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Entries in Download Stores (67)

Bopaboo

Bopaboo was founded as a legal secondary marketplace to enable consumers to have the ability to resale their previously purchased music. With bopaboo, you now can upload and sell your unwanted music and buy your favorite artist music from other consumers just like you.




Openpot

A free platform where musicians can provide their music as free download. For each download released by an user of the site, the artist gets paid by openpot. To distribute your music on openpot.com just register as an artist, upload your tracks, design your profile, set up your individual adjust and start to earn money immediately.




Music Licensing Store

We’ve pre-cleared tens of thousands of great songs from independent artists and bands for use in any production. Whatever the medium, our catalog is the solution.




Passionato

Designed for classical music lovers, Passionato’s main features are: DRM-free recordings, transferable to any portable device and burnable to CD; high audio quality downloads (320kbps DRM-free MP3 and lossless FLAC); access to free software the Passionato Player specifically developed to help organise users’ existing Classical CDs alongside tracks purchased through the Passionato Store; an unprecedented level of recording information which users benefit from when they download a track, work or album, and when they import their own CD libraries to their computers; the ability to search Passionato’s recordings using over 20 fields, including by work, composer, conductor, venue and recording engineer.




GruvMe

GRÜVME is a 99¢ + music, video and multimedia store with no monthly membership fee. Search and browse 30-second music clips and buy your favorite music to burn to CD or transfer to a compatible (certain restrictions may apply on burn or transfers please check owners manual of portable device prior to purchase). GRÜVME currently uses WMA encoding on independent content and DRM encoding from Windows.




indieKazoo

Any independent musician or band, with no web skills at all, can create their own full-service music download store just by following some easy instructions; and most importantly, receive 100% of their sales revenue, and receive it the same day. Unlike the big services, INDIEKAZOO lets musicians set their own prices and/or offer special promotions or features. And most importantly, INDIEKAZOO lets artists receive 100% of their sales revenue, and receive it the same day — or as they like to say, “you can pay for dinner tonight with the sales you made today.”

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Storeblocks

StoreBlocks provides an easy-to-use music store e-commerce solution for every size customer. Set up a customized store for your small business (no matter what size), school, sports team or other group, and earn 10 percent from every download. The StoreBlocks service includes one of the industry’s largest music catalogs, with nearly 3 million tracks (close to 2 million in iPod-compatible MP3 format)

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Textango

Textango, LLC™ is a revolutionary, patent pending mobile billing and music delivery platform. Textango, LLC™ allows anyone, anywhere in the United States to purchase music simply by sending a premium text message with their cell phone. The purchase is billed to the customer’s cell phone bill and the music is downloaded off of the Textango, LLC™ website.

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SongRamp

SongRamp is a music community focused on the creative aspects of music and songwriting. The name implies a place where songs and songwriters can advance based upon their merit. Members can sell CDs and digital downloads at the The SongRamp Store.

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9ViBe

Fast, easy, and fun! Unbiased, unsigned music discovery. At 9ViBe, it’s all about the music… period. Promoting music from unsigned/independent musicians of every genre. They find your fans and validate your songs. Free musician and A&R resource.

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Trackdonalds

Trackdonalds is an online label by Solid Soul Records. They seek to provide a unique platform for established and up and coming producers alike. The label will help artists get more value from the music they create and allow artists to keep half of every purchase. Trackdonalds specializes in Drum and Bass - deep, minimal and soulful stuff. In the Electronic section they serve dutty Breaks and jazzy Electronica. They provide access to crazy underground stuff through secure, legal, high quality downloads. Files come as MP3 with 320kbps on a pay per download basis.

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Bleep

Bleep is an online store that sells high quality, drm-free mp3s from hundreds of independent labels. Bleep tracks are very high quality, encoded with the renowned codec LAME using the ‘—alt-preset standard’ Variable Bit Rate setting. This uses a higher bitrate for encoding loud sections of a track, and a lower bitrate on quieter sections – it is widely acknowledged to give the best sound quality while maintaining manageable file sizes.

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Tunester

Tunester is a Canadian based, music and entertainment networking community; specialized in providing Canadian artists, industry professionals, and fans with a centralized community platform in order to aid in the development of the industry as a whole.

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LAUNCHcast

Yahoo! LAUNCHcast is a streaming music service allowing you to create your own customized radio station tailored to your tastes. Rate artists and albums highly to hear them often and ban the ones you hate! You can also listen to our extensive collection of more than 130 pre-programmed radio stations created by our editorial staff.

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TuneTribe

TuneTribe is a UK-based digital music store with music from small independent record labels to the big majors including lots of DRM-free songs.

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BurnLounge

BurnLounge is a fan-driven download community that allows users to create their own download store. As you sell downloads you earn rewards. BurnLounge provides you with a web page to to advertise your store, connect with friends, recommend music and more. Artists can upload and license music to be used by thefan community.

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Music For Dozens

Music For Dozens provides recordings from diverse bands at the lowest possible prices. Our aim is to help music fans and independent bands find each other. Anyone can sell their recordings; anyone can buy. You can buy high quality mp3s of them with just a couple of clicks. Finally you can order real, legitimate full quality CDs of albums selected by the artists that we will manufacture and ship out to you for just five bucks, shipping included.

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Arkade

Arkade is a download store that lets independent artists upload music and set the price for downloads. Artists receive 100% of the price they set and retain 100% of the rights.


Indiecentric

Indiecentric is an online music store that sells music from independent and emerging artists. No major labels here, only the best new music from the best independent artists. At Indiecentric, you can browse, preview and buy music from thousands of artists.

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Snocap

Snocap is the trusted solution powering the global marketplace for digital media. Through the Snocap Digital Registry, all rights holders (large, medium, and small) can register their content and manage its distribution by placing their Snocap MyStore on any website as well as by selling tracks through a variety of online retailers. Online retailers also gain easy access to content they wish to sell.

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