What comes to music marketing, creating hype has always been essential.
DJs should not be seen as a bunch of criminals disrespecting copyright, but as an enormous and potential (but neglected) force of marketing.
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[To find all these short notes, search this blog for “Short notes about music business”]
Music marketing is about exposure and discovery. DJs are benefiting both.
Music marketing will be equal to distributing. Not soon, but it will be.
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[To find all these short notes, search this blog for “Short notes about music business”]
If you are a musician and you think a radio show, podcast, DJ-mix or even p2p sharing is not benefiting your business in a long run, you are so not living in the 21st century.
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[I wrote these notes originally by hand over a year ago, but they seem to have needed lots of time to take this form. Originally it was The Future Of Music book that inspired me to make these notes – the book is highly recommended. To find all these short notes, search this blog for “Short notes about music business”]
The full entry of Vinyl Digitalizing can be found here. Please add the possible comments there.
– The first 10 tracks are now in digital form. Whee. The first digitalized track was BT – Flaming June (BT & PvD mix).
– Grado DJ200 sound quality is amazing. I’m VERY satisfied with it. It’s worth every cent.
– Before starting to record, I tried a couple of programs:
* Sample Manager for normalizing. Very good, but very expensive. No use, sorry.
* Final Vinyl. Only for use with iGriffin products. No thanks.
* Analogue Ripper had nice features – iTunes support, track splitting etc. However, the user interface was horrible. The price, 30 dollars, was ok, but the usability was that poor that I decided not to pay.
– Finally I ended up using Audacity. The normalizing feature was very poor so no normalizing until I find a better software. Recommendations?
– As I mentioned in the comments of the previous entry, I decided to make two copies of the tracks: One .wav copy for playing and archiving purposes and .mp3 copy for portable music players and iTunes music library.
– I need a new hard drive.
