Submission + - What is the Best Site for Home Grown Music? 1
anticlone writes: "I compose and record original music not paying attention to any style convention. Myself and friends are looking for the best site to host our music. Not for money. Not for adoration. Just to publish what we hope is art for others to listen to and meet fellow composers to collaborate with.
I have been the route of Trax in Space, Soundclick, MP3.com, lastFM, ModPlug, CTGmusic and others that do not exist anymore like IUMA and BanDB. The Usenet ALT hierarchy is starting to get banned... so the newsgroup I made in 1998 alt.binaries.sounds.music.amateur will soon have even less coverage....
They all have significant drawbacks. Host your own and you'll never meet other people with the size of the web now.... I've done that too.
Ideally I we would like to find a host for decent quality MP3 (stream and DL), video (Stream and DL), and graphics that is for non-commercial postings.
So far jamendo looks best but has no video and being required to upload raw wavs is rather ridiculous.....and you can -never- delete your music once published there.
Has some web entrepreneur done this right and we just don't know about it?
As to me... I have degrees in Music (for the night) and Chemistry (for the money), run (unfortunately) Windoze and (happily) Ubuntu, have programmed professionally as a Chemist from assembler to Quick Basic and a few stops in between...."