not exactly my space.
Posted on | June 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
It’s been a long, tortuous journey for me to start selling my music online. I’m not going to go into details about why it’s taken me so long, but suffice it to say that recently I got the ability to upload large files to the internet and have been moving forward with this. My ultimate goal is to find an mp3-selling service that will allow me to get my whole mp3 library online. There’s over 100 mp3s of seventy or so songs, not even counting the hundreds of hours of 4-track demos that I’m going to start going through once I have this all figured out.
I still get quite a few hits on my myspace page, and I’ve seen friends with their little SNOCAP players selling mp3s for 99 cents so I figured, OK, let’s start there while waiting for itunes to review and accept my “content provider” application.
Unfortunately it’s not that easy. On the SNOCAP site, it makes it sound very easy.
1. Log in to myspace!
2. Click the “create your store” link!
3. Copy and paste this code!
4. ???
5. Profit!
Unfortunately, there’s no “create your store” link on myspace anywhere. Searching the myspace FAQ for “create store” gives no help and, even more bizarre, searching for SNOCAP reveals no results at all.
So I fired off a letter to customer support at myspace.
Hello, I signed up for a SNOCAP account which a friend of mine is using to sell his mp3s through myspace. On the SNOCAP site, under the “Post to Web” section, it gives the following instructions. But re: #2, I do not see this “create your store” link anywhere. I searched the FAQ for music store and there were no responses. please advise.
This was the response:
Hello,
Thanks for contacting MySpace Music!
We aren’t currently set up to support SnoCap related questions or issues, but if you email snocapsupport@imeem.com you should receive a response from one of their representatives within the next 48 hours.
Let us know when you need us again!
Thank you,
MySpace.com
Music Support
This is bullshit for a lot of reasons. Myspace playing dumb on SNOCAP might have something to do about SNOCAP laying off 60% of its workforce, or being bought out by imeem, and while there’s hints of “if imeem eventually bars sites like MySpace from using Snocap” etc, there’s really no news on what ended up happening, or at least none that I’ve found easily.
But the main thing is that my question obviously is not a SNOCAP question, it’s about another site making a claim about myspace that I am writing myspace to find out whether it is true or not. Whatever, though, myspace being full of shit and not user friendly is nothing new. I’m no closer to selling my mp3s online. And searching google for “sites to sell mp3s online” or “embeddable music stores” doesn’t really help much. Or is everyone just using itunes these days? I know there are sites like soundclick and cdbaby, but what say you, internet?
In the meantime, I’m forwarding my correspondence to imeem & will keep you updated.
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June 1st, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
aw man, i was hoping the title referred to steaming ahead and not frustration ventilation. i know it’s a pain, but i honestly think it’s all about itunes if you’re thinking about selling mp3s.
June 1st, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
it’s gotta be all about itunes. I uploaded my SNOCAP shit and was ready to go. when I applied to itunes it was all “We get hundreds of applications every day, we’re seriously getting through everything as quick as we can.” HINT
October 19th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
It didn’t work for me but it might work for you????
If the “Create Your MySpace Music Store” doesn’t appear on your MySpace profile
MySpace only displays the “Create Your MySpace Music Store” link for unsigned artists. If this link doesn’t show up for you, check the label type you’ve specified in your MySpace profile. Here’s how to change it.
1. Go to http://www.myspace.com/ and log in
2. Click “edit profile” – to the right of your photo
3. Click the top tab that says [Band Details]
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the (Edit) link to the right of “Label Type”
5. Where it says “Type of Record Label”, from the pull-down menu, choose “Unsigned”, then click [Preview]. (You can change it back later, after this link-up is done)
6. Next it will say “Type of Record Label Preview”, click [Submit]
7. Something should pop up and say “Changes will be made within 24 hours”. Click OK to that.
When you return to your profile home, the “Create Your MySpace Music Store” link should appear in the top-left section of the page.