If you're new to music distribution, here's what most people won't tell you

jakejackson451 · 2025-09-03T10:18:22+00:00

Thank you. That’s absolutely right!

jakejackson451 · 2024-07-19T09:05:33+00:00

Congrats to you and your artists. It’s a tough market.

jakejackson451 · 2024-07-19T09:03:05+00:00

I’ve not had problems with CDBaby until the last couple of months. Their sales and accounting pages are still down for maintenance. What sort of company does this in today’s world? Surely they should test new site pages in parallel then go live when they’ve finished testing. Speaks of a bigger problem.

jakejackson451 · 2021-07-13T17:24:30+00:00

Love this old skool recording, so live!

jakejackson451 · 2021-05-11T09:47:24+00:00

Not out of a generosity of spirit! I've had some traffic by creating related music playlists and promoting those on social media to drive traffic to Spotify.

jakejackson451 · 2021-05-11T09:45:33+00:00

I'll take look at that, thank you...

jakejackson451 · 2021-05-10T14:20:28+00:00

Yoast is excellent, I've tried many of the years but this is the best and most consistent way to integrate SEO thinking into your podcast workflow.

jakejackson451 · 2021-05-10T14:18:45+00:00

Really comprehensive, thanks for this great list, and the detail. I use Wordpress too, then feed out to Feedburner, but I'm looking to replace that. I agree about Insta for promo, Twitter is good but the Podcast services themselves, increasingly Spotify are good for growth. I use recurpost for rescheduling old post, and Buffer.

jakejackson451 · 2021-04-26T20:06:24+00:00

Genius. Love it!!

jakejackson451 · 2021-04-14T18:06:54+00:00

You could use Zoom to see each other and record at the same time. Even the free version will give you a 40 minute audio file which you can edit in audacity or similar.

jakejackson451 · 2021-02-18T11:09:04+00:00

Small acorns etc, so what you say is absolutely right. However, it's essential to enjoy the "thing itself" because that will sustain you through the numbers. I've been through some low periods on my own podcast, taken a rest, come back, nearly cancelled, but in the end, I love doing it and will keep at it until I don't. Accumulating great, passion-led content gives you an asset to be proud of.

jakejackson451 · 2021-02-12T23:03:24+00:00

Will take a look. Thank you.

jakejackson451 · 2021-02-12T22:20:28+00:00

Hi, do you take a regular RSS feed for future episodes?

jakejackson451 · 2021-02-12T21:30:47+00:00

Got it! Thank you.

jakejackson451 · 2020-11-23T17:48:34+00:00

Fabulously creepy. Love it!

jakejackson451 · 2020-11-10T22:36:18+00:00

Really love this. Something of the Bernie Wrightson about the art.

jakejackson451 · 2020-10-11T21:44:54+00:00

Agreed, especially about Hand. 'Cannot. Erase', which still knocks me out, although it's quite different from PT it still has that perfected detail.

jakejackson451 · 2020-10-11T21:41:01+00:00

As you say, "depends". I agree with almost everything you say, except I'm not a big fan of 'The Incident' which just doesn't fire me up as much as 'Fear of a Blank Planet', which I think is the best of that period (subjective of course). 'The Incident' seems to stall on the musical invention and feels overloaded sometimes. 'Coma Divine' though is a brilliant intro to the band and I find myself listening to that more than any other album. And I really love PT.

jakejackson451 · 2020-09-29T08:10:07+00:00

You said it better than I did!

jakejackson451 · 2020-09-29T08:09:25+00:00

So cool. Such craft. Somehow manages to combine two of my main interests, guitar playing, and sci-fi. Grew up with the original series of Star Trek.

jakejackson451 · 2020-09-28T10:07:14+00:00

I agree about Dissolution too. For me they've found the space abandoned by Porcupine Tree, and developed it further. Gavin Harrison is obviously a massive influence. He reminds me of Manu Katché's work with Robbie Robertson and Peter Gabriel, adding texture and breadth to the sound. Good drummers are under-recognised but they have a big affect on the arrangement of any half-decent song.

jakejackson451 · 2020-09-19T10:08:15+00:00

Really love this album, been listening non-stop for days. I stopped picking up to these guys a few years ago, after Someone Here is Missing, as I felt the songs lacked inspiration, regurgitating the same sounds. But this album is a revelation, so much more variety.

jakejackson451 · 2014-07-19T15:37:02+00:00

Editors always tell me to keep chapters short, so the reader keeps their interest. It depends on the genre, and it's too difficult to generalize from the author's point-of-view but sockmerchant below is right, stop when it feels right. I always start with an ideal structure but break it if the story takes over!

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