Getting Your Music for Free

To me, the two most important events occurring in 2016 were: 1) the new Copyright Royalty rules doing away with the "Small Webcaster Settlement Act"; 2) my decision to fully retire and start doing what felt good.

The former had a profound negative effect on the number of online radio stations, due to onerous royalty fees. The revenue is just not there. The latter freed me up to fully implement a system where artists seeking exposure offer their music free to radio stations. This system has been in place since 2003, but it was never given a major portion of my time; now it does so stations can use this music free, with no payments of any kind. It gives independent radio stations a fighting chance against broadcasting peers who pay no performance royalty. Artists have the opportunity to get in front of more music lovers to gain exposure.
In addition to hearing stations airing these songs, consumers may find other new music on their own.

One month ago the last article appeared at Audio Graphics. It was titled "When There's Nothing Left to Say" and ended with "Perhaps I may think of something worthwhile to mutter again." That time has come.

RRadio Music is a web site featuring indie artists in seven music genres. "Intro to Indie Artists" programs are also available.

The site exists for radio programmers to retrieve free music from artists who know current methods for gaining airplay are skewed to major labels. Smaller stations also know the system is broken.

It needs fixing.

After writing that last article RRadio Music became my priority. Everything you see comes through my keyboard. There are no helpers or coders so, when the back-end needs adjustment, if it needs to be fixed, I call me.

Due to changes in the Chrome browser, the mp3 files listed no longer played in that format. A new player needed to be developed, which I did. That new player is now being migrated through RRadio Music's thousands of song files.

Though the process is moving slow, stations - and fans just wanting to find good new music - may access these new songs as they're loaded. If you desire to hear short bursts of music, a list with hours of songs is here.

I already migrated far more music than any one person can listen to, and there's ten-times more to complete.

For new songs that deserve to be heard you may go to RRadioMusic.com or "Intro to Indie Artists." Both offer songs to stations to use for free. Fans may just browse the selection to hear quality new music.

Either way stay tuned, because I can truthfully say you really ain't heard nothing yet.





Wednesday, August 24, 2016      eMail to a Friend



Today's artist introduction is to Blues from Andy & the Rockers

Killing Grace
  Give "Down Home Kentucky" a listen.

  Stations: Add it to your playlist, free.