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Submit your music to Magnatune
Magnatune accepts submissions of music for possible inclusion on our site. You can submit via Internet (ftp or email) or Postal Mail. Submissions are only accepted by musicians or their management. Read this if you want to recommend someone. Look at the contract terms before you submit. Only send us your music if you are willing to sign the agreement if we accept you. |
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Internet FTP Uploads
- Upload MP3s to ftp://ftp.magnatune.com/incoming/.
- Please send us at least 40 minutes of music (entire albums are best). The more music you send us, the more likely we are to accept you. We prefer 128k MP3s or better.
- Please put your band name in the file names you upload.
- After uploading, email us with your band name on the subject line and the song names in the message body. Include a telephone number.
- Sadly, for about 20% of the music that's submitted that we really like, we can't determine who submitted it or can't reach them, and thus can't sign them up. Help us avoid this problem!
- Don't worry, the FTP upload directory is write-only: no-one else will be able to download your submissions.
- Only complete albums (40 minutes or more) will be listened to. Do not send singles, EPs, or short demo CDs.
- Remove any shrinkwrap.
- Please write your contact info on a piece of paper and include it in the CD jewel case, or scotch tape it or wrapped around the jewel box with a rubber band. Do *NOT* write on the artwork itself because need to scan it if we accept your submission. Be sure to include your email address and telephone number.
- It always helps to mention that you know what Magnatune is about on the piece of paper with your submission, so that we know you'll be interested in us if we accept you (yes, many people send us CDs without ever visiting Magnatune's web site).
- If you include any printed material with your submission, it's even nicer if you fold the papers and use a rubber band to connect them to the CD. That's what we do with every submission: you'll save us time and help ensure that your printed materials remain attached to your music.
- Send CDs to: Magnatune Recordings (attn: submissions), 2070 Allston Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94704 USA.
- Send us an email with your band name on the subject line and the filenames of the mp3s in the body.
- Whenever possible, include links to each song or to a playlist file or web site that makes listening easy (for example, mp3.com, IUMA or your MP3s web page).
- We get over a hundred submissions per week: please make our job easier and point us directly to where we can hear your music.
- We listen to every single submission.
- Because of the volume of submissions we receive, we only reply to the bands we want to sign up.
- We sometimes get as much as a month behind in listening to submissions, so please be patient.
