3 Fun Tools for Sharing Music Online

August 15, 2012{ 19 Comments }

When it comes to sharing your music online these days, you have plenty of options. So many options, in fact, that few musicians can explore them all.

Are you feeling crippled by too many choices? Start by checking out these 3 tools that will help you share your music in interesting ways:

1. Viinyl.com-

Viinyl lets you make customized song-based websites. It’s simple: 1 song, 1 site, 1 URL– a great way to share one song at a time and grow your fanbase.

Here’s a screenshot of Hello Morning’s Viinyl page for their song “The Fear,” featuring elements of their album artwork.

2. Wildfire.fm-

Wildfire helps you spread your music like.. wildfire! Reach new fans on Facebook and Twitter, grow your email list, and share a track with a customized Wildfire page like the one show below.

3. Drinkify.org

Drinkify makes drink recipe suggestions that coincide with the vibe of your music. For instance, “The Chris Robley” is 1 bottle of red wine served at room temperature. What kind of drink are you?

What are your favorite tools for sharing music online? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Chris Robley's Author Bio

http://profile.yahoo.com/UAX76MDX6TCSFFZPMKLPBEOLIE yahoo-UAX76MDX6TCSFFZPMKLPBEOLIE

I use every site I can find. Different songs are popular on different sites. It’s very enlightening.
http://twitter.com/FlyerLizard Flyer Lizard

Sound Cloud of course! http://www.soundcloud.com use it for fans and for inter band music sharing. Love it!
- http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
  
  Yes indeed. And I believe Viinyl and Soundcloud are linked up. AND… so are CD Baby and Soundcloud!
  - peter
    
    Yes, viinyl & Soundcloud work super well together, we use it all the time. As it says in their profile on SoundCloud App section – SoundCloud + Viinyl = A sexy twist on digital music promotion & distribution. It takes us about 30-60secs to make a viiinyl via SoundCloud. here’s the link to their profile: http://soundcloud.com/apps/viinyl
    - http://twitter.com/velcromary Velcro Mary
      
      Something I noticed that might be useful to others out there: if you use linked songs from your SoundCloud account, but you don’t have them downloadable on SoundCloud, you don’t get the option to make them available for an email address or share. In that case, you just have to upload the song to Viinyl directly.
      - armine
        
        That’s absolutely right. (disclosure: I work at viinyl). We also offer a cool and very efficient feature of a download in exchange of a Facebook post or Tweet. We are gearing up to release an enhanced version of viinyl very soon with tons of new features. Stay tuned .
        
        BTW: Chris thank you very much for your post, much appreciated.
      - http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
        
        Happy to share it. Let me know when y’all launch the new version.
http://astrakanproject.com/ Simone Alves

I hadn’t heard about drinkify, quite funny indeed…
- http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
  
  Did you look up what kind of drink you are?
  - http://astrakanproject.com/ Simone Alves
    
    Of course I tried immediately.. Unfortunately, the site could not link to my music ??? It looks like it’s powered by Last.fm, my music is available there for a couple of months, but it looks like I have to do something… any idea about it ?
    - http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
      
      I’m not sure. Do you have photos available on Last.fm? Maybe it needs to pull press photos from somewhere.
      - http://astrakanproject.com/ Simone Alves
        
        I do actually…
      - http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
        
        Hmm. In that case, I throw my hands up. I’ll see if I can write the Drinkify peeps and find out.
Adam

Drinkify looked cool but it only seems to work if it knows of the names you type in… have you tried giving it something obscure? It just crashes…
- http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
  
  I tried a few of my friends (who are locally known, but by no means famous) and it worked for most of them. I’m not sure if they’re pulling their info from Amazon, AMG, MySpace,… but I’ll bet I could find out with a swift Google search, which I will do… now.
  - Adam
    
    Yeah I saw that too… interesting thing is my band had CDBaby distribute to last.fm and I do find my band there. Something else must be missing.
- http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/author-chris-robley Christopher Robley
  
  Oh, there it is: “Powered by Last.fm.”
http://profile.yahoo.com/UAX76MDX6TCSFFZPMKLPBEOLIE yahoo-UAX76MDX6TCSFFZPMKLPBEOLIE

Anyone else having trouble with Wildfire.fm? I am getting caught in a loop and after I upload everything it throws me back to a page that says to sign up. Plus told me the first time I tried my MP3 had to be in a .jpg or .png file. I got in the loop after trying it again. I was only able to upload a photo and no luck since
Nouman Uz Zama

I found a very good site for musicians where they can share music online. Even I upload some of my good work there. Drinkify is new site for me will try surely. Thanks.

Music Promotion for Independent Musicians

3 Fun Tools for Sharing Music Online

1. Viinyl.com-

2. Wildfire.fm-

3. Drinkify.org