Need help selling Mp3's online

[TechBoyJK]

I need to put up some MP3's that i want people to pay $1 to download... any bands or musicians here have experience with this? im trying to figure out the best way to do it.

 

[shortylickens]

I hope you mean your own personal MP3's and not ones you've ripped from commercial music CD's.

Be aware if you do that you'll have to pay taxes on the revenue, like a bussiness.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I hope you mean your own personal MP3's and not ones you've ripped from commercial music CD's.

Be aware if you do that you'll have to pay taxes on the revenue, like a bussiness.

yea, its for home grown music, and the business is going to be incorporated.

 

[shortylickens]

In that case:

I have seen a lot of home-based video game companies sell their products in a smart way.
When you pay them for a game, they let you have access to that file, (and that file only) for about 24 hours. Its usually a web-based download.
The problem is, they usually only have a couple of games for sale. I dont know how well that would work for hundreds of MP3's.

 

[TechBoyJK]

thats pretty much what we want to do. someone pays via paypal or whatever, they get a link, that link has a link to a file, they download it.... link expires in 24 hours...

im looking at tradebit.com

 

[Mark R]

Don't forget that mp3 is not free.

You must use a paid for encoder (software like LAME is technically warez, because the mp3 licence fee hasn't been paid).

You must also pay royalties on each mp3 file you sell.

See mp3licensing.com for more details.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Don't forget that mp3 is not free.

You must use a paid for encoder (software like LAME is technically warez, because the mp3 licence fee hasn't been paid).

You must also pay royalties on each mp3 file you sell.

See mp3licensing.com for more details.

You obviously didn't read this entire post.

Moron.

 

[ruffilb]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: Mark R
Don't forget that mp3 is not free.

You must use a paid for encoder (software like LAME is technically warez, because the mp3 licence fee hasn't been paid).

You must also pay royalties on each mp3 file you sell.

See mp3licensing.com for more details.

You obviously didn't read this entire post.

Moron.

Whoah now...

 

[cruiser1338]

Did you read the page you linked either?

At the bottom it excludes "entities with associated annual gross revenue of less than $100,000.00."

Somehow I don't think that that will happen here, no offense meant OP.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: Mark R
Don't forget that mp3 is not free.

You must use a paid for encoder (software like LAME is technically warez, because the mp3 licence fee hasn't been paid).

You must also pay royalties on each mp3 file you sell.

See mp3licensing.com for more details.

You obviously didn't read this entire post.

Moron.

I read the whopping 5 posts and I don't get how you are calling him a moron.

To put files in the MP3 format itself requires licensing. It's not the music that's he's, it's the AUDIO COMPRESSION that needs a license. like he said, MP3 is NOT free. You cannot use the MP3 compression technology for commercial gain without buying a license to use it. It doesn't matter what you are encoding... your band's music... you singing in the shower... your grandmother telling a story... it all needs to have lisencing to use the compression.

 

[KoolDrew]

To put files in the MP3 format itself requires licensing. It's not the music that's he's, it's the AUDIO COMPRESSION that needs a license. like he said, MP3 is NOT free. You cannot use the MP3 compression technology for commercial gain without buying a license to use it. It doesn't matter what you are encoding... your band's music... you singing in the shower... your grandmother telling a story... it all needs to have lisencing to use the compression.

QFT.

 

[cruiser1338]

What is QFT?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
What is QFT?

Queens Film Theatre

 

[cruiser1338]

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
Did you read the page you linked either?

At the bottom it excludes "entities with associated annual gross revenue of less than $100,000.00."

Somehow I don't think that that will happen here, no offense meant OP.

Do I have to quote myself to tell you guys he doesn't need the license?

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: cruiser1338

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
Did you read the page you linked either?

At the bottom it excludes "entities with associated annual gross revenue of less than $100,000.00."

Somehow I don't think that that will happen here, no offense meant OP.

Do I have to quote myself to tell you guys he doesn't need the license?

Doesn't seem like anyone is paying attention

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
What is QFT?

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[revnja]

Originally posted by: Bassyhead

Originally posted by: cruiser1338

Originally posted by: cruiser1338
Did you read the page you linked either?

At the bottom it excludes "entities with associated annual gross revenue of less than $100,000.00."

Somehow I don't think that that will happen here, no offense meant OP.

Do I have to quote myself to tell you guys he doesn't need the license?

Doesn't seem like anyone is paying attention

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