Publishing tunes from GarageBand to iTMS
So how long do you think it will be before we see this capability. I thought of this immediately when GarageBand was being demo'd by Steve and John. Individual artists could create their own tracks and post them on the iTMS for a fee of course. Interesting. Thoughts? Any serious musicians out there care to comment on this "doing away with the record label" theory?
EDIT: Mods you can move this to Software if you'd like, but since it deals with "future" stuff, I thought I'd post here.
EDIT: Mods you can move this to Software if you'd like, but since it deals with "future" stuff, I thought I'd post here.
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iTMS can only exist and excell with excellent music and original music.
If Apple is smart they may created a .mac tie in with GB that allows people to swap music files. That would rock.
First, though, the whole point of iTMS is that it's not just whatever Apple could find. They want editors.
If you really want to get your GarageBand-authored stuff on iTMS, you can go through CD Baby. A more direct link is unlikely. Some sort of .Mac integration, on the other hand, might happen.
Originally posted by hmurchison
Hopefully never. Who wants to listen to music based on canned loops?
Have you heard of any pop music in the last 10 years that doesn't include some kind of loops? And I was suggesting this more for the "live recording" capabilities rather than just a workup of included loops. Of course, you will have to pay to have the works published on iTMS, so depending on cost, you would weed out a lot of the garbage produced.
This is a revenue maker for Apple. They don't make squat on the iTMS downloads (nearly all of that goes to the record labels).
Originally posted by Animaniac
IIRC, Jobs demoed this feature during the Keynote, so it should already be there.
Not publishing to the iTMS, where everyone in the world can purchase and download it.
Maybe a special section for "Rising Stars"?
Originally posted by Animaniac
I think publishing to .Mac is enough... no one wants to pay for music generated by GarageBand.
More to the point, nobody wants to pay for random crap, no matter how it was generated.
If you record an absolutely brilliant album with GarageBand, you can publish it through the usual means (a label or label-like entity like CD Baby or even GarageBand.com) and if it really is that good, people will pay for it. The means of creation are irrelevant: Crap recorded on live, professional instruments captured by top-end mikes and run through a top-end board with a first-call engineer at the console is still crap.
Music needs editors. That's where the labels come in.
Originally posted by hmurchison
iTMS can only exist and excell with excellent music and original music.
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Heh, no, it can only exist and excel with a wide variety of music, the good and the bad, one man's bach is another man's Avril lavigne and all that.
Originally posted by bunge
File sharing built in. Anything you make in Garageband could be put out on a peer to peer network.
That gets your GB stuff out to other GB users, but what about everybody else? That brings up another cool idea though. To put out your GB stuff on a p2p network or iTunes, it would have to be flattened into a common format like MP3, AAC, whatever. A sharing feature in GB could allow for the built-in public sharing of templates users make. The actual audio data wouldn't be shared, just the reference file. It would use checksums to confirm that the computer across the network also has the same loops and such.
No offense to anyone that likes it but that "Milkshake Song" sounds like buttcheese and kids are gobbling it up on the music store.
Originally posted by Animaniac
I think publishing to .Mac is enough... no one wants to pay for music generated by GarageBand.
Talk about closed box thinkingness. And... how supportive of you! Tools don't create things, talented people do. GarageBand is a tool that COULD be used to create awesome music. iTMS can very well have a section for this. I have no doubt it will soon have a section to support upcoming musicians.
Yeah, I do not really want to see a ton of crap clogging up the iTMS.
But a select few would be fine.
Originally posted by msantti
Maybe there could be some sort of competition and the winners could get their tunes posted on the iTMS.
Yeah, I do not really want to see a ton of crap clogging up the iTMS.
But a select few would be fine.
it won't be too long before we see such a competition. Apple had similar competitions before for iPhoto and iMovie.
Originally posted by iPeon
iTMS can very well have a section for this.
And who should control the music to make sure that copyrighted material isn't published?
Originally posted by JLL
And who should control the music to make sure that copyrighted material isn't published?
Good question. Obviously it would have to be audited.
Originally posted by Eugene
Good question. Obviously it would have to be audited.
And suddenly they're about this >< far from being a label.
Why reinvent the wheel? WIth the indies coming on board iTMS, and several options for unsigned artists on board as well, there is no shortage of people willing to do all that scut work for Apple, and then upload the stuff that passes muster, whether it was authored in GarageBand or not.
Now, a Music folder on .Mac that gave you a slick way to present songs that you authored in GarageBand, with the sort of light but easy-to-use integration into GB (or iTunes) that Apple offers.... that would be cool. And it would be much more in keeping with the purpose of GB.
Originally posted by Amorph
Music needs editors. That's where the labels come in.
Labels?!?! You really mean the fans, as in - if anybody likes the musician's music in the first place...Labels don't listen to tunes anymore, they hire bands that already have a following, That was changed when Nirvana was signed by Geffen...
What a waste of resources to have any clown place their music on iTunes music store!!
Any clown can put their songs (or movies)on their .Mac account or homepage and give it out for free...(as if you're gonna reap any profit from iTunes)...
Originally posted by iDebaser
Any clown can put their songs (or movies)on their .Mac account or homepage and give it out for free...(as if you're gonna reap any profit from iTunes)...
Those damn clowns and their music!!
(Shakes a fist at the heavens)