naxti.blogg.se - Music download sites

The site has sold 4,000 licenses for films to use music from their artists - 7,000 general licenses in 12 years. Their licensing numbers provide a glimpse into their dominance of the indie market. In other words, they champion the indie artist cause. Proceeds are also used to support various open-source music projects.

For $15 a month, you can have unlimited downloads on any number of devices.

Fifty percent of their profits go directly to the musicians, not to any labels, managers, or corporate middlemen.

They are highly selective, only accepting about 3 percent of submissions.

Magnatune does something truly unique: they work directly with indie artists to hand-pick every song they sell and as a rule, do not deal with labels or lawyers.

If Wil Wheaton is in love with it, then you know it's a great find.

If you wish to avoid the corporate vibe of major record labels and commercial radio and want to, as they say, "stick it to the Man," Magnatune should be your one and only home online for music. Even though Mac users cannot enjoy Google Play's efficient platform on their iPhones, they can use the Google Play website on their MacBooks or iMac desktop computers and even upload their entire iTunes library onto Google, up to 20,000 songs.

It is free to use provided you have a Gmail account and are not an owner of an iPhone.

Instead, you download the Google Play app which then taps into Google's storage and automatically updates your device whenever you buy music or adjust your playlists.

Its interface is faster, more intuitive, and listeners who have Android phones do not have to sync their devices with their computers constantly as iTunes users must do.

A Google executive tweeted in late 2012 that Google Play had reached the 500 million mark in user activations through Android.

As iTunes is the flagship music platform for all Apple devices, Google Play has become the default player for all Android devices. The new Google Play's aggressive invasion of Android devices has given iTunes and Amazon a run for their money.