web pages for your music

I personally would go with MySpace. There is a special option for Musicians and it's a great way to freely allow people to stream your music.

maybe ive got this in the wrong catogory.sorry guys.ill try and move it later if i get a chance

I can't stand myspace and I have a soundclick acct but I have stopped using it because in the last year it has gone horribly bad.  the advertising they allow is not "family friendly" and most of them now have popups that override the browser popup blocker AND you can't close them.  those practices are completely out of line, IMO and I am not using them any more.

I use soundcloud.com for some stuff for now, but it has a limitation of how much you can upload and I'm worried about that.  some folks use reverbnation or mixposure.  I'm not fond of reverbnations interface, but I have yet to look into mixposure, but it looks pretty good.

most of my stuff now is done completely on my own website, however.  I pay $6/month for a web hosting server and that includes 2 registered domains and several subdomains, plus email accounts, and lots of extra stuff.  if you're interested in this, please consider using my affiliate link.  http://www.1and1.com/?affiliate_id=267772

I post my music on my website using a website builder called Web Easy Professional which I think was ~$50.  I also use a music player called CoffeeCup which was another $30, IIRC.

however the oneandone web server does have some limited web building tools and even some dynamic (flash) web building tools.  you're limited on how many pages you can build with their software unless you upgrade, but I used their tools for a couple of years before I decided to branch out and use the web easy and coffee cup route.
 
click on my beaglesound link in my sig to see what I have done with those tools.

i checked out both your websites and am impressed with both very much.matthew love your hip hop stuff..its classic killer stuff man..bragle love the look of your page.very proffessional looking and worth every penny.been awhile since i senn your site..looks more improved and better now..i was reallt amazed.funny how we communicate in here and talk music alot and recording with sonar but we dont get personal like we do when we hear eachothers grooves..i wanna say im reallimpressed wioth both of yours.i like the look of beagles better.but i do like the menu in amathews too.

Thanks Charlie, I always appreciate the listen, and the compliments.  I'm looking forward to checking out some of your stuff when it comes up.

Soundclick and Bandcamp are two great ways to get your music up online. That along with a tumbler/wordpress with your own domain would be great!

All the sites above are music hosting sites and they are good depending on what your goal is, but often limited in what you can do with them.

If you want a private site you need to get some software to build a site (under $50 for the cheaper ones like I use.....WEB PRO)

then you find a hosting site like Go Daddy where you can choose your domain name and buy the hosting space on their servers.

You upload to them and waaaa laaaa, you have a web site. You can customize it to your liking. I use my site as the launching pad to my other music sites... not all of them , and I can easily post new info that I feel is useful to people that record music.

For some reason, I can't browse Myspace on my internet PC (Pentium 4 and 2GB RAM). They changed the layout a good while back and it all takes too long for me. I usually just move on in the huff eventually...lol

Do any other have this problem with Myspace being slow and glitchy?

I use MySpace, OurStage, Last.fm, YouTube, and even Facebook (With the reverbnation plug-in)

Kev999

Some website designers seem to assume that all end users have up-to-date web browsers.  You could try updating Internet Explorer.  Better still, install Firefox.

Hi Kev

Unfortunately, I'm already using Firefox (latest version). Looks like I'm done for...lol. I could try Google Chrome I guess.


Stewart