The Internet itself has to be where music can be discovered, reviewed discussion, shopping together, then. Musicians know this and go online to upload their music and become a part of the vast world process Music Machine. Are on the Web, at any age, any experience level - musically and computer expert. Young musicians to begin to learn where it is seasoned only turn on the computer, the vast majority can do on a computerwith all the rest are in progress in their lives.
The Web also allows musicians access to music knowledge. The artists come in difficult terms and expressions that do not understand. Compiled in the following mini glossary are digital music business, organizations, record biz lingo, computer terms and basic need to know info. I hope that something is listed to help you navigate a little 'music on-line and so you know, this is a glossaryExcerpt from a large list of Artistopia found.
A & R - artists and repertoire, also known as a talent scout: Select a record company liaison officers whose duties may include research, and the artist of music, bands and / or develop a songwriter.
Affiliate Program - one, to earn income by linking your site to another Web site, created by the actions of visitors.
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, which licenses and distributes royalties to members isworks protected by copyright.
Bandwidth - has nothing to do with the size of a band, but is a measure of the amount of information (data) that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. The bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second.
Bit rate - The number of kilobits per second of data in audio files. The bit rate you choose when you create an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting MP3. The most common bit rate is 320 kbit / s and higherthe bit rate, plus the encoding is the original source of the music.
Blanket License - allows the user to do one or all, some or all of the songs on the ASCAP repertory. What is the license warm and welcoming.
Business Manager - an artist or band manager, who specializes in financial matters, including planning, investment, income, taxes, decisions and contracts.
Buzz - people talking about a new artist, band, song or album to create intense emotionsand / or items.
Clause - a rotund man with a red dress and Claus: In a recording contract, there may be some restrictions, specifications or changes that defined the end result of this agreement.
Concert Promoter - with functions including ticketing, public relations, marketing and booking of this agency or agent responsible for promoting events together.
Content - the search engine page rank and happy in the results, enough well-written textAlign with the keywords, the site and regularly update a theme is the webmaster's Steak and potatoes.
Cookies - no, not chocolate chip, but a piece of software that logs information about your visit to a Web site, the information continues until the server requires it.
Copyright - a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information, in our case artistic qualities, the songs and sound recordings.
Derivative Work "- a new facility or on the basisfrom one or more previous work.
Digital Licensing - the use of copyrighted musical compositions, via download, streaming on-demand, download limited use and burning of CDs.
Distributor - the agency or his representative, that is, selling and transporting of music (records, CDs take) on the market or, in essence, a product to the consumer.
Domain name - a sign on the Internet, is a unique name that identifies an Internet site.
DRM --Digital Rights Management is a technology, a piece of digital content such as music, videos, or the protection of text files.
Encryption - the conversion of audio or a compressed format like MP3 or WMA.
Granting exclusive rights - copyright, the privileges that only the owner of a copyright in relation to the work protected by copyright.
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) - a file format for compressing audio data, which is not to remove the information fromAudio streams as MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis.
Grammy Awards - an awards ceremony for all genres, presented by The Recording Academy for outstanding achievements in the music industry: a voice of gold for your fireplace.
Groupie - what is the point that an act again without groupies? Too excited to provide fans with much love.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language, programming language for the World Wide Web A browser interprets the code written, and displays it on a websiteand websites. Some basic knowledge of HTML can help in some pages.
Hook - a pirate, a musical phrase, a passage, an 'idea - something (catchy and / or repetitive), which makes the song stand out and be more appealing and remembered.
Hype - sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or a product.
India - an independent artist or group that needs to be done to-all-it-yourself and / or are not affiliated with a major label.
- Usually a student workto a record in a non-or low-paying position, more than a training course to learn the ropes and experience of corporate earnings.
Internet Service Provider (ISP) - How and who you connect your computer or network on the Internet, dialup, DSL, cable, T1 or T3.
Master Recording License - refers to the inclusion of a performance itself, which are usually controlled by the record.
Mastering - the final stage and the preparation of a stroke of weapons of mass destructionFor the perfect reproduction, and the consistency of audio levels and quality.
Licensed mechanics - the use of copyrighted musical compositions for use on CDs, cassettes, vinyl records.
Contracts Music - various bits of paper in the world of music has always used to read the fine print, many contracts - recording, management, finders fee, contracts for general release. When contracts are - time for an entertainment lawyer.
MusicIndustry - all domains in context and in relation to the business of music from four major labels: Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI.
Music Publisher - offers services such as marketing, pitching and promote the works of songwriters writing. Of commercial exploitation of music and song catalogs.
Press Kit - also known as a media kit, a set of pre-promotional materials for an artist or band for distribution, including the songSamples, bio, historical information, photos and contact information.
Producer duties - include: monitoring of the recording session, brought the artist (s), training, organization, planning of production resources and budgets, and monitor the process of recording, mixing and mastering.
Publication fees - the income that pays the writer a song.
RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America, the organization that represents the interests of record companies andUnited States.
Ripping - means taking a CD and WAV audio recording to a computer in an uncompressed format (). Extracting digital audio from one medium to hard disk.
Road - the road crew that travels with a band on tour. These hard-working people to do everything, but the performance, technical, not the set and removal, security, bodyguards, pyrotechnics and lighting.
Sampling rate - the number of samples per second when digitizing sound grip. TheThe higher the number, the better the quality of digital reproduction.
Sound Exchange - an independent non-profit organization that collects and distributes digital rights performance performance royalty for artists and record labels when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable, satellite TV, music, internet and radio satellite.
Sound recording - the author of the recording itself (which you can hear the entire production), in contrast withCopyright of the songs (words and music by the songwriter or publisher) is in possession.
Synchronization license - also known as "sync" license allows the user to play music "associated" or "time in conjunction with the visual image, film, video, advertising activities - from the copyright owner music.
Talent Agent - Booking Agent or the representative of the Music Artist (s) to set the live performances.
Vanity Label - aCelebrity recording artist is given a label in the label, and runs under the umbrella of the mother brand.
