Cool! I failed to mention the most important way to share your music, but we're all doing it already. This is just an additional level if you're not there yet:
1. Register a domain name that is easy to spell out and remember. My nickname 'randulo' wasn't common, so randulo.com was easy. But how about ambiguities like Bill Evans? I'm going to guess that may be BillEvansSax.com...
Yep. How about that, good guess.
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Although Bill needs a little tech help on the site because "not secure" will inhibit certain browsers from seeing the site. Get the TLS certificate installed, brother Bill.
These are the tools of distribution today.
For the past few weeks, they gave become very important. Digital media carries no deadly biological virus to your door. Our current situation will push us further into this revolution whether we/you like it or not. The larger challenge is finding your audience and reaching them. Will the pay to download your recordings? You can package notes and graphics with these is you wish. Publishing has never been easier.
2. Find a way to host your content. Free stuff is always limited, but if you can live with those limits, sign up and
point your domain to that. My domain has been pointed at various different areas, such as my fiction and non-fiction writing, my CD, now online with free downloads and a tip jar, and currently to my Soundcloud collection of 332 tunes, interviews and embarrassing alto practice recordings.
3. The hardest part: getting people to visit your content pages. Are you like Bill Evans? He has links to all the main social sites. This part, the marketing of your content is possibly the hardest part, made harder by the containment we are obliged to live with for now and the foreseeable future.
Personally, even if I thought people would pay for my music, I'm no longer trying to sell it. oh, it's out there in many forms on many sites, but I have no expectations.
In conclusion, no more CDs, pressed or bought for us.