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Today is Wednesday, March 3, and we’re looking at Spotify vs. Apple.
Charles Penn is a musician and music producer based in New Jersey. Together with Prescott they discuss the state of music on the Internet, including listening, buying, sharing, and the potential to collaborating world-wide. The conversation moves to music promotion and tactics for artists starting out. Check out Charles's music on his website, The Sounds of The Underground. 00:00 00:00 Show Notes & Links First episode recorded face-to-face. Skype is awesome, but it's nice to see people in real life. Coverville In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond YouTube (yes, for music) Prescott [still uses] an iPod Classic Bob Marley on iTunes Google Music Juicy, by Notorious B.I.G. on iTunes Pandora, for streaming Music Genome Project Sade on iTunes Beats Music Service Services are too associated with Social Media (Rdio and Spotify, especially) Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil' Wayne — all artists which Prescott has never heard of Daley Robin Thicke 45 Record Singles Beatles-a-Rama Apple Records iTunes v12 coming soon (to your Mac) Google is Skynet DRM .Mac and iDrive (c. 2001) CD Quality is 16-bit 44.1Khz Stereo PCM Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube Gabrielle Aplin, has been playing her videos from her bedroom for years and is now a big star Points on the back-end Finding Llweyn Davis Tools Rhapsody Spotify Rdio Shazam Pandora iTunes internet radio ACB Radio for the Blind The Halls of Ivy (every episode available for download) Amazon Music Google Wallet YouTube, for sharing your music Weebly, for website templates ReverbNation SoundCloud, for home-grown artists Techniques For Pandora, only vote songs down. Otherwise, you'll hear the exact same song again and again. Search for stations on the Internet Radio stream. Discover something unexpected. Exchange features with other up-and-coming artists, then cross-promote for each other Habits Search randomly. Don't “plan” your music. Give away your music to build a fan base. The money will come. Get The Episode Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 17(MP3, 57:36, 55.7 MB) Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 17(OGG, 57:36, 54.7 MB) Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes Something to add? Leave a comment below to participate in the conversation.