General Music Chat

I was looking around at the hypebot website and saw an ad for submithub, no it was not an ad, but somebody plugging it, went there this morning the web page loaded fine, I took them up on their free offer of 2 free credits, enough to submit a couple tunes to your favorite music blog site, with absolutely no guarantee they will even give it a 20 second listen, but what the heck it was free?.. LOL.. so I continued on and got to the point of putting a link URL to a soundcloud stream and suddenly these warnings start popping up saying, "you must hurry! we are altering the software at 4 minutes after the hour or something like that.. had 6 or so warning "banners" popping up, and took for ever to load the wheel kept spinning incircles waiting then it supposedly works, gives me another page showing the 2 music blogs sites accepted tunes with gree checkmatks, but next thing I know is the website now loads up but with a complete blank white page???.. was my stuff so bad, they inserted some code on me, like saying please don't come back, you ain't welcome here? or is the site down because the warning about software upgrade that might have actually happened destroyed the site?.. maybe they need to work some bugs out see if it loads for you jook? I've tried 8 or 10 tinmes since this morning.. ain't working for me now.. t

if only they had a 45 dollar a month DSL plan here in the boondocks, I would grabit.. capitalism at it's best, not a high enough profit margin for them to string along a DSL line to us backwards hillbillies running around in overalls and bare feet with corn cob pipes.. .. satellite they say buffers too much and I ain't paying 100 bucks a month for satellite that is basically usesless if I ever want to become an aged "gamer" and I don't want to stay up from 2 AM to 8 AM to make use of the free bandwidth allowance.. they got ya comin' or a goin' those damned capitalists

Jook, you should join tapeheads and plug your music. Those guys are old and love stuff that sounds like old vinyl.

music site blogs, college radio stations, recording studios, producers, publishers, but now that I found this
http://www.submithub.com

might cut back a lot on the mailing out, finding out that is old hat, and into the trash w/o opening the pkg..

Yeah, I tried that with blogger submissions (no mailed CDs, though, just MP3 attachments, soundcloud or other site links to songs). Is that where you're sending your 500 CDs? Once you narrow down the bloggers who deal with your type of music, it shouldn't be that many that want physical copies.
As to your 'spinning circle' issue - when that happens, shut it down and try again. the 'warnings' you were getting sound like a bot-spam that tries to get you to click on it to remove a virus but in fact is trying to infect your computer.
Dial-up is just no way to try to upload music - too many glitches even when you can wait for the slow upload. Burn your songs to a CD, then go to the local library and upload from there.

Personally I would only mail CDs to personal friends or someone who specifically requested/paid for one. Unsolicited CDs to promoters and labels tend to be used as target practice at the range without ever being opened. $500 x $7ea = $3500 for production, duplication, packaging, mailing. Not pocket change and very likely $$$ down the rathole and the fastest way to go broke.

For packaging and mailing I like the "cereal box" with room for liner notes inside. This is what Tommy Emmanuel uses as packaging and it looks good and mails easily.
http://www.amazon.com/Center-Stage-Tomm ... BVJ1H8WM81

Sharing music on the net is much more efficient, and if cable/DSL is not available in your area, cell phone hot spot data plans are affordable and fast enough for music and photos now. I pay $30/mo for unlimited phone/data with Virgin mobile. Boost is similarly priced but even Verizon is reasonable compared to a land line with dial up internet $$.
http://broadbandnow.com/Missouri/Half-Way
Time to rethink all this Dayne.

Yes, and mailing to radio stations (unless they have specifically requested a copy) is the same waste of a CD and money.