TuneCore delivers your music to the Amazon MP3 music store, which sells music only as permanent digital downloads through the Web (no streaming is offered other than 30-second sample streams for each song). IMPORTANT: There is no physical distribution available through Amazon MP3. Your fans will be able to purchase songs individually or entire albums digitally as downloads to their computers and/or portable devices.

When an individual song or album sells from Amazon MP3, you get a fixed "pay rate" (for more information about the Fixed Pay Rate, click here: Permanent Download model).

Real Networks has a digital music service called Rhapsody which lets customers buy permanent digital downloads as well as stream digital music directly from their site to a computer and, if customers choose to use Rhapsody's "To Go" program, on selected portable devices. For help with the Rhapsody service, we suggest you use Rhapsody Support. RealPlayer Music Store (http://musicstore.real.com) sells music only as permanent digital downloads that the customer owns and uses.

Napster lets customers listen to an unlimited number of full-length songs while they are connected to the Internet and download an unlimited number of high quality music files to their PC. They can listen to these downloaded songs online or offline and keep the music they download for as long as they want to be a "Member." Napster subscribers can access music in two ways: as "Members" and "To Go Members.

IMPORTANT: As of Tuesday, July 24, 2007, MusicNet (currently renaming itself to "MediaNet") no longer accepts submissions. Although TuneCore has successfully delivered music to MusicNet and its partner stores for many months, MusicNet has informed us that it is no longer accepting any submissions. TuneCore is continuing its partnership with MusicNet in the hopes that in the future we can begin redelivery.

eMusic is a service that lets people download music (no streaming is offered) on a pre-buy model. eMusic's customers sign up at one of three different pre-buy rates which sets how many songs they can download each month. eMusic currently offers: IMPORTANT: Anyone can sign up for eMusic and get 25 free downloads. If a customer downloads your music as one or more of these 25 free downloads, you will not get any payment for them--it's considered promotional. This is an eMusic policy.

Ringtones: Your fans visit the GroupieTunes site and purchase a 30 second portion (or less) of your music to hear over their phone when it rings (if the ring lasts longer than 30 seconds, the ringtone loops). Downloads to Computer: Your fans visit the GroupieTunes or Music.com site (more coming soon) and purchase an entire song as a digital download to your computer, the same way most other digital delivery stores sell music.

iTunes Europe, selling music and music videos only in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland (Republic), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland IMPORTANT: At TuneCore, some stores are bundled together to save you money and for ease of use. The following iTunes stores are bundled together so that when you purchase one, you get your music delivered to both for the same single-store price: iTunes U.K.

Once a song is approved it is available for sale. Fans can listen to the full song 128kbs song for free, and then purchase the 192kbs MP3. You can track sales and many other song stats in your account profile.

IMPORTANT: Sony Connect announced that they will be closing their digital music store at a yet to be determined date in 2008 and that as of September 1, 2007 they will no longer be taking submissions. Sony will continue to produce royalty reports and pay the regular, agreed-upon pay rate (see below) for all sales, past, present and future.

Yes! We have incorporated a FULLY AUTOMATED process which allows, Publishers, Musicians, Artists, Realtors, FSBO's, and anyone with PDF or MP3 Products. Simply choose the Cubby + Digital Membership. Just click on the "Open a store" link at the top of this page to begin.

They can carry the music or other audio material from an MP3. You do this by playing the MP3 on your computer and recording to MD through the computer's headphone jack, connected as in the previous question.

MP3 is the abbreviation for MPeG1 Audio Layer 3 - where MPeG comes from MovingPicturesExperts Group which is a standard to compress movie data. MP3 audio compression enables users to lower the size of an audio file by on twelth of the original size - in acceptable (near CD) quality. One minute of MP3 compressed music takes up around one Mb of storage space (without compression one minute of music takes up to 30 Mb!). The descendant format to MP3 is AAC - see below for details.

Files such as MP3 or WAV cannot be imported into the MUSIC PLAYER software. The MUSIC PLAYER software is only compatible with these discs.

The Top Celtic MP3 Music Downloads is a list of the most-searched for Celtic bands online. The Celtic Music News website offers the complete Top 40 chart of Celtic Music searches.

Absolutely not. MP3, also known as MPEG layer 3, is todays advanced technology of being able to reduce the size of audio files using a patented compression method. The basic technique to achieve this is to make use of the masking effect and the psychoacoustics of the human ear. Experts were not able to tell the difference between a CD and an MP3 file compressed at 256 kbits/s.

The MP3 Player is located at the bottom of the menu on the upper left side on some pages. You can advance to the next song or stop the music entirely. The four songs loaded on the player are: This Universe by Singh Kaur, Illumination by Thaddeus, Be Still Thy Soul by Anael (from Spiritual Beings CD), and Sentient Beings by Buddha Spirit.

We don't recommend compressed formats like mp3 for your Holosync/Autofonix soundtracks. Compression can diminish the effectiveness of some binaural beat technologies like Holosync. You can copy your Holosync/Autofonix soundtracks to your iPod or other media device using the following audio file formats without losing effectiveness: Note that the above list includes commonly used lossless or uncompressed file formats. Your media player may support other formats not listed.

Send us your music on CD or DVD along with your productiontrax.com username and contact information. We’ll convert and upload the tracks for you at no charge.

Like everything else, there are a number of steps involved. First of all, you have to decompress the MP3 files into .wav files.

Our reviewers always play CDs several times when reviewing; using MP3s would mean they can only review using a PC, not their car or home stereo. Not only is this very inconvenient, but it would also delay the review process unnecessarily. We normally review all aspects of an album, including sound quality (often of inferior quality if a low sample rate is used in an MP3) and artwork (not available when reviewing MP3s). DPRP therefore only reviews albums in their commercially available format.

I would really like to have sound clips of every artist I feature on these pages too, but the problem is that it isn't legal (and even if the risk of getting caught is slim, I don't want risk getting in trouble). For the sound clips you'll find here, I have full permission from the original artist/writer, who also holds all the rights to the song.

If you like the music of the Three Lights so much, then go out and buy their CDs. Please don't ask me to post MP3s, because you will most likely succeed only in annoying me. There are not MP3s on this site, there will not be MP3s on this site, and that's that.

No. Our stock music library contains MP3 files as they are by far the most popular way to distribute audio files over the Internet. Other file formats available on request are: .wav, .aif, .wma, .ape, .ogg and .rm. We can also provide music on DAT, DVD and virtually any other format you wish. Contact us to discuss your requirements. Please note: all loops are provided for download as uncompressed WAV files, and of course you can purchase Audio CDs and CD-ROMs, (which contain .

With our standard service, the files delivered by MusicRip are compatible with all music players. Once your music is on your computer and imported into your music management software (e.g., iTunes, Musicmatch), just follow the instructions that came with your player.

We recommend you try one or more of the free downloads BEFORE ordering any of the downloads which are likely to be more and bigger in file size so you are completely comfortable with the procedures involved.

Yes - But remember you have to keep them for personal use. Distributing or selling copyrighted music without the artist's permission is illegal. Check out our list of Rippers for more information about making your own MP3's.

MP3 music can be played on many software and hardware players. Some new inexpensive MP3 hardware players are quite inexpensive, very small and, having no moving parts, are virtually immune to shock. Other CD players can play regular Audio CDs as well MP3 music from your custom CD.