How to Sell MP3's Online

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FREDERICK BURCHELL: Hello. My name is Frederick "Ricky B." Burchell with B4 Entertainment on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to talk about producing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing your independent CD. Now, let's talk about MP3s. MP3s are becoming so important now in your manufacturing because that's a lot of ways people buy music nowadays; it's growing rapidly. What you want to do when you're making your MP3s is you want to set it a good quality rate. You can set MP3s at any quality, people e-mail it to each other, but when people want to buy MP3s, they want it at a good quality. I suggest that you make all your MP3s 192k or above. You don't want to make anything less than that because it starts to sound muddy. And when people buy it they'll go, "Ah, the quality doesn't good. It doesn't sound as good as all these other MP3s." So what you want to do is when you're making your MP3s or whoever is making your MP3s, tell them, "I want a 192k or above." You can go 256, you can go with about--you can go as high as you want but the minimum should be 192. If you're planning on selling MP3s on your web sites or in the iTunes or any company that sells digital downloads, you want to make sure it's that high. You can make 'em at 96k. You can make 'em at 128k but the quality starts--you start losing quality--192k is close to a CD quality. A lot of people can't recognize the difference. Some people like studio engineers or people who have been involved in music for a long time can --can maybe recognize the difference but the most average consumer can't tell the difference on--after 192. So I suggest that whenever--when you're making MP3s, make 'em at 192k.

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