Indaba Music Adds On-Demand CD Production, Offers Hypebot Readers Free Trial Of Service
Online collaboration community Indaba Music now provides its users with on-demand and personalized CD production services. In partnering with CustomCD, the company will expand its growing collection of third party applications, information resources and lifestyle benefits.
The pricing that Indaba Music is offering with this service: they charge $5.50 per disc and the user keeps 100% of the sales. These CDs will be sold through the users direct-to-fan store. This provides musicians with an important alternative to having to speculate on and invest in bulk CD production orders; it also helps them avoid the accumulation of unused inventory.
Indaba Music is striving to enable musicians to manage more of their careers from a single destination. If any Hypebot readers would like to try out Indaba Music—they have given us 50 promo codes—when you sign up and create a Pro account, type in hypebot and you will be granted a free one month trial.
Wow, Indaba is the greatest! This site is blowing up!
A while ago, Microsoft has shown with their CD-ROM image file (*.iso) download of the Windows XP ServicePack 3 CD that the way to go to merge download and physical distribution channels is the on-demand download of CD burning image files, formats such as *.iso
That way, the music can be easily downloaded and archived, users can manufacture their own CDs if they wish and put them in jewelcases, and users can enjoy the full sound quality with a download package – which is impossible with compressed and lossy mp3 downloads.
All there needs to be developed and spread is a common file format for CD artwork so customers can use their own printers to print the artwork for the CDs.
At best, the music player software reading the *.iso files should also be able to display the artwork file, too.
This would be a great way to get back to the bundling of tracks which was broken up by computer and internet companies such as Apple, Amazon and Google/Youtube eating into the market share of the labels by offering all songs individually.
Until then, CD on-demand is the big thing because lossy mp3s are outdated. And flash video is just as lossy, despite being the format of choice of the porn industry, which is capable of deciding a format war, as happened in the 1980s.