Originally Posted by bennash
if you pay on promotion , You'll get listeners . Money stops , so does the listens. Money to be made 0 , unless your the big boys. Basically a expensive hobby , like 70k bass boats . or over priced homes with a 4k a month mortgages . .

I got lost beyond what is quoted.

I pay Distrokid 20 bucks a year and get to upload as many songs as I want which they send out to the various outlets and streaming services.
The photo of the song-art in a cassette case is just something that they throw in for fun.
On the last song that I uploaded they fabricated an advertisement inside a subway car, for fun, at no charge.

For me, it's a hobby, but with what I have been able to learn about sound engineering and Distrokid...it is not an expensive one.
Now AI will allow me to work on lyrics at 10 bucks a month for more capacity than I will probably use.
I'm looking at adding a lap steel VST for about $150. That is a major expense in my music production world.

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