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The partnership with ArtistLink by Topspin, announced one year ago to enable the sale of retail merchandise has been discontinued; CDs and other merch can still be listed on Spotify through the BandPage platform:
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Spotify Design Update
Post by Mike Shupp Music.
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Spotify Enables Retail CD Links
Post by Mike Shupp Music.
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CD and Download Store within Facebook
My Facebook musician page “Mike Shupp Music” now has its own CD and Download Store, enabling both downloads and CD purchases from right within Facebook. Courtesy of incredible music publishing platform Bandcamp, which powers the “Music + Downloads” section of
Bandcamp, the platform that powers the music sales for this website, recently added a shopping cart feature to their already streamlined checkout-flow. The cart lives conspicuously (which is a good thing) in the upper right hand corner of the page and smoothly updates itself without adding a single click to your checkout. It doesn’t require an account, and shows (for physical CDs) shipping costs right up front and in your currency. I love how Bandcamp focuses on just a few features, and does them each extremely well. And the killer feature for me, still, is having the ability to offer full CD fidelity, uncompressed, 16-bit / 44.1 kHz audio downloads (in addition to high quality MP3 320 and others) along with a PDF Liner Notes booklet. Give it a try…
Mike Shupp Music & Downloads – download.mikeshupp.com
Bandcamp – U.S. Patent Application 12,973,070: Inter-net Shopping “Cart”
(Extra credit: test-drive the shopping cart, enter your comments and email in this blog post below, and I’ll send you a free download code)
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Getting Better All The Time
An interesting practice run for mixdown of the live recording while helping a friend convert some LPs to CD… unless I’m mistaken, the only way to get a CD burner to identify individual song tracks (so your player can navigate to each track) in a continuous play recording (like the live recording, or in this case, an LP transfer) is to generate individual masters of each song from the complete audio file… thus an exercise in edit points (and fades, at session front, and end) and file management. The convergence of recording and computer technology is, in many ways, ideal. A serendipitous merging of skill-sets… I love that.
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“The Key” Available Now!
The new Mike Shupp full-length CD “The Key” is finally here! Currently only available from this Website, with secure On-Line ordering: Buy CD here! Watch this space for info on local and national retail availability, coming soon!