Where do you Indies upload your music?

[cakeshoppe]

I (and most of the bands I know) use bandcamp. Though it doesn't really strike me as a place to generate traffic, because it has very little in terms of social-networking type features. Just a website for your more networking-friendly websites to point to.

[Mighty_Zoltan]

Originally Posted by jnorman

iTunes, which requires a commercial release of a CD with a bar-code

Not if you use tunecore or something similar. You just upload you files and artwork and choose the stores that you want to sell your music on. Itunes Amazon etc. It's like $20 to get it on Itunes.

Bandcamp is great too!

[engineroom]

Bandcamp

You name your price (or choose the 'customer can name theirs' option) and they offer a wide range of quality audio file types and sizes (iirc up to 320 for mp3).

You can just stream the album, or offer single/album downloads.

I for one am glad there is no networking option, use the existing Facebook system and link the two. It is very spartan with just a banner image, and the audio files. Love it.

Also, I have used reverb nation but was not as impressed with it as bandcamp.

[Bob Wazoo]

We took advantage of a deal thru Discmakers and CD Baby. We had our CD's manufactured by them. For an extra $50 we could register it with a number of providers including itunes, facebook, amazon, and a bunch of others. All the revenue is kept in an account w/ CD baby. We can access the funds when we want or just store it. It hasn't generated a ton of new money, but the system works pretty good. We even receive a tiny bit of money when someone streams our music from certain sites.
Bob
Suffolk & Rain

[theblue1]

I like Bandcamp. It's straightforward, they give you a good cut, considerably better than iTunes -- but no reason you can't do both. Let people who can't wean themselves from iTunes buy your music there but drive traffic you generate to your BC site and get a better cut. (For a while I was keeping some stuff at Reverbnation because up 'til a year or so ago, they streamed whatever you put up, rather than 'dumbing down' streams to the rather dull sounding 128's we've become overfamiliar with over the years. RN has some interesting things going on, it's worth checking out.)

As noted, Tunecore, Reverbnation, CDBaby, Discmakers, and others offer services for those putting their music on iTunes, Amazon, subscription, etc. It seems to generally run around $40-$50 depending on various options (and some charge a yearly rate while others charge a one-time rate with a small maintenance fee -- so do read the fine print).