Newcomers releasing music: Bandcamp? YouTube? Soundcloud?

seems some people on reddit are saying you can upload your music to youtube as you would anything else and if it is tagged appropriately is can show up in Youtube Music, but i guess the sound quality can take a hit because its compressed like any other video would be. could be worth a shot just to see if its up to your standard

people chatting about it in here with some recent response from a couple months ago

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So I do need a distributor for YT Music. That’s a bummer. I had read that somewhere but hoped I was mistaken.

Yeah I saw that too. I’m a stickler for quality so that makes regular uploads a possible no go.

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With most people listening via ear pods, I wouldn’t worry too much about compression. Just post a link to the high quality versions underneath the video. Pristine quality is not what people are listening music for on the regular Youtube anyway.

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Hi, I have a question. If I upload an ‘album’ to bandcamp, can I stil offering it to a label and if chance involved, the album be released by the label, even if I posted it already in bandcamp?

If you are in the lucky situation that a label actually wants to publish your music, just don’t tell them about Bandcamp and you should be fine. I mean, if you have thousands of sales there, it might be something different. But without any advertisement or a large following, nobody will notice your music there anyway :smiley:

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No, no sales and not a lot of listenings :sweat_smile:, but I’m sure de label would have a Bandcamp page… Just asking cause I don’t know if it could stop any label release…From me, i just want to put music outside my computer or my soundcloud, where not much people are listening…