How to Put Music Tracks on My Website to Sell
If you are a recording musician and are looking for a way to make money from your original songs, selling MP3s online is a good way to start. Selling your music on iTunes, CD Baby, or another external retailer is one option, but you have more control over the process when selling your music on your own website. You can use your own dedicated website, social network profile or blog as an online store to promote your music and turn a profit by including an MP3 music application from which visitors can purchase individual tracks or entire playlists.
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Choose an e-commerce solution that will allow you to receive electronic payments online. Several open source e-commerce platforms are available, such as Magento and ZenCart, that have customizable user interfaces and other options. If you are using WordPress for your website, you should consider WP E-commerce, which will allow you to accept payment for digital file downloads. Other options include Easybe, Clickbank and Shopify, all of which offer unique preferences, fees and customization features. You will need to link your e-commerce application to a Paypal or bank account to accept payments.
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Determine where you would like to include the music purchasing application on your website. You can dedicate an entire page to the shop or simply place a widget on your home page where your fans can directly purchase tracks.
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Install the music shop application by embedding the source code for the e-commerce platform you have selected into your website. You will need to use a website editing application like Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver that will allow you to edit the HTML code of your website.
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Edit the HTML code of your online store to customize the interface and appearance. Each e-commerce platform is slightly different, so you will need to consult the manual of your particular solution to determine exactly how you can make these changes.
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Upload the music tracks that you wish to sell to your website's database. While some online stores will allow you to input your tracks via a dedicated user interface, other e-commerce platforms will require that you edit the code of the store to create links to your MP3 files. Set the price of each track you are selling.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not attempt to sell recordings that you do not own the copyright to, as this is in violation of the law.
