KicKRaTT account at Audius. I started out with the BASIC plan, at this point all I am doing is monitoring the traction a song receives after being uploaded to a music site. All the KicKRaTT SOL album songs have been uploaded for release on Audius. The BASIC plan at Audius starts by completing a profile, which needs me to upload tracks & make a playlist. Audius has a great way of increasing following base. Quickly you will obtain the followers that you are following to help get you on the stage. Audius circulates on-line through streaming services with releases through online stores. Loading up the same cover art for songs used throughout the KicKRaTT accounts.
AUDIUS UPDATE: If you ever create an account here don't ever lose a security key they send you. Make a back up of the key in some way off your PC. A PC SSD crash I experienced distroyed my AUDIUS KEY and I think your login must be aligned with a machine ID. Anyhoo... I can no longer log in, can't change my password and without this key of theirs can't get their online service to help me in any way. So my AUDIUS account has become a signpost for KicKRaTT."
KicKraTT account at Bandcamp. All the KicKRaTT tracks uploaded to SoundClick are now available through Bandcamp. Bandcamp does have a profile page for KicKRaTT. Bandcamp also offers a variety of customizable player embedding options. Bandcamp players all have the BUY option which expands the available store for acquiring the KicKRaTT sound. KicKRaTT music can now be purchased through either the links to SoundClick or the Bandcamp embedded players links found on this journal or the KickRaTT Google Blog. Click on the Track's name in the Bancamp embedded players and this will take you to the Bandcamp page for the track & on this page if you click on the artist name "KicKRaTT" it will open the Bandcamp KicKRaTT artist page where you can purchase all of the KicKRaTT tracks uploaded to Bandcamp.
KicKRaTT account at Tunecore. Uploaded a number of the KicKRaTT tracks Tunecore for release. No KicKRaTT profile page at TuneCore that can gives me a URL, all links to the Tunecore KicKRaTT profile default to Tunecore general login. Also a bummer is no Tunecore animated gif! I will have to create one in time to hang with my other links. On Tunecore I started out with the BASIC plan, at this point all I am doing is monitoring the traction a song receives after being uploaded to a music site. Before I invest in music promotion lets see what the BASIC service offers. Right?
At first glance on Tunecore, I was under the impression or apparently I read it wrong that the TuneCore BASIC plan puts your music in circulation on Spotify. The wording at Tunecore, when you upload a track for release is such that it asks if you want to create an account at Spotify & schedule a release date??? & that it will create a Spotify account (even if you don't have one). And that after a 7-10 day period there will be a Spotify Artist page for you to claim. So...after releasing my tracks Helios Bird I sat back and waited for the Spotify connection to happen. Waited to claim my Spotify artist page, but this never happened. No indication appeared on my Tunecore profile pertaining to Spotify or my Spotify artist page. So I contacted Tunecore support about the Tunecore Spotify release & artist page. The reply I got back after about two days was that I was on the BASIC plan & needed to upgrade my account to gain access to Spotify. It seems my Tunecore BASIC plan releases my music to; YouTube Music, YouTube Shorts, TikTok/Resso, Facebook/Instagram/Reels & gives me a YouTube content ID. Tunecore does create a release of your music on all of the social media portals; Youtube, Facebook, Instagram. Instagram, Reels, and Facebook all work hand-in-hand when you're looking to promote your release. So even if your not ready to financially invest in promotion or getting your music into digital stores. Tunecore does add a layer to your music's expansion across the net by injecting your music onto these platforms as a commercial representative to your music. But you can certainly do all of this yourself.
To remove your music from Tunecore, login to your Tunecore account & follow these instructions.
TUNECORE UPDATE : Probably back in April, I pulled all of my music off Tunecore. Under just the basic tunecore plan the service kept flagging my YouTube uploaded music with copyright strikes, which became irritating. It is pretty ridiculous of Tunecore to not think that your going to have YouTube account for your music. While I not making any money on YouTube or any other online service, I need YouTube more than I need Tunecore, so ... bye bye Tunecore. Also, Tunecore makes it next to impossible for you to delete your account. Defined by Tunecore as some sort of transactional close out, which is even more stupid since I never paid a dime nor did I pay for a service subscription. I'm waiting for this Ai contest to be finished so then I can hit them up on LinkedIN to see what their prob is, because they give no way to contact them other than through some sort of online bot, which in order to get a response I need to upgrade/pay for a service. I will revisit this issue at some point in the future. Should make for an interesting blog entree.
Advice for anyone releasing their music online through any of these websites. When creating cover art for your track, the only words you want to have on your cover are the song's title and the artist name. & I would emphasize one over the other with a font style / size difference between the two. If the cover art for your track contains more than these two identifiers you will probably find your release being put on hold.
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