Is there a site/service where individuals can sell MP3s?

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Someone here must know the answer to this!

I've just had a telephone enquiry at work* from someone who previously had their music available on mp3.com, but now that service is not available (it seems to be a portal to other large services for record companies to sell stuff via) they want an alternative. Does anyone know of one that we can recommend, that's likely to be trustworthy and around for a while?

What is required is a service that allows individuals, bands or anyone to make tracks available to the public and get paid for them on a per download basis. It seems like such an obvious niche there must be something! Does anyone here use such a service?

*(I work for something called Welsh Music Foundation, a not-for-profit company (government funded) based in Wales (obviously!) who help music business companies, publish a magazine for that prupose et. etc.
Our website is http://www.welshmusicfoundation.com/)

Thanks!!!

― mei (mei), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Vitaminic springs to mind.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Answering a thread with the number of posts on other threads - classic or dud?

― ___ (___), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i am v interested in setting something similar to this up subject to market research. i suppose the main difference being it may be a bit idealistic/unrealistic to expect people to pay per file (mind you Warp's Bleep seems to be doing okay). instead i would encourage free sharing of the artists music via p2p sharing but strongly recommend donating directly to the artists/their management involved via PayPal or similar in order that they can continue recording. Naive possibly but would really like to push that approach - just remember, paying for the artist to continue because their work is important to you rather than paying for each individual artwork in turn (can your conscience resist? ;). small difference perhaps but i see a principles issue that's worth challenging, esp. as it encourages artists to take more responsibility for the presentation and distribution of their work, perhaps cutting out needless middlemen.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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