this amuse music distribution service review looks at what amuse is what it
does how it works and most importantly how it will help you to make money with
your music by selling it on Spotify iTunes Amazon and several other online
music stores welcome to simple green tech I'm Zane
and on this channel I do audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you
unleash your creativity and once you do unleash that creativity and maybe you
have a song or an entire CD to sell how do you get it on to online music stores
like Spotify iTunes Amazon and so on you could use DistroKid which I reviewed
not too long ago and it's a great service it costs about $19 a year and
you can upload unlimited tracks while your membership is active now what if
you want something that's even cheaper than the $19 how about free well amuse
music distribution service is a free alternative you can even upload your
tracks for distribution right from your phone if you wanted to they say that you
get to keep 100% of your royalties and you get to keep all the rights to your
music which sounds great so why do they offer this for free
they claim that it's an easy way for their record label to discover new
artists to sign to their label and they make the money from the artists that
they sign in addition to uploading your music to all the major music stores you
can also monitor your stats from the app so you can track how well your musics
doing and once the royalties are paid out from the stores you can withdraw
your money right away so that's what Amuse is now let's dig in and upload a
song but before we do that please give this video a big thumbs up if you're
getting some value out of it so far it means so much to me I have this old song
that's like twelve years old and I'll upload that so we can go through the
process together and see how amuse works this is the first time that I'm
going through the process so you're seeing it as I'm seeing it for the first
time and also I just want to say during the signup process
was really easy to sign up and I could use my existing Spotify artist account
it was very easy to sync that so if you already have a Spotify artist account
don't worry it's extremely easy to sync it together so to get started uploading
let's click on create new release so in here you'll put the release name
now if you're doing a full CD or an EP this is the name of the CD or EP not the
song name if you're doing a single then this can be the song name here the label
name is optional if you don't put anything in here it will just use your
artist name as the label name then you would find your genre in here choose
your language and you upload your album art here and as you can see over here
they have some suggestions and regulations for your artwork so be sure
to check this out just to make sure you have everything okay with your album art
once you're ready you would click Next and here's where you would drop your
tracks so if it was a multiple track CD or EP you can add multiple tracks here
but I'm just doing a single so I'll add one and then you need to click on add
details so here's the details for my track it's already named and if I want
it I could put a different version in here if as a remix live remastered to
stick whatever recording year I'm actually going to put that at gos
2007 when I recorded it and the language is English does this track contain any
lyrics yes it does what language is your lyrics in choose the lyrics language is
it explicit and you have three options here it's explicit it's clean but there
is another version that is explicit or not explicit and there's never been any
cursing or bad language in this song and in here you can choose if it's a cover
song a remix or an original so mine's an original if you've released this song or
CD somewhere else and you have the ISRC for use that one if not you can leave
this blank and they will assign one to you for free and here you would put the
writers name and you can add more if you need to if you have any featured artists
you would put them in here any other contributors you would put those in
there click Save when you're ready and then we click Next here and this shows
you the music stores if you want to uncheck any of them for whatever reason
you would just uncheck them but I want all of them so I'm going to click save
countries I wanted it available in all countries and it looks like with the
proposed release date you can't choose anything immediately you have to choose
something at least four weeks down the road so that's what I'm going to choose
has this been released before no now we click review make sure everything's
correct in here so once you read everything in there it's all correct you
would just click this check mark here then click release and that's it so now
if we click on in progress you'll see that we have our release right there if
you had anything that was live in a store already it would be in the my
music tab then your only other option here is to sign out or to do another
release so some of the things that are different
between amuse and distrokid is with distrokid you can release pretty much
instantly I know when I did the release on my distrokid review it took like
hours for some of the stores to start receiving my track and then a lot more
were the next day whereas this I can't even release anything until four
weeks down the road which is still pretty cool because this is a completely
free service another plus about distrokid is the automated payment system that
is a huge plus especially if you work in a team or a band distrokid will
distribute those royalties automatically and you don't have to worry about
anything and one more thing I noticed about distrokid is that I feel like
I'm more in control of my release when I do it through distrokid as opposed to
amuse but again amuse is free and if that's all you can
afford then go with it but if you want to try the district kid and save some
money be sure to click the link that's in the description of this video and
you'll save seven percent on your distrokid membership click here to
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