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1. [INTRO] - Online Music Distribution Course: Hey everyone gratuitous
here in this course, you guys are going to
learn how to upload your music for
online distribution. So if you want to get your
music on Spotify, apple Music, Amazon music, any of these
online streaming platforms. I'll show you how to do that. So what's going
on is I have just finished my beat tapes by
gratuitous volume ten, and now is the perfect time to share with you how I actually upload my music to these
online streaming platforms. I'll be talking to
you about really, really preparing your music, such as, as you can see, I have created a track list. I'll talk to you about artwork and everything that
you need to be thinking of before you get
your music, therefore release. So again, if you look here, you can see I have released
a lot of beat tapes over my years of very organized, and I want to share with
you how to get organized and how to release
your music online. Okay, so let's get
into the course.
2. 1 - What Is Online Music Distribution: Alright, so before we go
further into the course, I first want to talk about
what is online distribution. So the company I
personally use for online distribution
is called distro kid. You probably see this
company out there a lot. I've been using them for
about seven years now. They've been really reliable. I'm not recommending them, but I have used them for quite awhile and they've been
really, really awesome. There's a lot of
other distributors out there like CD Baby TuneCore. So you guys can research
about what they offer you. But district kid just charges a yearly fee and the
process is really easy. You can search their website for pricing and stuff like that. Okay. What I want to talk about
regarding online distribution is just about how it works
and what to prepare. Okay. So before you get into
online distribution, you want to make sure
you have your artwork. You want to make sure that
you've mastered your music. And you wanna make sure that
you have your track list. You will see how I
lay this all out. I'm very organized
because what happens is these online distributors
there just the middleman. In other words, you are submitting your music
to destroy kid, and then they are sending
it off to Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon music, whatever streaming
platform pops up later on, they are just the middleman. So if you upload your music
and you screw up e.g. that say one of the titles. Like let's say instead of it, let's say you put just
like the tea or something. If you screw up, you're going to have to e-mail distro kid. They are gonna be the
middleman for you. But let's say Apple
Music or Spotify, they might take a while to
make that change to fix it. So take your time, make sure you're organized. And then when you
upload your music, you're going to see your brand, you're going to see your music and you can share it with
your friends and family. Or if you wanted to
sell your music, whatever you wanna
do, it's gonna be available for people to listen. Okay, So that's just this video. We will now move further into
the course because I just wanted to talk about what
is online distribution. You're just submitting
your music to an online distributor
such as district kid. Then it takes a couple of
days, sometimes a week, and then they will
email you each time it has been released
on a platform, e.g. if it's on Spotify, District get emails
you and says, Hey, your music is on Spotify. Look if you link, let's
say Check it out. Okay, Let's move
to the next video.
3. 2 - Preparing Your Album Folder: Alright, in this video, I'm
going to walk you through how I organize each release. So e.g. you can see I've released tons of beat
tapes over the years. This is my custom music
production folder. If you'd like to
learn more about it, you can check out my course. It's called a specific
music production folder. It walks you through
step-by-step how to be really organized
with your music. So as you can see, each release, this is on volume ten. So this one is now complete. I want to actually submit it so that the world can listen to it. Okay, each release,
as you can see, I have v artwork, mastered, mixed MP3
and then YouTube, as well as the track list
which is right here. And I'll talk about
that in a moment. You can see if I go to
Volume nine, essentially, I kinda have all
the same layout, artwork, mastered, mixed cat. So let's go to volume ten. And so we will talk about
the artwork in that video. I'll give you guys a cool
little bonus tip when it comes to MP3 and you're
sharing your music, I'll share that with
you right now though. If we go to MP3, if I
just play the song. So you can see all my
information is here. It shows the track number, it shows the length, it shows the title, it shows my artist name
is shows the album name. And if I play the
track just quickly, I'm only doing this
just for demonstration. You can see it actually puts
the artwork in there too. So I will share with, I'll share that with
you step-by-step because this is
important if you want to share your music through
email to somebody or if you are in your car and you
play your music like e.g. let's say you export it
as an MP3 in your car, you would be able to see your
artwork or on your phone. And we'll talk more
about that later on. Okay. Alright, so we have our artwork, we have our mastered folder. Now you can see I've MP3 and I have wave in here
at the same time. So what I'm gonna do in Windows, I'm just going to
right-click and go type. Type will give us MP3 or wave. When we are uploading our music, we are making sure it is a wave. Wave is the highest quality. So I'm just gonna go type, I'm going to hit Control and N, If you have not checked out my Windows shortcuts
for producers course, I'd highly recommend
checking out that course because you will see all my
keyboard shortcuts. Okay, So again from here what I'm doing is I'm
just hitting Control N. It's going to
duplicate this window. And then I'm going to
hit the Windows key, going to hit right
and then down. Okay, so now I have
two of the same window and I'm going to go back, and I will go to mp3. Okay, so because I went type
and I clicked this column, all the MP3 files are here. So I hold on shift,
so I clicked, held down shift, clicked here,
it highlighted everything. I'm just going to drop
those in there for later. Okay, so now I have this beat
tape only has ten tracks, and you can see we
have ten WAV files. This one here is the MP3, so I also have ten
MP3 tracks as well. And FL Studio, when
we export our music, they allow us to export both at the same time to
save you a step. So e.g. if we go File Export and it doesn't
matter if you go waiver mp3, the same window will pop up. So wherever you want to save it, e.g. auto save it here. And this window pops
up in FL Studio. You can see you can
hit wav and mp3, so you can export it
both at the same time. When I export the MP3, I do it at the 256,
anything lower than that? It's a little bit low quality, and then anything higher, it takes up a little
bit more space. But the most important one when you're doing online
distribution, putting onto distro,
kid, Apple Music. It's the wave, okay? A lot of people will say 24 bit, and that stuff gets
really technical. I keep things super simple
when I'm releasing my music. 16-bit has been CD quality
for many, many, many years. So we keep it 16 bit, okay, and then I
would just go start. And then when it comes to our
sample rate in FL Studio, here is our settings. We're gonna go to midi audio and my sampling rate is 4041. Okay, that's 44.1 is what you hear it out
there are 44,100. We will take a dedicated video about this in just a moment. I'm just giving you a sneak peak and then
we'll go more in depth. Okay? Alright, so let's
close this window. And now here is
again the beat tape. So we will cover the
artwork here shortly. Here is the master. So these are all
the master tracks. So these are up to a
commercial volume. I'm ready to submit them. These are the highest quality that we're going to
submit and when it goes to online distribution
than they do the conversion. Because as you can see, each one of these tracks
is like 37 mb 27. And if we do the whole thing, it's three, it's 350 mb. So let's say that's huge. If you are streaming your music, you are getting with the MP3. So if I go to MP3,
so this is like 765. So when we are having
compressed music, it's much lower,
which means that we can download and
stream that music. It uses less data. If somebody's at
the gym working out listening to your
music on Spotify, that is why they reduce
the quality of the music. But to the average person
who is not a producer, they really don't hear
much of a difference. And even myself, I really
don't hear too much of a difference at the
lower bit rates, yes. But at 02:56, it's still
pretty high-quality. Okay. So we have artwork, we have mastered, we have mixed. This is really important and
I'll share this with you. So this track is called, he has good plans for you. This is the one that
we were quickly looking at here in FL Studio. So how I organize this
is I have my FLP. This is the saved
official project. And then in FL Studio, I highly recommend going File, Export project data files and
then just follow the steps. So you would just
go select a folder. I'll actually create a
folder with you right here. Where does go folder for course. And I'll just share
how that looks. Okay? So first of all, let's
look in the folder. Obviously nothing is in there. If I were to go to the
folder that I have it, you can see it has all
the sounds for that song. So right now, this is the
pop-up from FL Studio. I'm just going to go folder for course, select the folder. And you can see that
now it just populated all of the sounds that are used. So kick drum, clap. And then in this track, this is a cool approach
to making beats. I used a single guitar
note for this whole beat. Okay, if I click in it,
you can see it's GTR 26. I actually use GTR 26
for the whole beat. Alright, and so what I'm
saying is when we come here to the sounds,
there's guitar 26. Okay. Now the reason I do this is because when we have
a sound kit folder, if I end up deleting this
survival drum kit folder, let's say I don't
want it anymore. All the sounds are, they are already backed up, as you can see right here. So what I'm trying to say is each track I am going through, I am backing up
all of the sounds because you want
to make sure that everything is organized
and official. And if you're looking at this folder and if
you're wondering what this means, It's
just the acronym, so HH, so he has
good plans for you. The reason I do this
is because sometimes windows has a character limit on how many characters you can have for how many folders, deep UR. So e.g. like, as you can see, each of these characters,
they get added up. And I know it in
earlier versions of Windows they had
a character limit. So I just started to do this because as you can see that a lot of characters
start getting added. And this just made it simple. So one quick recap. So again, we have our artwork, will make a dedicated
video on that. I believe that it's 3,000
by 3,000 is the size, and PNG typically will give
you a higher-quality image. Jpeg is compressed,
mastered again, 16-bit, 44.1 khz is what I upload to. Some people will go 24 bit
and a higher sample rate. I keep things really simple. And also the bigger
bit depth you have, it all takes up more
file space as well. So again, this is extremely high-quality
for the average user. And it keeps my
hard-drive small, which means backups go quicker, easier to transfer my
computer and then mixed. This is where the official
project is stored. So e.g. he has good
plans for you. This is the one that
we've been working in. This is the FLP. So if you use FL Studio, this is the project
for FL Studio. And then I make sure to backup the individual sounds in case anything happens
to my drum kits, I can at least
restore this project. It's in other words, each folder is like a backup. Essentially. I don't even
though I have duplicate files, but these sounds are so small, so it's not even a megabyte. So it's like, so this
stuff is so small and the convenience of backing up each sound is
totally worth it. And again, you just
double-click the project. You go into FL
Studio and you can backup the individual sounds by going to project data
files, the actual FLP. So FLP, what it saves, it is it saves the arrangement. It saves all like your
actual midi notes, right? And then if you've
loaded up VSTS, it saves all the knob
positions and all that stuff. So that's what saves in the FLP. But regarding the sounds such
as one-shot drum samples, stuff like this, I just like to do the
project data files. It will store the
individual sounds just for backup purposes. One little catch for
FL Studio is if you are sampling and you're
using things like Edison or Slice Six, you want to make
sure that you're dragging that slice six loop. What I'm trying to say
here is if you have loaded in a loop, you want to make sure that
you are backing up that loop. So you can just click
this right here, or you can go save,
just save the sample. Okay, That's just
one of the gotchas that I don't believe
FL Studio stores these loops in the
project data files. It does take a
little extra time, but then you're organized
and you're backed up. I just wanted to
share step-by-step how I organize this and prepare it so that when we
move forward in this course, you get an idea
because there's a lot to it in regards
to organization. But when it comes to this, you want to make sure all
your music is mastered and the artwork is pretty
important to write. When someone looks
at your album, you want to make sure
it stands out to them. So this one is volume ten. I'll just share that. So that is the artwork. Alright, so this
was a big video, but it was more about
just an overview of how I get organized. And again, this track
list is really important, which we will talk
about in another video. So let's move forward.
4. 3 - Exporting High Quality Audio: Alright, so the videos will hopefully be a
little quicker now, more to the point,
This video is going to be about how to
export your music. Okay? So I'm just going to
open up this FLP and I'll give you insight to how to actually export that
beach to the wave, as well as just a quick little
mastering chain and for loudness and what your professional beat
should look like. Okay, here I have all of
my instruments, right? We've mixed the song. If I just hit play, you just going to see
everything kinda go. Okay? So we just starts with
just a little intro. Goes into like the base with another melody, starts
with the drum loop. And then the biggest part of your song is making
sure of the intro. So how do you want to start
the intro and then the outro. So the outro is regarding the timing because when you are just releasing
a single beat, it's not too big of a deal if someone just listened
to the song, but when you have an album
and it goes one beat. So e.g. well lit up like
that track list again. So e.g. it goes piece from my family that no burdens
than the scapegoat. The outro is really important
because the fade-out, such as right here, and I'll
let you listen to that. It transitions to the next song. If it's too long, it sounds kinda awkward. If it's too short, you're
missing that emotion, so you don't want to get it perfect because it's
going to take forever, but you want to
fine tune it, okay? And in FL Studio,
how you do that is you just
right-click and hold. You're going to come
to the master and you right-click and you go
create automation clip. And you can see that
it's going to do that. And so now when I
export this song, which I'll share with
you in just a moment, the tail, the outro
ends right there. So let's just listen to
the loudness of the song. So it's really
important that you have allowed this meter. Don't feel that you have to
have like fab filter plugins. You just need to have
a loudness meter. The Yulen loudest meter is an awesome free plugin
which you can use as well. And for myself, I just like
to use the short term. This is not a mastering tutorial and I'm not going to be really talking too much about what number should
you be reaching for. But for me, I like to put
it at the short-term. So we have momentary
short-term and integrated. And so the loudness, this loudness standard,
which is called L UFS, is still kind of new
to the industry. It's really powerful because it measures audio based
off of our ears. So it's really powerful to get each track lined up in regards
to loudness, very similar. So that's a really
important thing when it comes to
mastering your music. You want to make
sure that they're all similar in loudness. Because what will happen is
if the listener is listening, let's say they're
listening to a piece from my family and then all sudden
they go to no burdens. What's going to
happen is if like no burdens is way louder
than peace for my family. The user who's
listening to your music is going to have to keep
adjusting the music. So you want to master your music for the best user experience. So you want to make sure
it's decently loud, because if it's too quiet, you are missing the
energy of the track. If it's too loud, You are
gonna be damaging the music in terms of dynamics
and loudness. But there's a sweet spot. And so that sweet
spot you kinda wanna reach so that all tracks
are at a similar volume. Okay, that's really important. So here is the loudness
of this track. Or there's momentary, which
is like instantaneous, and it isn't really usable too much for the end user like me, if I'm mixing my music or
mastering my music integrated, what this is is it's like from the beginning to the
end of the song. So if I hit stop
and then hit play, it literally measures from the beginning to the
end of the song. But there's so many changes
that happen within the music. So over the years of this
loudness coming out, I have just gone short-term and I kinda find the sweet spot is anywhere from like ten
minus ten to minus nine. Maybe -11 -11 might
be a little quiet, but once you start
getting good at mixing, and then when the mastering, that's kind of a sweet
spot where you'll find that you are able
to get a lot of energy, but you're not really
destroying the music. And I'll share that
with you in this track. Okay, so I'll hit Play. So you can hear right here at
the beginning of the song. We're at about -13,
but there's no drums. Bass comes in. So -12. Once the drums come in. And then this is kinda more of a simple track, not
too many melodies. So I'll put minus nine. And this is, this is the chorus. The chorus is always going to be the loudest part of your song. So it's always a good
sweet spot to measure. This track might be
mastered a little bit loud. But when I was listening on
different audio systems, I just liked the
way how it sounded, it sounded full polished. The drums are
distorting a little bit on these ear buds
and listening to. But There you guys go. That was just a little insight. So I've mixed my music, all my music is
going to the master. That's how audio works
than we do mastering. And then we have what's
called our mastering chain. So you can see I have all
these different plugins on my mastering chain,
each beats different. I always kinda do
different things. And then the theory
very final plug-in. You want your limiter and
you put it to minus one. That is the new
standard at the moment, then the biggest thing after
that is called dithering. So you just want to put 16 bits. Now again, I'm showing
you off of that filter. I'm going to show you here off of FL Studio in just a moment. So everything I've
talked about can apply to all stock
plug-ins up to this point. Again, the loudness meter, you will want to look into
the Yulen loudest meter. It's a free loudness
meter and you can just do the short-term
like I was doing there. But for me I like to use fab filter plugins and it has
a loudness meter built-in. So I just use one plug-in to do a limiter and loudness
at the same time. Once you get your loudness
and you're happy with it. Again, I would just export
my track as is right now. And I'll share that
with you right here. So let's say we go Save. So you can see in FL Studio you also have the option for
dithering right here. So if you don't have fat filter, you can just put your
dithering right there without going super,
super intense. This is just like the super
low-level of your audio. I don't want to go
into that at all. Let's practice is typically whenever you are
changing bit depth, typically we just want to apply dinner and then you
can export your track. Okay, So just to recap, made the song we've mixed it, comes into the master, the master or song. We want to master it quite loud, but not so loud that
we're wrecking the song. But we want to get that
sweet spot as you saw, this one is a little bit loud. It was about minus eight. It touched there. So it's about minus nine. Okay, again, that's the
turnouts like in diverse. Want a little bit
quieter, but it's very energetic, really full sounding. Kind of more of a
chill kind of beat. So right here, I put
dithering on fab filter. They have like if you want
to do different styles, this is like a whole
different world. Like this is like
super nerdy stuff. I just keep it really basic. Okay? If I didn't
have fab filter, like let's say I
went to none. Then. Now when we export our song, you just go file export. And it doesn't matter
if people waiver MP3 because I shared before, you're gonna see if I go save. You just want to select wav and mp3 because it's going
to save you a step. Because if you're just going to submit your music to
online distribution, you only have to do wave if you are really organized
as a producer and you're going back-and-forth
through emails with different people and they want
to hear your music or etc. Export both. It's going
to save you a step. It's all about time,
especially when you're rendering
because exploiting the song might take
a minute or two or maybe three depending on
the power of your computer. And then again, you want
to apply dithering. If you didn't do dithering
on a third party plugin. So you only wanna
do dithering once. And then I would just go start. And then what will
happen is it would export both a wave at an MP3. So I always export it
into the master folder. And then as you saw at the
beginning of this course, I had a wave and an MP3. I did that on purpose
just to share with you that I had two versions, right? So the wave is the high-quality, this is what we are submitting. And then the MP3 again, I'll do a cool little
bonus video showing how to get this looking really
organized for your brand. Alright, so that is how
you export the song and you should be left with all of your wave files just like this. The biggest thing like I said, is make sure you
have your track list and make sure that
the Phaedo times go from one to another. This track list
is pretty tricky. Sometimes this release, I was going through
it quite a bit. I just couldn't get them right. And I'll talk more about that in another video in
this course here.
5. 4-1 - Dos and Don'ts of Album Artwork: So I'm not going
to be teaching you how to create your artwork. In my opinion, I would recommend hiring a professional
if you're really serious about your artwork because your artwork is
a part of your product. That's what your listeners
are going to see, or you can create your
own artwork in Photoshop. And in the next video, I'm going to explain to you the size which is
3,000 by 3,000. In this video, I want to talk about things that you should not be putting in your artwork. So here's some album
artwork rules. So whenever you're dealing
with creating content such as your artwork, there's
copyright issues. So e.g. fonts, and I'll
quickly share that with you. So there is a website
called duff font.com. And a lot of people, especially if they're
really good at Photoshop, they like always play
with different fonts. Different fonts are
really, really special. But you have to see
here that you can see it's free for personal use. So if you were to download this, a lot of times there might be a text file for where
to purchase a license. As you can see, free
for personal use, free for personal use. See this one is, there's
different licenses. Okay, So just to confirm, so for fonts you must have a
license for commercial use. And now I just want to
talk about the graphics. So when we have a graphic, e.g. in this background, you
can see like this is a speaker down Here's an
audio interface, a monitor. So this was my studio. I took a picture, so I own the copyright
to that image. And if you are
creating your artwork, you want to make
sure that you own the copyright to
any of the images, any of the fonts you're using. If you're gonna be using
a brand name or logo, again, you have to have
ownership or a right to use it. If you want more information
on artwork rules, just go destroy
kid artwork rules. And it says what are the
requirements for album art? And it will talk about the size, but as well as things like this. So streaming services will, will reject artwork
that contains a URL, Twitter name, nudity,
anything like that. Okay, so let's continue. So for graphics again, you must have a
commercial license to use that photo or take
your own photo. That's probably the
best way to do things. And then again, you
could just put like a background layer
and stuff like that. So things that you should not be putting into your artwork. Again, no URLs like
no links to e.g. like WW dot your website.com, not allowed social names not
allowed to put the price. One other really important
thing to note is that your artwork should be
unique for each release. For my beat tapes, I use the same artwork, but I change the colors. So that is how I get away
with using similar artwork, but I drastically
change the colors. So if you look at one to
another, it's quite different. So as you can see,
so you can't use the same artwork for
multiple releases. Again, if you release one
song, you have the artwork, then you release another song and you use that same artwork, you're not allowed
to do that stuff. Okay, So really the biggest
thing I wanted to get across to you was for
copyright issues. Make sure if you're using fonts, that you have a commercial
license for any photos, make sure that you have
ownership to use them. And again, in my opinion, I would suggest hiring it out. If you don't have the skills. That's one of the
benefits to having the skills that not only can
you do the work yourself, you can make the changes. So that's probably one of the
most annoying things with hiring things out is
what we call revisions. So let's say somebody created
some artwork for you. They sent it to you
and you're like, oh, I want this changed. The person who's designing that artwork for the
price they're charging. Typically they might only have a couple of revisions in there. And it's just like
the back-and-forth, which is really annoying because sometimes you might email them, sometimes they can take a while, maybe they send it back
and it's not what you said in the e-mail because
sometimes they're busy too. They have a lot of
different clients. So if you can learn
to do it yourself, that is ultimately the
best way go about it. Which is why for my beat tapes, That's why I approached it
with just a simple layout. I changed the colors
and I'm good to go. I don't have to rely on anybody. It's really enjoyable
because again, that revision stuff
sending back-and-forth, I've had to do that quite
a few times over my years. And it's probably one of
the most annoying things because I'm the type
of person where I like to have control because
it's as fast, right? I can wake up in the
morning, work on it, or if it's nighttime, I
can work on it, whatever. I don't have to send
an email, wait, and hope that they applied
the changes right? But if you do find a
good graphic designer, typically they are
very, very good. But that is some
things for artwork. In the next video, I'm
going to break down what's all more
involved with art work and what to think about
and the size and how to prepare the artwork
for submission. So I'm not going
to be teaching you how to create the artwork. I'm gonna be showing you
what the artwork should look like and it's preventable
and it's ready to submit. Okay, So let's hop
into the next video.
6. 4-2 - Getting the Best Album Artwork: Alright, in this video, it's
all about your artwork. So what dimensions and all that stuff we're going
to talk about, okay? So as you can see, I
have a PNG and JPEG, and I'll talk more about
that in just a moment. So I'll just hover over
my mouse and you can see that the dimensions
are 3,000 by 3,000, the file size is about
4 mb in this case. And a PNG will typically give you higher-quality than a JPEG. I just went to Google, typed in district kid artwork size, and they're telling
us 3,000 by 3,000. They also say that the
minimum size requirement is 1,000, 1,000. But my recommendation
to you is the three by 3,000 because
when it comes to images, if you have a very
high resolution image such as 3,000, 3,000, you can resize it and
it will still look very high-quality
at the lower sizes. But if, let's say you had a 200 by 200 and you're trying to put it to like 2000 by 2000,
it'll look really blurry. Okay? So your image size
should be 3,000 by 3,000 and it says
perfectly square. Now I do want to talk to
you about if you have a website or how to
resize this image. And there's gonna be a lot
of valuable information for you right here. Some of it's gonna
be kinda nerdy, but it's really important
for you to understand if you have a website to get
the best performance. But again, if you're just
doing online distribution, this is your artwork,
you can move on. Okay. So I have a PNG and JPEG here. The reason I have
this is because the PNG is higher-quality. This is what I use for
online distribution. The JPEG typically is a
little bit smaller file size, which means that the
website will load faster. And this is what I used
to resize the image. So I'm going to open up
both of these, okay? So you can see a PNG and a jpeg. And so what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to zoom in between the
a and the T. And around here you start seeing some blocky ***** in the jpeg. Okay, So the block
Enos is kinda hear, I'm not sure if it's
going to pick up as I'm recording this video. And again, this is
really nerdy stuff. But over here you can see
some blocking is going on. This is called compression and we don't get
that in the PNG. So again, I'm going to
zoom in between the a and the T k. So again, in the JPEG, I'm
going to go back to the jpeg and we're just going to just
really, really quick. So again, this is kinda
like the block Enos in the JPEG because this
is a compressed file, the PNG is a much
higher-quality file and we're not getting
that block enough. Okay, that's it In
regards to the nerdiness. So that's the P and G. That's what I use for
online distribution. Here is the JPEG. Now I want to talk a couple of different ways to
resize the image. Okay? So the quickest way is
if you use Windows, I just use Microsoft Paint. You could just go resize pixels and then whatever
size you want it to be, you can go like 500
by 500, e.g. go. Okay? And then you can hit Save. And as you can see, that is
the file size right there. But sometimes the
Microsoft paint is a little bit low
quality in regards to, I think it even kinda like can change the colors and stuff. So, but it is a quick way that the average user would not
really know the difference. I'm just going to go
Control C, Control V. Again, here is another cool
software that you can use to resize images or even just do
what's called compression. And I'll talk about
that in just a moment. Okay, So this is a free software and there is a paid
version as well. You can click here, this
is what it looks like. And then it also
allows you to resize multiple versions of that image. And again, this isn't
a tutorial on how to use this, but it's
really, really easy. All you have to do is you
just literally just click and drop it in there and it
will compress it for you. So as you can see,
it took it from the three are almost 4 mb
down to 500 by 500. And now it's 225. That is called compression. And what it's doing is
it's taking the image and similar pixels and similar
colors that are, blends them. And it just reduces the file
size to the average user. You would not notice
it with our eyes, but you get the benefit of
a faster loading website. Okay? Again, if I'm gonna
be using this image to drag into the mp3s as well. Because again, like I
was saying in the MP3, if we click this, you can see
that there is no artwork. And if we were to
drag in this huge, this one that's like 4 mb, It's going to make the
MP3 like doubled in size. Okay, so you'd want to be
using that 500 by 500, which is on a 200 kb. It adds very, very
minimal size or it, and there's one last way
you can resize the image, and that's simply
just in Photoshop. You can export the image
to a different dimension. But sometimes I find Photoshop actually changes
the image like e.g. when it comes to the text, it can make the borders and stuff a little
bigger and smaller. And I'll explain that
in just a moment. So what I just
want to share with you is this wondering
here is the JP, jpeg Mini, which
is this software. This one here, I'm
just going to drag in. So this one is, I'm going
to right-click, go. It. We're going to resize. This is Microsoft Paint. We'll put 500 by 500, save it. So this one will go
Microsoft Paint. And then now I have Photoshop here loaded up and
I will export this. So the keyboard shortcut is
Control Shift, Alt and W. There's so many to know. And so how this can work is
when you're going to export, you just put it to 500 by
500 was clipped to this one. And so it will resize it. But I want to share
with you that it does skew the
image a little bit. And then this one here
is the Photoshop one. So now we can compare
between the Photoshop, the Windows Paint, and
then that jpeg mini, little, cool little software. Okay, so again, Microsoft Paint, look at the color, colors
kind of washed out. Jpeg mini keeps the, the color and it's not
as compressed to k. So again, if you can see it's
kinda blocky and blurry. This is what we call
compression, but again, our image size is so small now and we're compressing
and we're doing a lot of hard stuff to it. But you can see that jpeg mini definitely has some compression, but it's much cleaner. So the jpeg Mini is a lot better than the
Microsoft Paint. So again, I'm just
going to delete the Microsoft Paint because
that was the worst. So again, this is Photoshop. This one here is the jpeg Mini. And the biggest difference
really is the text, but I'm also seeing some
differences all in here. So really nerdy stuff, but I did that on
purpose because I want you just to get
an idea of how to resize an image and the pros
and cons of what happens. And what I'm gonna do
is I'm just going to drag this one here. I'm just gonna go,
I'm going to hit F2, control C because
all that copies it. I'll hit Escape. We'll come here and I
will go dash 500 by 500. But the reason I wanted
to share that with you is because when
we go to the MP3, that is the artwork
that we will use, we will embed it into here. It will be a fault,
a small file size. So to keep it simple, if you're just doing
online distribution, 3,000 by 3,000, you're
going to upload that, you're good to go and
PNG is higher-quality. I use the JPEG to
do my resizing.
7. 5 - Uploading Music to Online Distribution: Alright, so we've covered
a lot in this video. We're going to actually upload
our music to destroy kid. I'm going to walk you through step-by-step how to do it, okay? It was really important. We talked about the artwork
because without our work, you can't upload your music. And I also talked
about how to export your music so that it
is ready for the world. Now before you
upload your music, it's really important that you know your track list, okay, the track list is what order do you want your beats to be in? But first, let's login
to destroy Kate. Okay. Again, you can use
any online distributor, but I'm just gonna be using
distro kid in this course. And so here we go. Here is distro kid. Okay, so as you can see, here's all my beat tapes which I've released over the years. Obviously these platforms are
going to change over time. So I'm not going to really
go over distro kid. This is just how to upload it because it's
going to work the same no matter really what
distributor you are using. Okay, so I'm just going
to go upload music. And so here are all the services that you can upload them to. Alright, so I paused the
video there and I'm back. There was a lot of
reading and research regarding all these different
distributors because you have to think about what's your mindset behind her music
if you're trying to sell your music and really make it in this music industry
based off of your music. Then I guess you
could just check all these off and just hope that you're making the most money. But for me, I don't
really want people using my music if I don't know who they are and what
they're doing with it. E.g. like let's say
Instagram and Facebook. And this is a really
pro tip that I was, that I learned as I was
going through this, TuneCore actually describes
each of these pretty good. So e.g. I. Went like TuneCore, Facebook. And the first one will be
like their Facebook page. But we come down and this
is that the Facebook music, Instagram stories and reals. And that's what I
have right here. So you have to read closely
because it says enrolling, enrolling your releases in Facebook allows creators to put your music in the
content that they create while You
know what I mean. So some of them could
be using your music in a way that maybe
you don't want. But if you don't care,
if you just want to monetize as much as possible, then click it all off, right, so these are the ones
that I've went through. I check them all out. A lot of them are
just different parts of the world where
streaming as popular. Alright, so we are moving on to the next step here
of how many songs. So again, I know that my
release has ten songs. This has not been
previously released. My artist and producer named his gratuitous with that capital T. One thing I will point out is if we scroll all the way down, because my artist name is a little unique
with that capital T. It says non-standard
capitalisation is detected and Apple
may convert it. But I'll have to check
that off to confirm that. Yes, because that is how I spell my producer
name as you can see. Okay. Okay. The release date is the 19th. That is my record label. So what I'm gonna do to
get organized here is I am going to hold on the
Windows key and hit left. And what that does is it snaps it right to the left screen. This is really powerful, as you'll see when
we go through this. Okay, so I'm going to
upload my artwork. So here's the artwork
again, this is the PNG, this is the high-quality one and you just simply
drag it there. Okay, Here is some
things that says don't increase the size
of smaller images. Again, you can read
all this stuff regarding to what's not allowed. And when you do do your work, I would suggest looking that up. You know, what are
some things that you shouldn't put
into your artwork. So album title, so I put it beat tapes by gratuitous vault ten. Very important that
everything here is. You don't want to
screw up album price. So again, depending on how
serious you are taking your, your music, because for me, I just upload my
music to make it really easy for someone
to access my music. E.g. like let's say I went to the dentist and the hygienist
who always cleans my teeth. I'd be like, Oh, I just released some new music or
it's on Spotify. I'm just going to
price it right there. Okay. Language is English. This is a really
tricky understanding what genre you're music is. N, for myself as a producer, I'm kind of all over the
place like I like dance, hip-hop, rap song genres
are really tricky for me. And as you can see,
these are all the ones that destroy Kid offers you. So I'm just going to
scroll through here. You can pause the
video at any time. But I already went
through this and I know the ones I'm going to select
to speed up this course. So I'm gonna go hip
hop rap secondary. I'm going to put dance. So there's dance. So each track we have
to do this one by one. So as you can see, it's
a very involved process, which is why I was
explaining that if you're organized right here regarding all your
stuff and you have your track list and
all this stuff, you will see that it just
makes the process so much easier and you're not
going to screw up a cat. So we put the song title, don't put the
artist's name there. If it's a cover, don't include the original artist's
name, No years and dates. They're just wanting
the actual title. So e.g. because I
have my track list, I know it's peace for my family. So I would hit P instead
of trying to find it. Showed us at peak piece for
my family, I'll hit F2, I'll go Control C, and I can just go Control V
and paste that in. So just knowing
keyboard shortcuts will really speed you up here. So add featured artists to song title while there are
no featured artists, but if there was, I
guess he would hit Yes. And then if there's
featured artists, lot of times they put in
brackets like featuring whoever. So add version info
to song title. If there's profanity
like swear words, maybe there's a radio
edit where they kind of silence those words
or in stuff like that. So you could do that there, but it's normal for me, the audio file, so you
want the wave here, okay? So I'm gonna go little
piece for my family. I think I can drag that
in just like that, but the safest way
is to hit Browse, obviously equal a piece from
my family, mask your truck. Well, we should have
already mastered our track. This is just another
service and stuff that you gotta be a
little bit careful with these online distributors. They always are trying to upsell you with
different things which you'll see at the very end of
this video moving forward. So I do not have a Dolby
Atmos spatial audio. My music is just stereo. It's just a left and a right. And so, no, I don't
have that songwriter. I wrote this song. Now the songwriter real name. So if you click Y right here, It was explaining
here that Spotify. Now we'll put the real
names in the credits, not the artist's name. What they're saying here
is if you click here, this is the example
that they're giving us. So I will click here. Let's make this a
little bit smaller. And so this track right here, I'll click here, and you
can go show credits. So performed by these like the artists names and
then it's written. So this is kind of
like how it goes. There's a lot of reading. So if you guys have ever
taken my courses before, I always tell you guys you
have to read to become a good music producer
because you got to pay really close attention
to all these details. So I'm going to
put Reilly Weller. You could put your middle
name there if you want, but sometimes there's privacy and stuff like So I would just put my first and last name. And then what you'll
notice is it says copy these songwriters
to all tracks on this album because
it'll save me a step. So I'm just gonna make sure my first and last name
is spelled correct. So I'm going to go copy
these songwriters to all tracks this will pre-fill. So let's, let's do it. I'm going to scroll
down and we should see by first and last name could
just go to the second one. This will be the third one. So Riley, weather, and
then there you go. Okay. So explicit lyrics? No, there's no Is
this a radio edit? Know this is a clean song and always has been instrumental. Know this isn't instrumental and contains no lyrics,
preview time. So when it is on iTunes or
Apple Music or Spotify, and as someone clicks
and then they're able to preview the song. So e.g. if they have not purchased your song and
they are previewing it. For me, I just let
the streaming service decide like what's the
best part of the song. You're getting really,
really technical. But again, if this is your
business and you make money strictly from your
music and your releases, this is something which I would look into because you want to pick the best part of the song if someone's new
to your artist's name, because your artist's
name is essentially just a brand, right? When someone's new
to your brand, first impressions count
and living them here, the best part of
the song might be enough to make them
purchase your music. But I'm just going
to let the streaming service decide that for me. The track price again, I'll just put them all
like the lowest price K, Okay, so I'm gonna go to
my track list, no burdens. So I'm just going to hit N. Know burdens hit F2, control C, I'll hit Escape, will come here. I'll paste that in there. And again, add featured
artists to song title. There are no featured
artists at aversion. Know this is just
a normal version. I'm gonna go no, no burdens. I can click and drag that in. And then also it will
add an ISRC code. And ISRC code is how your
track gets monetized. So when it's out there
on these platforms, that is how they identify
your song because e.g. if there was someone else with
a song called No burdens, will know burdens song was it. Your ISRC code is a digit
that gets embedded. What we call Meta. Tags are metadata, and it
gets added in to the song. And then that is how you get
paid off of your ISRC code. Alright? And
actually if you have different versions of the song, you need a different ISRC code. If there is your
instrumental that said, I like this, but then
let's say you had a video, like actual music video. And let's say the music video
is a little bit different. Sometimes they might
have scenes within the music video where
there's different audio, like someone might be
talking at different parts. That would be a different audio. So a different ISRC code
from my understanding. Okay. Again, Dolby Atmos know
songwriter. I wrote the song. Yes, there's my name. Explicit lyrics. No. This is a radio edit. The song as clean instrumental. This is an instrumental. Again, I'm going to
let the streaming service do that for me, $0.69 because that's
just what I'm gonna do. So I'm going to pause the video. I'll go through this. Alright, I'm back. So again, this would
be my actual layout. As you can see, I have aligned
distribution right here. I have my tracks up here, and then I would have my
track list right here. This way I can see everything. It just made the workflow super, super nice and easy. I'll just quickly talk
about these services again. And then I will talk about some other really important tips that I would highly recommend you follow so that
you don't screw up. Again, these services,
most of them are, again, strictly just kinda streaming if someone wants
to listen to their music. A lot of these AI. Turned off just because
either like someone can use the music without my
consent or some of them, I couldn't really get too much information
on like adapter, I couldn't really find much on. And media net seems
more like advertising, like a Southern wants to
use your music for an ad. Again, I just removed my stuff
from that and that's it. Now again, when it comes
to the actual track, a couple of things
just to mention is if you are doing cover songs, which means using
someone else's song, that is an option here. I'll just scroll down here. So you're here. So songwriter and other
artists wrote it. So you'd have to click
that off so that there's no copyright because I guess
you can use people's songs, but you have to do
it in the right way. Because it's all, all music
production, all music. It's ownership, copyright. Okay. One other thing I'll
just share with you here quickly is again, preview clips. So if you do want to specify, this is just what it looks like. So you click here, then you'd specify what minute,
what second, and then I believe it plays a big thirty-seconds of the
song or something like that. Okay, and one more really
important tip I have for you is I would highly recommend
going right to the very top, your very first track and
going through each 11 by one, makes sure that the
title is spelt correct. Make sure everything is
checked off properly because it's a lot easier
to submit it once, then having to send emails
and getting it changed. Okay, It's boring, but I promise you it is
worth your time, okay? Alright, so I have
ten tracks here. Again, this is how it all looks. And now we're gonna go to
all those add-ons, ok, so extras, if you want to
select this stuff is up to you. But for me, I'm not doing that. This store maximizer, I
think how it works is if I submit my music
today and then tomorrow, like more streaming
platforms get released, then they will say, We will automatically deliver
them to the new stores. But I'm just going to leave it checked off social phone number. This is to get into if
you want to follow up with people through
email or text messages. In my opinion, I would
recommend having your own email provider or her own service where you can capture people's
emails or texts, phone numbers, where you
can follow up with them. That way you have
ownership of that content. Loudness, normalization. This is mastering k. We've already
mastered our songs. Title mastering. Again, we
have already mastered or songs leave a legacy is a little interesting. So
I'll read this one to you. So District kid will
never delete this album, even if you cancel your account or your credit
card has declined. Again because we have a
onetime payment of this. So that one's up to you. But for me, I'm just going
to leave that disabled. Okay? Alright, Now here
is the final one. So I've recorded all this
music and I'm authorized to sell it in stores worldwide
and collect all royalties. Again, it's all about copyright. Who is the owner? If you make music
with other people, you have to make sure
that credit is given and splits and all
that kind of stuff. That's the nice thing of being a producer who can do it all. You don't have to really have strings attached to anything which
makes them so easy. Alright, so I'm not using any other artist's name or song titles or album titles without
their approval, right? This is all an original product is what they're asking for. Non-standard capitalisation. Again, my gratuitous
my capital T. And then I have agreed to
the terms and conditions. And so I'll make this big let's just confirm
and that will be it. So let's just go. I'll just do one
more quick check. So again, here's everything. I've checked off the song names. It has not been
previously released. I have my artist name,
Spotify. Apple Music. If you want to set a
release date in the future, that is where you would do that? In my opinion, I would they're
seeing at least one week, but in my opinion, I'd
probably say like two weeks, like if you're really trying to promote a song and you really want it to be available on every platform when
it's released. I would look towards
maybe two weeks. Okay. Back down here at the bottom, I'm going to hit Done. This is going to submit and you will see it will all upload. So here's the last track. Again, this will be
based off of, I guess, how fast their
servers servers are, as well as how fast your
Internet connection is. It's saying Please wait. And so this is the, this is the actual process
of how I would do this. It is quite involved. Again, being organized is
super, super important. Again, it says, Please wait, so don't click anything, just kinda go with it. And there we go. I've seen, I've seen
it starting to load. There we go. Done. That was easy, wasn't it? Kinda easy? There's
a lot of work. So it says iTunes, Apple Music often
happens faster, sometimes the same day, but I'll always offer Spotify
new deliveries, take about five business
days to go live. So did you know, uh,
so streaming services have started showing full
length music videos. I did not know that,
so that's kinda cool. So get to work. So we made
a pre save page and I'll check that out with
you guys so you can customize it however you want. If you want to do this stuff,
if you want to share it. Let's just listen to
it, see what they did. This is preview. Next one. Next one, then
that that'd be at. So this is useful if
you want to share it to your audience and you can capture people's
emails right here. So I'm not sure how that works. But again, if you're
serious about it and you want to build your brand, It's all about building
an email list, gets the number one secret
to online business. So what's next? So add credits and liner notes. Let's check this out. Again. All this stuff
changes all the time. You can add so much
information off of like pertaining to that song of who was all involved like e.g. songwriters, musicians,
producers, engineers, your studio, the gear,
so much information. This is all called Meta data. And so you click
here to learn more. And this is Philip, he is the founder
of district kid. Basically what gets sent to most online streaming platforms
is like the album title, song title, artist name, and general info like genre, language and release date. So what's being added? So in distributed we have the ability to add songwriters,
musicians, producers, all of this types of information
you can even add like a social media links and contact information
for your bookings. So this is all called metadata. At the moment, it
doesn't look like too many platforms take advantage of the really
more in-depth stuff. But some platforms take
advantage of like lyrics. What they're saying is
they're just kinda building the infrastructure for when these other
streaming services hopefully take advantage of it. See how will these
streaming services use it, uses, use the information. It's too soon to know. But streaming
services are getting serious about
collecting metadata. And again, we will find
that out later on. So again, like I said, to be a producer
in this industry, especially someone who
is doing it themselves. It's all about reading. Reading, reading, okay. So I guess you just
add your information in here, whatever
you'd want to add. So I'm gonna go back and I'm
gonna go back to my music. And you're going to see
that it's a yellow. I'm going to click into
it again and we will see. So again, there is my UPC code. If I wanted to actually
make physical copies. The UPC code is like the barcode on the back of your album. I could afford it. So everything seems good
is what they're saying. And again to You go girl, it didn't really have lyrics. It just kinda had like
quick one-liners, like You go girl and
stuff like that. So I just put the lyrics, but I really don't think
that's considered lyrics. Lyrics are typically
like lyrics to a song. You could do splits,
which is really awesome if there is multiple
people involved. That's a really nice thing of
distro kid is doing splits because figuring
out all royalties, That's a huge headache every single month or every year, however you wanna do it. And this can be
done all automatic. There's my record
label and there is all these stores, it's
been submitted to. There's the hyperlink again, this is really useful to share. It allows people to
be ready for it. And I guess you can always
add to those add-ons. Alright, so that is
this video regarding uploading your music to
a streaming platform. This one is distro kid, and I will also share with you at the end of this
course some emails that district could sends me
just to give you an idea of when the music is accepted
and actually made available. I'm going to make one bonus
video here about getting your MP3s to get them all fresh looking in a sense of
we add in our track number, our title, the artist, the album name, and
put in that graphic. Okay.
8. 6 - MP3Tag: ID3 Tagging Music: Alright, in this
video we're gonna be talking about how to get your artwork and add in all
that metadata into your mp3. Okay? And so it is the
software called MP3 tag. It's totally free. So huge shout out
to this guy who has created it will go contact. So you show it to fluorine. So you just go download
and you can download it. Alright, so nowadays most
of our computers or 64 bit, so that's the one
you'd want to install. So this is called
ID3 tagging, Okay? And there is so much
information you can add into your mp3. I keep it really, really simple. So anyways, so just go
download and download it. And this is how it works. Okay? So this is MP3 tag. This is what it looks like. I'm just going to hit hold
on Windows key and left. I'm just going to go Control a and drag all of these n. Okay? So what I'm gonna do is I think about the things that are common to every single
one of these songs, such as the album name, which is beat tapes by
gratuitous volume ten. The artwork is
gonna be the same, the year is gonna be the same, the comment is going
to be the same. The artist is gonna be the
same, stuff like that. Okay, So I'll explain
why that's important because when we
put in the title, all that stuff is not the same. And so you have to do
those ones individually. And it's all about saving
time and workflow. So I'm just going
to press Control an a or you can just
click and drag. But again, keyboard
shortcuts are really useful. So controlling a. Then I'm just going to drag
this artwork onto here. Now you have to make
sure to save it. But again, I'm just going
to go through this. So I'm going to go
gratuitous and then beat tapes by gratuitous. If all ten, it is 2023. I'm not putting the track name. You could put the genre for
all of them if you want, or each genre is different, e.g. no burdens in this
case is a dance track. The comment, I'm
just going to go put my website and then the artist, so gratuitous, the composer, I'll put Reilly Weller and then gratuitous, just like that. And then there is
no disc number. So sometimes if you
purchase an album, there could be like
disk one disk to, this is more like
back in the day and that's where that can go. So I'm gonna hit Save. And so all of that information you're going to see
is starting to, starting to be
embedded into here. So now this is where the track
list also comes in handy. What I'm gonna do is we're
going to start at the top. So I'm going to
piece for my family, I F2 and here and go piece for my family.
I'll put track one. I'm going to hit Save.
You have to hit Save, otherwise it will not show. And there you go. So I'm just going to
quickly go through this. I'll do one or two more
with, you know, burdens. We'll go to Control S. Number
three is the scapegoat, so I just hit T and it brings it to the
closest down there, F2 control C, hip. Three. Save it. Again. As you can see, all the bulk information such as
the artist's name, all that stuff. That's all bulk. So I don't have to
keep entering it in. Now all I'm doing is just
the track and the title, which is way faster. So last one, another
little cool trick. You can also hit track to
reorganize the column. And it will put all the ones you haven't done at the
bottom for you, or in this case at the top. And that way it kinda
gets them out of the way. And it makes it a little
easier on your eyes and you can focus on the
ones you haven't done. Another reason why I
like to do the copy and paste is because you
don't have to retype. Every time you have to retype, there's a chance of
making a mistake. And if you know
that you've typed all these incorrect copying and pasting the
text that's already there is such a safe way to go. So Never such time as
this F2 Control C, click over here, control V. And it is trash can, and I will save that. And then as you can see, if I hit the track numbers here. So something's weird going on because you can
see here you go, girl, I already have it seven and everything and it's
not showing there. So I'm going to try to
right-click and go refresh. There we go. So I hit the column
1234, all that stuff. So now watch if I
double-click this, you're going to see there's your professional beat if you
share this online or e.g. if you are e-mailing
people about your music who are really interested in using
it for whatever. That's your branding. And here's the title, Here's the artist,
here is the name. I come over here. So I'll just do this and
then we call properties. You can see there is all
the information pertaining to this track and
now here is this. So what I would do now is you can put a read me
file in here if you wanted. So you go like new text. And I would say, read me. And then in here you
could say, thanks, thanks for listening
or something, and you can leave your
website for them. That's a really
powerful little trick. It's totally free for you to do. You added in there, and
now I'm just going to right-click this and we're
going to go Send to, send to, and we're
going to go compressed. Okay? And so what this is going
to do is it will put it into a zip file for us. That's what I would
use as a download. You can put it into some
type of cloud service if you want to send someone a link to download the beat tape. Again, these are just kinda
like the finishing touches of making your
brand professional. And the course was about
online distribution, which I showed you how to do. But like I'm saying, there's a lot of thought
that goes into it to remain consistent
and professional all throughout the process. So now when I go to
release my 11th beat tape, because I'll share
that with you. So as you can see, I am working on my 11th beat
beat tape already. There you go. So
there's the artwork. Now you know, the PNG
at 3,000 by 3,000. Pretty straightforward.
If you're gonna be uploading
this to your website, you don't want to be using
huge files like that. It's going to slow
it on your site. We have the mastered again, these are the
high-quality WAV files. So there's the mixed, this
is the actual project file. Here is the sounds
for that song. Again, if I ever deleted
sounds out of the drum kit, each song is backed up itself. And then again, this track list, I'm telling you this is so important to have
laid out right here, this track list, okay, and I'll quickly
just share something that I forgot to share in the, when we were talking
about the track list. A software like this. So this is, this is free. It's called Microsoft Visual
Code or Visual Studio. It's free and an alternative
is sublime text, but Studio, visual Studio
is way more popular. Now cab, I'm going
to make it bigger. And what I want to
quickly talk to you about is the workflow. So e.g. let's say you've laid off all your
tracks just like this. And you're just like, Okay,
this is how I like it. And then you listen,
you're like, I'll do what? I want to change
one of these songs. But it's kinda tricky
because it's like, well, if I remove this song, It's like then I want it here. So your order can get
really messed up. So here's a really cool trick. So you can hold on Alt in these programs because these are essentially like for code. If you want to write
like PHP code or HTML or JavaScript or any
of that kind of code stuff. These are code editors
and so they have cool functionality to be
able to do stuff like this. If you hold on Alt and click, you can see that I can start typing at the same
time on the same line. So e.g. let's say
my soul feels it. Okay? So let's just
say we take that out and I'm just going
to put it down here. So let's say we want to
put my soul feels at number ten and all the
tracks I want to move up. So if I were to
come here with Alt, so I'm going to
click at the very, very beginning of
all of these tracks, just like this, check this out. I'm going to hold
on shift and end. It goes right to the end. So I'm going to cut that. We can go up and paste that. And then there you go. Alright. So I'm going to come here,
I'm gonna go shift and home, control an X to cut it. Come here and boom again, if you want to learn
more about all those kind of
keyboard shortcuts, I teach a lot of that stuff in the Windows shortcuts
for producers course. So that is it for this course, I will make a bonus video
here as well at the end. So in other words,
I just have to wait for distro kid to send me some emails about the submission and when it's actually released. And I'll talk to you
in the next video.
9. 7 - Email Confirmation Successful Upload: Alright, so wrapping
up the course, the beat tape is now
officially live. So it's been a couple of days. And you will see
that district kid sends you a lot of emails
regarding what's going on. I have quite a few emails here. It did not notify me regarding Apple Music and other platforms. I believe it used to, but it is submitted and I'm
going to walk you through. Okay. So here's a couple of
e-mails that you would get. So e.g. each song that we're saying that each song
was submitted successfully. It was saying that the artwork, so we verified the artwork, the format, the size, and everything looks good. So these ones are all the song. And then here's the update two. So this is all the platforms
that I submitted to, like I shared with you. And it's just giving you an
idea of how long it takes. It did take about Spotify. It was only a couple
of days there. But again, if you are
wanting to launch this, Let's say you want
to share it with your email list or
with your fanbase, really makes sure that you
have at least that one week, maybe two weeks,
launch it and make sure it's ready before you
send it out there. Okay. They also sent cool little
image here that you can share on social media or wherever you want to
share about your release. And this is the biggest
one, so it says Your Life. And again, this one
was for Spotify. It is on Apple Music
at the moment as well. But again, I didn't get
notified for that and it's been About two days now. So anyways, so if I
were to click that, you can see it goes to
beat taste by gratuitous. I'll just go to my
profile just to give you an example of
what it looks like. So again, you know, I don't have tons of listeners
and stuff like that. I'm more of just the
beat making educator and I really like to make music. But again, if you want to
really promote yourself, It's a lot of work and
you've always got to send traffic to these websites care. So as you can see, there is
the release rate there and it also said the latest release. So this is everything
that you saw that we did. We uploaded them all. I will go to Apple Music. So again, latest release, we click into it. This
is it right here. So again, depending
on your genre, what you're really
trying to push. Because I really don't
think this is like a rap hip hop beat tape. But anyway, so
there you guys go. So I walked you
through how to get your music on the
streaming platforms, which is pretty straightforward
now that you know, and I use distro kid to
do that, really easy. And again, you guys can
go online and compare what online distribution
you should select. But I will just say I have had a really good experience
with distro kid. They usually seem to be on the bleeding edge of technology. So in other words,
they're usually one of the first to adopt new things, which is really,
really powerful, but you can always do
your own research. So I use district kid
uploaded the beats or the songs I shared with you how it looks on
things like Spotify, on things like Apple Music. Again, just make sure
your artwork is there. And so that's it. If you have any questions, you feel free to always
reach out to me. But the biggest thing is make sure that you've
mastered your music. Make sure you've
got your artwork, make sure you've got
your track list. And then it's all about
marketing and pushing yourself. If you're trying
to make it as a, as an artist or as a music
producer in this industry. So I hope you
enjoyed the course. Again, always feel free to
reach out or if you would like me to cover a different
course or a different topic, I'm just an e-mail away. My name is Riley
weather and my artist and producer named
his gratuitous. Hopefully I'll talk to you
in another course of mine.
Riley Weller, FL Studio Trainer
