Content creation and delivery on the net..
 
Do the Right Thing—Learn how recent laws affect the music you deliver online, by Eric Leach. You can distribute your music in a limited sense by simply posting songs on your Web site. But online music distribution involves licenses—and not just any licenses. Wild, new, and crazy, these licenses are steeped in laws complicated enough to make you want to change professions. Just ask the folks at Napster. more
Heard It On the Web: Internet Music Distribution—Put Your Music Online for the World to Hear, by Robert Powell with Alex Artaud. Today digital download and streaming technologies Napsteroffer musicians ways to distribute and promote their music to an international audience at minimal cost. Besides encouraging greater diversity, these technologies can contribute to a richer and more direct relationship between the artist and the fan. more
—You Really Can Make Money from Your Music on the Web, by Mary Cosola. Most musicians resign themselves to the notion that an online presence is just one component—albeit an important one—of a multifaceted approach to marketing music. But for those musicians interested in selling their songs for use in commercials, soundtracks, computer games, and the like, there is a new online music option that works. more
What's in a WEB PAGE—If You’ve Ever Wondered How Web Pages Work, Here’s Your Answer, by Alan Gary Campbell. As an electronic musician, you may consider the Web to be part of your tool kit. Perhaps you have surfed the Internet countless times, but what exactly is a Web page, anyway? Where did the technology come from, how does it work, and where is it going? more

by Roger Maycock. dotdotdot.com ... Web Site of the Month ... Download of the Month ... Webcast ... Web App ... Band on the Web. more
...or, What Is Happening to My Audio? by Gary Hall. You’re an up-to-date audio pro, savvy to audio on the Internet. You’ve uploaded and downloaded, optimized your material for compression and use only the very best encoders. But in the back of your mind, there may be one little question that just won’t go away: “What the heck is this MP3 stuff actually doing to my audio?” more
Online Audio
by Philip DeLancie. Online audio is a huge subject. There are the moral/ethical/legal issues. There are the business issues, with buzzwords like “e-commerce” and “bricks & mortar.” Then there are the technical issues, such as bandwidth, telephony infrastructure, perceptual coding and acronymic codecs. But from an audio engineering perspective, the only issue that there isn’t enough talk about is audio fidelity. more
Webcasting On the Rocks—Streaming from the Stage to the Internet, by Candace Horgan. Engineer Chris WebcastingMickle has been at the forefront of Webcasting concerts in the Colorado area for five years now since putting the first ISDN lines into Red Rocks in 1995 for a Blues Traveler show. And, because Webcasting is a fairly new field, Mickle has experienced his share of headaches getting the shows on the air. more
Unsigned & Online—Five Artists Share Their e-commerce Experiences, by Peter Drescher. Which of the myriad services offered on the Internet make sense from financial and promotional standpoints for up-and-coming artists such as yourself? The occasional success story is more than just an urban legend. more
Web Page, by Roger Maycock. dotdotdot.com ... Web Site of the Month ... Download of the Month ... Webcast ... Web App ... Band on the Web. more
The Beatnik Player—A Powerful Tool for Interactive Sound On Your Web Page, by Peter Hamlin. Adding high-quality, interactive audio to a Web page can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, Beatnik has developed a solution to all these problems, integrating high-quality, interactive MIDI and digital audio into your Web site. more
Web Page, by Roger Maycock. dotdotdot.com ... Web Site of the Month ... Download of the Month ... Webcast ... Web App ... Band on the Web. more
Getting Signed Online—Fisher Proves You Can Nab A Record Deal On The Internet, by Erik Hawkins. Earlier this year, a band named Fisher finally hooked that groundbreaking record deal, proving that the idea of getting signed as a result of a strong Web presence isn’t so far-fetched. more
Windows Media AudioWindows Media Audio—Microsoft Ups the Ante in Streaming Audio, by Brian Smithers. Windows Media Technologies is a set of components that handles the preparation, delivery, and playback of audio and video. For anyone trying to pump music through the still-inadequate cyber pipeline, WMA is definitely a step in the right direction. more
The E-Business Legal Checklist—A primer on legally setting up your Internet-based business, by Michael A. Aczon. Before you leave the real world behind and launch your virtual company, take a step back and assess the various legal issues that await you. You need to devote some time and effort to making sure you cover all of your legal bases. more
Caught Napstering—Why We're Missing the Real Problem with Digital Downloading, by Paul D. Lehrman. Like it or not, MP3, Napster, Gnutella and whatever new file-swapping technology gets invented are changing the way that music is distributed in the industrialized world. more
Slicing and Dicing MP3 Bit Rates, by Jim Esch. MP3 phenomenon has emerged as the de facto format for audio delivery over the web. MPEG encompasses a family of standards for encoding audio and video into digitally compressed files, one of which is MP3. more
Untangling the Web How to Avoid Embarrassing Yourself in Cyberspace, by Paul D. Lehrman --Web design is as much of an art as mixing music. If you’ve done a lot of Web programming, none of this stuff is going to be new to you, but perhaps it’s worth thinking about one more time anyway. more
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