My Discography. Free.

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Hi all - the post link above is not his discography - it's MP3's of his entire 1300 catalogue of songs. I tested it because it is 3.3GB and a zip file. The protection on my computer in the office (as I wasn't going to download a huge zip on the music system) went mad - but mainly because it's just huge I think. It decompressed to 1300 songs. On my fibre it took 6 minutes to download and about the same to decompress. As far as I could see, it is just mp3 files - nothing dodgy. I think he would like some comment, and I've explained that normally people post a few mp3 links and ask for comments - 1300 complete songs is well, a bit unusual.

That said none seem to house anything worrysome, so if you wish to download 3GB - it's there. Hopefully he might just cherry pick a few - but in the meantime, up to you guys. R
 
These are FREE samples from the kind people at CYMATICS, TONIFY, amongst others.
THESE ARE ROYALTY-FREE SAMPLES that I've turned into songs,
I don't make a penny from these, just trying to spread love and inspiration (a wannabe pioneer of sorts).
 
rob aylestone said:
Hi all - the post link above is not his discography - it's MP3's of his entire 1300 catalogue of songs. I tested it because it is 3.3GB and a zip file. The protection on my computer in the office (as I wasn't going to download a huge zip on the music system) went mad - but mainly because it's just huge I think. It decompressed to 1300 songs. On my fibre it took 6 minutes to download and about the same to decompress. As far as I could see, it is just mp3 files - nothing dodgy. I think he would like some comment, and I've explained that normally people post a few mp3 links and ask for comments - 1300 complete songs is well, a bit unusual.

That said none seem to house anything worrysome, so if you wish to download 3GB - it's there. Hopefully he might just cherry pick a few - but in the meantime, up to you guys. R
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Not true actually, it is my CARRER. Here, ask TrimpMX, with whom I've PM'd about my work. I did SoundCloud work, stories, etc. It's more like a cinemograph.
 
Ironic typo - Career or carer?
OK - the snag, and this is purely from my own point of view (and I'm sure others will disagree) is that they are NOT songs - at least the dozen or so I picked at random. I'm struggling for a genre - but soundscape might be more accurate. Your niche is difficult for us. We are all, I think recording enthusiasts and spend our time creating things that are wildy different, in every style imaginable, with the best quality. People here post about their concerns about a dinky little bit of distortion, or an edit they hear but we don't. Should they have used a different microphone. You don't actually create anything yourself? That's fine, but we don't know how you do it, and we don't know what manipulation you did.

From the PM's we have been swapping I know you want to get your music out there for people to use, and you don't even want any money. The snag, as I see it is that you have not identified who your listeners are, and what they will do with the music.

You sent me some links - so here is one as an example.

I don't understand the music at all. Why would somebody choose that as a background song in a tik tok video? I can see it as perhaps something in a movie or low budget film - but then it needs to be exactly the right length and fit the visuals, so would anyone actually find it to use?

You are an artist - one thing you MUST stop is releasing under crazy psuedonyms - who you are is important, and to get music listened to needs exposure as a person, not a random collection of different names. Have you actually published any? As in, are they on apple music, spotify, deezer, amazon, youtube etc etc? That's where exposure starts but when you release on those platforms you need a genre. Tik Tok and facebook won't take your music now - it doesn't fit their new profile. Music without vocals, classical music, covers, soundscapes, noise etc are now all deemed unacceptable.

Have you thought about what your listeners do with the music. It's hardly stuff you would just select to listen to conventionally - especially as lots of tracks appear to be random samples thrown together with backwards voices, or pitch shifted with explosions and madness. I'm old and set in my ways, so clearly I'm not your target audience, but who is?

People here will also be interested in which DAW you use, if you have decent monitors and technical stuff. While we can assist with some things, our forum is not really a show off place, like soundcloud and others. We can tell you what we think of it, but it would be better for others to tell you, rather than just me. If you get some positive responses you have a direction.
 
I'm old and set in my ways, so clearly I'm not your target audience, but who is?
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rob aylestone said:
Ironic typo - Career or carer?
OK - the snag, and this is purely from my own point of view (and I'm sure others will disagree) is that they are NOT songs - at least the dozen or so I picked at random. I'm struggling for a genre - but soundscape might be more accurate. Your niche is difficult for us. We are all, I think recording enthusiasts and spend our time creating things that are wildy different, in every style imaginable, with the best quality. People here post about their concerns about a dinky little bit of distortion, or an edit they hear but we don't. Should they have used a different microphone. You don't actually create anything yourself? That's fine, but we don't know how you do it, and we don't know what manipulation you did.

From the PM's we have been swapping I know you want to get your music out there for people to use, and you don't even want any money. The snag, as I see it is that you have not identified who your listeners are, and what they will do with the music.

You sent me some links - so here is one as an example.

I don't understand the music at all. Why would somebody choose that as a background song in a tik tok video? I can see it as perhaps something in a movie or low budget film - but then it needs to be exactly the right length and fit the visuals, so would anyone actually find it to use?

You are an artist - one thing you MUST stop is releasing under crazy psuedonyms - who you are is important, and to get music listened to needs exposure as a person, not a random collection of different names. Have you actually published any? As in, are they on apple music, spotify, deezer, amazon, youtube etc etc? That's where exposure starts but when you release on those platforms you need a genre. Tik Tok and facebook won't take your music now - it doesn't fit their new profile. Music without vocals, classical music, covers, soundscapes, noise etc are now all deemed unacceptable.

Have you thought about what your listeners do with the music. It's hardly stuff you would just select to listen to conventionally - especially as lots of tracks appear to be random samples thrown together with backwards voices, or pitch shifted with explosions and madness. I'm old and set in my ways, so clearly I'm not your target audience, but who is?

People here will also be interested in which DAW you use, if you have decent monitors and technical stuff. While we can assist with some things, our forum is not really a show off place, like soundcloud and others. We can tell you what we think of it, but it would be better for others to tell you, rather than just me. If you get some positive responses you have a direction.
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You are wise, I'm learning a lot from this.
So I must appeal to those platforms? Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon, YouTube.. etc.
The curators?
 
well yes. Spotify as an example analyse your music and if somebody likes one person's music, they then suggest yours. You cannot go to them direct. I suggest that you look at things like distrokid, sontradr, record union, tunecore and others. You upload your music and artwork and they place it on loads of the big music provider's systems. The snag, as I mentioned is they ask you for the genre - and that is a tricky one. The usual stuff like rock, pop country, new age, and loads of other category names are there, but yours is a bit difficult to categorise.

They are all similar. some charge an annual fee, some charge per release and some a combination. They then pay you when your music get used. You won't get rich. Millions of streams might eventually clock up a few hundred Dollars/Pounds, but you need huge quantities to make serious money.

Distrokid is probably the biggest, but from my experience also generate the most complaints. It only takes one of your pieces of music to contain an uncleared sample, or something odd on tik tok, and they shut you down and take your money and worse - remove every trace of your music from as many platforms as they have relationships with. Songtradr have a section where users can buy music from them - so that might work for you.

DAW Digital Audio Workstation - the software running on your computer you produce the tracks with. Reason, Cubase, Logic, garageband - that kind of thing.
 
Since you seem to be a sample based artist, you might want to look into Ableton or Bitwig. Those two DAWs may compliment and extend what you are going towards.
 
OK, I didn't download the file, but I went to your Soundcloud page and pulled up about a dozen tracks. To put it simply, I don't get it! Sorry to sound so negative.

I really cant call them "songs". To me they just sound like random sounds strung together. I can't think of an instance where I would load up one of them to relax and just listen... I also think it would be hard to use them as a background for something like a video.

There's little continuity to any of the ones I heard. For me, the question is "whats the point". I listen to a song and there's some words, a tune, a story, a flow to the music. It doesn't matter if it's Mahler, John WIlliams, Count Basie, Elvis, Beatles, Ariana Grande, Celine Dion. There's purpose. As a soundtrack, you have a situation on the video, and the music helps to reinforce the image. Whether it's Luke Skywalker flying over the Death Star, or Don Corleone laying on the pavement after being shot, the music adds to the scene.

How do you envision using these track?

primori1337 said:
I wish to reinvent the m3 player.. with me kinds of artists
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I'm not sure what you mean here.
 
So how are you recording these? We are intrigued if you got this far by luck but have knocked up 1300 tracks without knowing how you do it?
 
Many of them are very short. What or whom are you making them for? They're not easy listening, so who are the typical people listening to them?
 
Not sure about the musicians? Musicians would be interested in playing music, and your material isn't music, is it? Soundscapes sort of start, and stop, but don’t do much apart from prevent silence. I think you've not really considered the audience at all. My own music is boring and i describe it as send you to sleep music, and based on the analytics you get nowadays from spotify and apple, i know the age group and listening habits, plus the countries where its popular, and those countries where clearly it’s not liked at all. I can compare each released track and then work out why one is very popular and another isn’t. Ive got an audience, and now produce more of the stuff people like and less of what they don’t. You've got 1300 tracks but no clear audience. Facebook and tik tok’s new rules probably mean they wont be promoting it. They only take a very small percentage of my stuff now. Sound effects, noises and soundscapes are now on their banned list, along with covers and classical. Odd, but that’s how it works.
 
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