I have my own webspace and also use youtube.
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Thanks guys, I definitely have my eye on uploading to Bandcamp or SoundCloud once I get the aforementioned better recordings done. But I was going to wait to to establish a presence online until I’m more satisfied with my songs, as well as recording quality. I didn’t want to put out anything subpar….so I was hoping there was a way to just directly share the album with a few people right now.
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You can get a free Dropbox account and set up a folder. Then you can email the link to whomever you want and they can download the music from their computer.
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I’m wondering with Dropbox though, will the tracks still show up as independent mp3s? |
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Yes, they will be independent mp3s if you upload independent mp3s.
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For "easy consumption" it might be best to simply load a single Youtube "video" with all the sequenced tracks in proper playing order. You can use a single jpg image, song lyrics, etc. as the "video" portion of your upload. You can even index each song title in the Youtube information box so listeners can instantly move to whatever song they wish to listen to. The Youtube preferences can be set when you upload so the video is "private" and only viewable by those that you provide the direct link to. You can do all of the editing and sequencing in something as simple as Reaper, which I use for my Youtube video editing. |
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I'd probably upload them on Soundcloud and then organize them in a playlist. Then just share the link to the playlist.
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For youtube I keep it simple and use Windows Movie Maker (free), load a picture into it and a sound track (wav or mp3) file.
I do not use a video but load in a picture that is the right size for youtube (you can crop and resize the picture before hand if you wish). Make the picture display the length of the soundtrack. With a bit of practice it just takes a few minutes to do. One thing about youtube is that they often stick ads in there before your music starts.
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Derek Coombs Youtube -> Website -> Music -> Tabs Guitars by Mark Blanchard, Albert&Mueller, Paul Woolson, Collings, Composite Acoustics, and Derek Coombs "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Woods hands pick by eye and ear
Made to one with pride and love To be that we hold so dear A voice from heavens above |