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The web has verified to be exactly where music may be found, reviewed, talked about, shared, and obtained. Musicians know this and get online to upload their songs and grow to be a component of the world wide new music machine approach. They come online at each and every age, at every knowledge degree - musically and pc savvy. From children beginning out to seasoned musicians just understanding exactly where the pc on switch is, the workings of being on a personal computer could be mind-boggling with almost everything else they've got heading on inside their lives.

The net also allows musicians entry to music knowledge. Artists will come across difficult terminology and phrases they usually do not comprehend. Compiled within the adhering to mini glossary are songs business, electronic, organizations, document biz lingo, computer terms and simple need-to-know info. Ideally, a thing outlined below can help you navigate audio online a bit less complicated, and so that you know, this glossary is undoubtedly an excerpt of an intensive checklist found on Artistopia.

A&R - Artist and Repertoire, aka talent scouts: a file company liaison whose duties may include to find, select and develop the music artist, band and/or songwriter.

Affiliate Program - a way to earn income by linking your Internet site to another site, depending within the action taken by the visitor.

ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers which licenses and distributes royalties to it's members' copyrighted works.

Bandwidth - has nothing to do with the size of a band but is a measure of the amount of information (data) that may be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second.

Bitrate - The number of kilobits per second of data in your audio file. The bitrate you choose when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality in the resulting MP3. The highest commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps and the higher the bitrate, the closer the encoding is to the original source of new music.

Blanket License - makes it possible for the user to perform any or all, in element or all, of the songs in the ASCAP repertory. What a warm and cozy license.

Enterprise Manager - an artist or band manager that specializes in the financial matters, including planning, investing, income, taxes, decisions and contracts.

Buzz - to get people talking about a new artist, band, song or album, creating intense excitement and/or rumors.

Clause - a chubby fellow in a red suit is Claus: in a document contract, there might be certain limitations, specifications, or modifications that stipulate the final outcome of that contract.

Concert Promoter - with duties including ticketing, PR, marketing, and booking, this agency or agent responsibilities are for concert event promotion.

Content - to make the Search Engines happy and have pages rank well in a search result, a good quantity of well written text aligning with the site's keywords and theme updated regularly is a Webmaster's steak and potatoes.

Cookie - no, not chocolate chip, but a piece of software that records data about your visit to a Internet site, then holds the data until the server requests it.

Copyright - a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information, in our case artistic properties, the songs and sound recordings.

Derivative Work - a new work based on or resulting from one or more preceding works.

Electronic Licensing - the use of copyrighted audio compositions including downloads, on demand streaming, limited use downloads and CD burning.

Distributor - the agency or agent that handles the sales and shipment of the songs (records, CDs) to the marketplace or basically, gets the product to the consumers.

Domain Name - a sign post to the Net, it is a unique name that identifies an Net site.

DRM - Electronic Rights Management is a technology that protects a piece of intellectual electronic property such as a new music, video, or text file.

Encoding - the method of converting audio to or from a compressed format like MP3 or WMA.

Exclusive Rights - under copyright law, the privileges that only a copyright owner has with respect to the copyrighted work.

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) - a file format for audio data compression that does not remove information from the audio stream, as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.

Grammy Awards - an award ceremony for all genres presented by the Recording Academy for outstanding achievements while in the recording industry: a gold megaphone for your mantel.

Groupie - what's the point of getting an act without groupies? Overly enthusiastic fans with much love to offer.

HTML - HyperText Markup Language, programming language for the entire world extensive internet. A world wide web browser interprets the code written and displays it for a world wide web page and web sites. Some very fundamental expertise of HTML may assist on some sites.

Hook - a pirate: a songs phrase, a passage, an idea - something (catchy and/or repetitive) that makes the song stand out and be more appealing and remembered.

Hype - sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or product.

Indie - an independent artist or band that desires to do-it-all-themselves and/or not affiliated with a larger report label.

Intern - usually a college student job at a file label in a no or low paying position, more of an apprenticeship understanding the ropes and gaining business knowledge.

Net Service Provider (ISP) - how and who connects your personal computer or network to the world wide web, whether dialup, DSL, Cable, T1 or T3.

Master Recording License - pertains to the recording of a performance itself, which are usually controlled by the file label.

Mastering - the final stage and preparation in a recording before weapons of mass duplication, includes the consistency of audio levels and quality perfecting.

Mechanical License - the use of copyrighted musical compositions for use on CDs, cassettes, report albums.

New music Contracts - all the various bits of paperwork used while in the music organization, always read the "fine print" to the many contracts - recording, management, finders fee, general release contracts. When the contracts come in - time to get an Entertainment Attorney.

Songs Industry - all things pertaining and related to the enterprise of audio, dominated by the Big Four major labels: Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI.

Audio Publisher - provides services such as marketing, pitching and promoting works written by songwriters. Deals with the commercial exploitation of audio catalogs and songs.

Press Kit - aka media kit, a prepackaged set of promotional materials for a music artist or band for distribution including song samples, bio, historical data, photos and contact information.

Producer - duties include: controlling the recording session, guidance in the artist(s), coaching, organizing, scheduling of production resources and budgets, as well as supervising the procedure of recording, mixing and mastering.

Publishing Royalties - income paid to the writer of a song.

RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America, the organization that represents the interests of document labels and producers in the USA.

Ripping - means to take an audio CD and file it to a pc in an uncompressed file format (wav). Electronic audio extraction from one media form to a hard disk.

Roadie - the road crew that travels with a band on tour. These hard working individuals do almost everything but the performance, are technicians, do the set up and take down, security, bodyguards, pyrotechnics, and lighting.

Sampling Rate - the number of samples taken per second when digitizing sound. The higher the number, the better the quality with the electronic reproduction.

SoundExchange - an independent, nonprofit performance rights organization that collects and distributes electronic performance royalties for recording artists and report labels when their sound recordings are performed on electronic cable, satellite TV audio, web and satellite radio.

Sound Recording - the copyright with the recording itself (what you hear, the entire production) as distinguished from the copyright of the song (words and new music owned by the songwriter or publisher).

Synchronization License - aka "synch" license, enables the user to reproduce a musical composition "in connection with" or "in timed relation with" a visual image, motion picture, video, advertising commercial - from the copyright owner with the songs.

Talent Agent - or booking agent, the representative from the new music artist(s) that sets up the live performances.

Vanity Label - a celebrity recording artist is given a label within a label and runs under the umbrella from the parent label. Kboing