Dear fellow musicians,

Today, I'd like to share with you another of my favourite Bandcamp's alternatives!
It is called Faircamp, and it is a static site generator for audio producers.

This free and open-source tool, allows you to easily generate webpages for your music that can be self-hosted.
While Faircamp doesn't have any promotional features itself, @keefmarshall created a webring, where you could be discovered (as long as you join the ring).

You can find all the features on Faircamp website.
Meljoann's extensive blog post walks you through getting started with faircamp on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The Faircamp webring can be found here.
Radio Free Fedi is providing some help for Faircamp hosting. Read more here.

Faircamp is kindly offered by Simon Repp.

Enjoy! 🙃

Dear fellow musicians,

Today, I'd like to share with you one of my favourite Bandcamp's alternatives!
It is called Mirlo (@[email protected]) and, from their website:

• Mirlo provides a user-friendly space to help musicians sell music, manage subscriptions, and share with their supporters.
• Directly support musicians. Buy their music. Collectively owned and managed.

This is not a promotion tool, however, it features a couple of "discovery" ways that people can find your music and, needless to say, it's a place where to monetize it.

The current pricing is the following: "Mirlo uses a transparent and consistent pricing model. We charge you 7% of your sale, and our payment processor (Stripe) takes a roughly 3% cut."

You can find all the features here.

They are launching a Kickstarter campaign soon, I haven't checked the details yet (if any), but keep an eye on that if you're interested on what they are coming up with! 😀

Dear fellow musicians, in case you didn't know there is a 100% fediverse-sourced online radio called Radio Free Fedi (@[email protected]).

You can easily submit your music which will be then in rotation on the radio!
You'll have the chance to be discovered and discover other fedi musicians!

In the submission, you can indicate your fedi account and your favourite support method which the listeners can easily click when your track is playing :)

From their website again:
*** Keep submitting music, voice reads, written pieces! Keep listening and discovering. Every day is a great day to discover and support independent artists! ***

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So, as the title says, how do you call this cable?

Thank you!

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to see if this method somehow works.

For those who don't know, SteamGift is a platform where you can either join giveaways or create them, gifting, well, Steam keys.

So, the main idea is that when creating a giveaway, you can write a description where you promote your music, and, depending on the game, you might get a decent amount of impressions.

The thing is, some good classics, sometimes get some 90%+ discount and you can buy them for not more than a couple of €.
For instance, I created a giveaway (well, this was 8 years ago, but I'm back to try this lmao) for The Witcher 2 which I paid probably 2€ and it got 4140 entries.

Recently, I gave away:

• Metro: Last Light Redux - paid 1,79€ - 1740 entries;
• Postal 2 - paid 0,68€ - 778 entries;
• Rubber Bandits - paid 0,90€ - 1347 entries;

The ratio cost/entry is not bad, but unfortunately, it looks like 99.9% of people don't even read the description.
So far, this method is not worth it, I think I'll try a few more and then I can consider it failed (if the trend stays the same).

Have you ever tried something like this?

Hello everyone :)

I guess the title says it all!
Anyways, the main purpose of Monetize Your Music is to create:

1. some kind of checklist that every musician should go through to make sure that all the deserved royalties are collected (I haven't collected some of them for years because I didn't know they existed! And I know a lot of people in the same situation);
2. some kind of collection of the best (and worst) tools/methods to promote the music itself.

If you have something to say about it, you need to know something about it or whatever is your status, you're very welcome to join!

Thanks for your attention, ciao!

[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/monetize_your_music