Your Hi-Fi Sound

Part Two of Eldino’s Come aprire una netlabel covers the techincal aspects of operating a netlabell from web design, audio, graphics and creatività a 360 gradi that I take to mean being well rounded, a Renassiance man who can handle the techincial side as well as the aesthetic side. (You can read Part One of my “translation” at Getting Ready To Drown.)

  1. Make your website usable, i.e. a little mouse clicks as possible to download the mp3 and artwork. Eldino brings two netlables to task for not being user-friendly. A no-brainer, no? I’ll definitely keep this in mind that the netlabel website should be programmed for anyone over 50 can use it. (No offense to those of you over 50 who are tech-savy.)
  2. Decide upon a Content Mangement System (CMS). It appears that Eldino does not recommend using a blog platform like Blogger or Wordpress due to the fact that the history of releases is hidden. One way around this that pops into my mind is to create pages for Releases and Artists so that there is one-stop shop for listeners.
  3. Next, Eldino moves onto covers which also happens to be my Achilles’ Heel. He has noted three different styles: Consistent Covers, Inconsistent Covers and No Covers. Well, No Covers is not an option for me as I find it disconcerting that release doesn’t have a cover. I would really like to have Consistent Covers, but I believe I might need to find a graphic artist to help out is this area.
  4. What type of audio format will you distribute in? Eldino’s Perché la musica libera dovrebbe preferire l’mp3 ad altri formati audio covers this, but once again it is in Italian. This question is one that will take much more study to determine how I will proceed.
  5. At the end of the technical section, Eldino writes a good summation of a go/no go decision for a prospective netlabel curator.

    I conclude paragraph with the sottolinearvi, even if it did not understand that open and manage a netlabel need of considerable creativity, open-mindedness and ideas. It is not something that is based on formulas or principles, but it’s something that evolves by means of skill to give / receive / reprocess stimuli of those driving.I f you feel that you have everything and an omnivorous interest to everything around you, probably your netlabel is ready to 50%, but if it does not possess these characteristics, my invitation is to devote your time to another.

  6. Time is similar to the Planning item from yesterday’s post. A netlabel, in order to be successfull takes a lot of time: you need time for your website, time to promote your netlable, time to communicate with artists, time to listen to music, and time to publish releases. Eldino recommends at least 1 hour per day in the beginning, though I wonder if 7 hours is a bit on the low side and just to be clear, this is the area that scares me the most.
  7. Eldino also recommends that a netlabel curator become knowledgeable of the copyright aspects of netaudio. Obviously he recommends looking at Creative Commons.

Next up, Part Three of Eldino’s Come aprire una netlabel.

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