Comments on: Apricado: Selling Your Music Has Never Been This Easy

By: Jimmy Valentine

Jimmy Valentine — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:03:18 +0000

well being an amiestreet artist i have to say they really screwed us…for instance if you try to find who the #5 artist on the site according to sales and recs…you can not on the new system…it is me by the way…they had a really cool system to get heard and get a real barometer for your popularity that was honest and helped you make a lil money…it truly was for the lil guy artists with cult followings such as myself…the redesign totally pushed anyone who was making any real progress back into obscurity…and IT SUCKS!…i worked very hard at developing a promo engine that amiestreet was integral too and i along with a lot of other small timers made them a lot of money and they saved it up and turned on us…amiestreet is now just a corporate monster of overproduced marketed crap…i will soon be removing all of my music from their site…please do NOT BUY ANY MUSIC FROM AMIESTREET at least not mine…instead go to http://www.jimmyvalentine.biz and all my cd,s are available special requests of custom burnt cd’s will be taken at http://www.mysp...autifullmonster
AMIESTREET SUCKS !!
THANKS I LOVE YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE!

JIMMY VALENTINE

By: Gerd Leonhard

Gerd Leonhard — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:40:37 +0000

Further to this discussion, you may like my video on the Future of Copyright: http://gleonhar.../file/1028802/#
About the Future of Copyright: 1) An actual distinction between ‘Copy’ vs ‘Performance’ of digital content no longer exists 2) Even if it did: the ‘Selling of Copies’ is no longer a growing business, or a sustainable model 3) The exclusive right to ‘make copies’ is becoming impossible to enforce 3) Criminalization of Sharing and Policing of Web-Access is not the kind of ‘Justice’ our society can afford 4)New Permissions & ‘Usage-Rights’ for Digital Music can and will solve this problem..

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By: gavroche

gavroche — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:47:07 +0000

So this seems to be yet another place where bands can sell their music online. Big woop. There are soo many of these site, and they all compete with Itunes. Even an unsigned artist can get into itunes, amazon, etc by using CD baby or Tune Cure.

So the trick is that Apricado gives artists more money. This is great! But, since they’re not given any value adds to the music, why would an artist choose to sell through a retailer no fans know/trust. Seems like another snocap to me!

By: Chris Harper

Chris Harper — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:03:52 +0000

Check out betarecords.com!

85% back to the artists. Free, unlimited use. Social features to connect with fans. Discovery methods in place. A store widget for MySpace, Facebook, your site, etc. Set your own prices. Be seen by the music (A&R), TV, film, advertising, and gaming industries for licensing. And we have our own recording studio and are signing acts within all genres in non-exclusive way.

By: Mardix

Mardix — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:30:52 +0000

Apricado? You can even buy beats (music instrumental) online.

http://www.givemebeats.com

By: angus young

angus young — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:58:08 +0000

As an indie artist I think Fuzz.com already does this better than anyone… and their Blip site rules. Also, as old school as it is, the PodSafe Music Network still rules for getting promotion.

By: Jeff K. Ward

Jeff K. Ward — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:57:34 +0000

Also, I wanted to let you know that you can follow the Apricado progress on twitter: http://www.twit...er.com/apricado

By: Jeff K. Ward

Jeff K. Ward — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:46 +0000

@Indie Music Blog – At this point we’re focused on the financial transaction side of things for the artist because it is the most straightforward thing to solve quickly. The goal is to give artists as many tools as possible to promote themselves. Music discovery will come and I’m open to all possibilities.

@freya, @techdude, et al. – Solving this one simple problem certainly has brought up a number of other issues. They are challenges that we’ll have to overcome, no doubt. Please share your ideas where you can see us improve on these areas? All advice is welcomed

@LT – If artists have to pay a flat-rate (monthly/annually) to be able to sell their music, the starving artists will shy away from this. With Apricado, we’re trying to remove barriers (financial, technical) so that artists can get sell their music online quickly and easily.

Thanks everybody for the comments, it’s really great to hear everybody’s different critiques, criticisms and concerns.

By: Veep

Veep — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:47 +0000

Their name and icon disgust me.

By: Indie Music Blog

Indie Music Blog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:50:51 +0000

I agree w/ Ry’s response to Andrew. I see this more as a way for artists to setup storefronts and promote their own music for direct to consumer sales. They may pick up a few fans along the way as the community grows.

The challenge Amie St. had (and still has to some degree) is that its too easy for any guy with a ukulele to upload music. It’s like music spam and there needs to be some sort of filter.

Amie St. has gotten some bigger names like Pavement, Pixies, Blitzen Trapper, etc, but there’s still lots of sub-par to average clutter.

W/ Apricado, I’d expect a community rating or built in filter to help cut through the clutter.

By: Egor Kunovsky

Egor Kunovsky — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:41:18 +0000

> sites, like AmieStreet, have done especially well, but they tend to be pretty involved – you can’t just upload your songs and start getting paid.

Really? I guess that’s exactly how it works for me at Amie Street: I came, uploaded music by my band, Dreamlin, started selling music and am getting payed on monthly basis. Everything is pretty simple.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:50:20 +0000

What happened to the comments? What is with this reply thing, and why no numbers? I’m not trying to have old-man syndrome, but at least bring the numbers back! =)

As for why TC covered this, I think covering the (potential) failures is important too. Not to mention, with TechCrunch’s following, their reporting affects the reported (Heisenberg principle of physics)–Covering a potential failure may be the kickstart it needs, and sometimes good ideas need that.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:46:28 +0000

Yes, yes… lots of considerations.

But what I really want to know is… Jason, do you also secretly love Mika?

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:06:52 +0000

How do they handle less then $1 purchases? It seems that most of the money should go to payment gateway…

By: freya in .de

freya in .de — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:56:27 +0000

a suit lost in calif. can be and usually are enforceable in canada. i hope these apricot guys have a good bay area attny. the weak tos says no (a foregn co. with not conflict of laws article???). 1 honorable broadside from apple legal will take them offline almost immediately.

flying by the seats of thepants is fun. the guy are spo obviously amateurs. let me know if you enjoy steve’s tango

By: techdude

techdude — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:09:49 +0000

There seems to be a lot of loose ends to this site…I wonder how successful it will be. http://blabtech.blogspot.com

By: SLaguana

SLaguana — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:35:32 +0000

“If Apricado let artists set the price of their tracks, or if allowed a pay-what-you-want option, that might be interesting. But it looks like all tracks will sell for $0.99.”

http://www.mixpal.com

Set the price of your tracks to whatever price you want. Sell any format you want. Oh, and get paid immediately upon every sale.

Pricing will eventually be based on file size at roughly .02 a MB, so a 70MB full length album selling for $10 would pay $1.40 in comissions. But right now, it’s free for musicians.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:53:25 +0000

‘Apricado CEO Jeff Ward acknowledges that this could be an issue’

Could be? Without screening where the music is coming from this site is going to get sued to death.

By: LT

LT — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:56:49 +0000

Apricado ONLY taking 20% of sales rather than the standard 30% doesn’t get me very excited as an artist — it’s still 20% too much. To understand why, read this.

If Apricado let artists set the price of their tracks, or if allowed a pay-what-you-want option, that might be interesting. But it looks like all tracks will sell for $0.99.

I hope for their sake that Apricado has a more elaborate plan in the pipeline, because building a new business around selling digital downloads at $0.99/track doesn’t make much sense at this point…

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:52:01 +0000

C’mon TC…Why would you write about this nothing Apricot site? this is a total failure. Any business with 20% gross margins will never last.