| CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast |
 Dec. 14,
2008
Ep.41 : What's Your Story?
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| First batch of CD Baby Weed files are ready! |
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CD Baby artists have yet another way to distribute their music digitally. Weed is a service that lets you take control of how your music is shared around the world.
If you already opted-in to the Weed service through the CD Baby Digital Distribution Program, great! Your files may be ready for pickup. We are e-mailing details to the first wave of artists this week.
Interested in getting your songs into Weed format? Visit this page: http://www.weedshare.com/web/cdbwelcome.html for all the details.
Shelley McIntyre
content manager
Shared Media Licensing, Inc.
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While this is good news, I've had some difficulty downloading the files (2 of 3 CD's are missing even though the links to the weed files are there).
I sent Weed a couple messages asking for help but haven't heard anything in a couple days.
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We've received a couple of mails about this, and we're looking into the server reset issue today. Please send any other issues to cdbartists@weedshare.com. Thanks!
Shelley
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A followup note:
The good folks at Weed fixed the problem, everything is fine!
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I got my files and I got them downloaded to a cd, and now what? I'm a little confused about what to do next. Do I need a provider or is CD Baby my provider? HELP!
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CD Baby is your Weed provider. Once you download your Weed-formatted files, you are free to post them to your website or to other sites. Check out this page: for more ideas on how to promote your Weed files.
Shelley
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| by Ian
on Wednesday September 01 2004 @ 10:31PM PDT [ reply | parent ] |
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Hi, I'm a little confused about what happens next too. I wonder if you can clarify?
You say CDBaby is the "Provider". What does that mean exactly? Is there somewhere on the CDBaby site that people can download and share the tracks? Will they appear on the artists album page? Or is it simply that CDBaby provides the Weed encoding service, but it is still up to the Artist to host the weed tracks somewhere else?? Or does CDBaby send the Weed files to other Weed hosting sites??
This is the part I don't get. I've got a bunch of weed files(22)sitiing here and I have no idea what to do with them.
Also, the encoded file names ALL begin with the word "weed". Do we need to retain this new name?
Thanks.
Ian
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After trying for over 4 hours to download my 51 MB weed files through a dial-up connection, I finally gave up and cancelled the operation.
Is there a way we can just order our own CD from you with the unzipped weed files on them?
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What is to stop people from doing excessive
streaming on some of the subscription digital sites with unlimited streaming? That's at 2 cents per song per artist and could run up a huge bill for the digital sites.
I like Weed's limit to three streams policy.
I also notice that Real Music (Rhapsody partner) is selling songs at 49 cents and albums at $4.95
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I think the streaming services (Rhapsody, etc) planned on people doing unlimited streaming! But they're paying a monthly fee for the right to do it, so that $10-$20/month that everyone is paying will cover the costs for all, hopefully.
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I just wanted to introduce myself here, and welcome many of
you who have already started posting to ShareNewYork.com.
I created the site to be a Weed sharing hub. Since one never
existed before, I tried to put together the basics, and see how
people actually used it. More than just a place for musicians to
put their files, I wanted everyone to be able to buy Weed files,
then upload their favorites and actively push the music on their
own through forums, blogs, and comments on the song files. So
far, it has been mostly musicians using the site for now, and this
is natural since musicians are the ones hearing about Weed. I
don't allow other file formats, because they carry potential
liabilities. Weed files are always legal to share, so we can put
together a centralized system without fear of RIAA hassles.
I also wanted to have a regional focus. I don't want anyone to
feel excluded, I will host files from anywhere...but I am a
musician playing in New York, and from the beginning I thought
getting a core group of
musicians in one area would help introduce Weed to an area.
Introduce it to the clubs as a
promotion tool, to the agents as a chance to scout some new
musicians into Weed files, and to the audience who can listen
and, yes, maybe actually buy a few songs because they saw the
band.
Towards more local involvement, I am running a weekly open
mic at the Baggot Inn, 82 West 3rd St in Greenwich Village, just a
block south of Washington Square park. 2-6pm on Sunday
afternoons. I bring my computer, and if we get a good
recording, we can get it online in a week or so. And the first CD
Baby artist already came down this past week.
There are a few simple changes coming to ShareNewYork in the
next month or so which should make it easier to use for
customizing how you can direct fans to the site, and make it
easier to find all the music of an artist, or a genre without having
to deal with the big list. I've gotten some good feedback in
person and in email, but I'm anxious to get more community
building on the site. I'm convinced that Weed creates some great
incentive to work together to create a new type of market for
music of all kinds.
I encourage everyone new to Weed to explore
ShareNewYork.com, listen to some tracks on a hunch. There is a
lot of information about Weed and how Weed works in various
blogs and forums. Explore! Read how
people are presenting their own music, and think about what's
right for your work. Explore the Web Ring while you're there (it's
on the bottom of every page) and through Weedshare.com find a
few more interesting Weed sites.
Welcome to the Weed World.
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I was able to playback a Weed file much more often than 3 times, using WinAmp. Strange. It seems that copyright protection doesn't work as promised.
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| NOTE: If you need a reply you should email CD Baby directly instead of posting here. We don't often read old message board postings, and have no way of replying to them!
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