Seems to be a reflection of the web "ideals" in general - as in, providing an outlet for free speech and free markets and empowering the little guy. So in that sense, it's a good thing; artists should be able to sell to the public without having to go through a distributor, because that's the way it works with most other goods and services.

Of course, it also means that those people will have to do all of their own marketing and promotion. And you know what that means... a metric fucktonne of spam in this forum advertising crap tracks on AJ for $3.00 apiece.

When you release your track through a label, they make an independent judgment about how much it's "worth". As we all know, producers are anything but objective about the value of their own tracks. So expect to see a lot of overpriced, overpromoted garbage on there. But there might also be some rare material from timid but talented artists.

That's how free markets usually turn out, after all... 99% of the output is junk, but the 1% at the top is far better than anything you'd ever find in a feudal system (which is what I'd call the label-dominated industry as it currently stands). Eventually, consumers will adjust; they'll learn how to filter out the noise and find what they really want.

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I think it's a great place to put up stuff that's just not good enough for labels, but good enough for some support. Actually I hope this will kill some of the crappy digital labels. Plus there is no need to put up a crappy small label because you can put music online for sale this way. Only thing is you need to promote it yourself, but that's a good thing cause if you want to grow, you need a network anyways.

For me it's a chance to get some polished oldies up! Which I just did! After I finished some remastering .
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I hope this just results in quality of labels and this being the big pool for less stuff. The good tracks will come float on top...?

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i think its a good way of getting your musik out there.... i know there a small fee but i think its worth it.....in the end what else have we got that will do this for unsinged artist...theres not many platforms that will do this for people who are just trying to experiment with new ideas and styles....audio jelly also do some promotion of your musik so thats got to be a good thing....good luck to all who sign up......i did.
its a small price to pay for an excellent service..

this doesnt add anything to the music scene imo... i think it wont last long... i would never put up my older tracks or something up there, isnt it way more satisfying to become better and wait till ur reach the level for some decent record labels.

Putting ur music online like this decreases the motivation to become better and reach a professional level, because its so easy to sell them... i dunno guys

Actually i don't care, had a quick look through some tunes, didnt bother me much and i think i will never visit AJtunes again

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Originally posted by Stino this doesnt add anything to the music scene imo... i think it wont last long... i would never put up my older tracks or something up there, isnt it way more satisfying to become better and wait till ur reach the level for some decent record labels. Putting ur music online like this decreases the motivation to become better and reach a professional level, because its so easy to sell them... i dunno guys Actually i don't care, had a quick look through some tunes, didnt bother me much and i think i will never visit AJtunes again

I'd tend to agree with you there...

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Originally posted by Stino this doesnt add anything to the music scene imo... i think it wont last long... i would never put up my older tracks or something up there, isnt it way more satisfying to become better and wait till ur reach the level for some decent record labels. Putting ur music online like this decreases the motivation to become better and reach a professional level, because its so easy to sell them... i dunno guys Actually i don't care, had a quick look through some tunes, didnt bother me much and i think i will never visit AJtunes again

Chances are it won't last long indeed. Another chance is that it will.
I don't see the point in not growing after posting my music up there.

After zero sells producers know exactly where they are (or were in case of older tracks).

And then you either quit disappointed, or make efforts to grow. But if these guys keep selling nothing, they think twice or more before they put more stuff online or continue their subscription.

Let me point out why this could be an addition to the music scene: There is so much crap for download at AudioJelly and Beatport. The producers of these tracks would be better off to post on AJTunes, for their wallet and own sake, cause labels don't pay 75%. This results in less shitty labels to dump their tracks on AJ and beatport so more quality in average. Plus labels know where to look for new talent.

It's all to much about finding labels these days, look how quality drops!

I looked around there too and the level is pretty low at this point, but in the long term I think it's a real good initiative and some good and PURE things could show up here.

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wow i found a realm gem here: http://www.ajtunes.com/details.cfm?id=201

I totally wasted 40$, 20 pounds.

Made an account for 5 minutes. Leaned back. Thought to myself, this is the dumbest idea ever. Deleted it after 5 minutes.

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Originally posted by jupiterone I totally wasted 40$, 20 pounds. Made an account for 5 minutes. Leaned back. Thought to myself, this is the dumbest idea ever. Deleted it after 5 minutes.

they charge??

jeese, they re gonna earn more money from all these people signing up than they will from sales on the main audiojelly store!

so do you get 100% royalties from your sales?

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Its 75 % royalties which is better than most labels but without all the promotion you would need..

Yep AJ will make quite a bit of money out of this..

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