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How Much Do Music Streaming Services Pay?

May 31, 2024
Business, Spotify, Apple, Music, Money

Before releasing any music I always wondered how much people were paid when their music was streamed. It is a remarkably difficult thing to pin down. I researched the question beforehand, came up with my own estimates, and ended up being about 50% wrong when I released my first album to streaming services (a FFXI remake/cover album of music I covered for the HorizonXI private server.) I wasn’t doing the project to make a profit but I was annoyed at how difficult it is to calculate your earnings in advance of releasing a project. ...

Custom FFXI Looped Music Tutorial (2023)

September 17, 2023
Final Fantasy XI, Music Production, BGW Files

Don’t worry. I understand this might be one of the most unpopular blog posts of 2023. I hope you know not the plight of researching a detailed niche on the internet, having that search result in a mere handful of cobwebbed post on long forgotten forums, then having to piece together these broken hieroglyphs of information into a rough translation of what it means to do what they did in 2006, then assess how you might do the same in 2023. ...