I have another Teenage Dreams show ready to upload to MixCloud, and will do so tomorrow. I wasn't really happy with the last one; it had been over 3 months since I had produced one, and I was a bit rusty on the mic. This one I'm a lot more satisfied with.
It's what I call a CHUM chart special. CHUM was a Toronto-based Top 40 (actually Top 50) radio station in the late 1950s and the 1960s, and they were one of the most influential in Canada. The show plays music that appeared on the CHUM charts for the year 1965, but didn't chart in the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.
There's a lot of Canadian talent in the show, as well as a smattering of international artists, as Toronto, at least in its music tastes, tended to be rather cosmopolitan. There are also a few surprises, including songs by the Beatles, the Everly Brothers, and believe it or not, a holdover from the big band era.
And lest you think that you'll be getting the dregs from Canada, you'll hear the precursor band to Steppenwolf, the singer who would go on to lead Blood Sweat & Tears, early Gordon Lightfoot, and much more.
Listening now, sounds good. What's the situation with Mix cloud and copyright?
They claim to pay any and all copyright fees, my guess is that it's for the country in which their servers are located (the UK). There are probably reciprocal arrangements between UK licensing bodies and others around the world to distribute fee, much like in Canada with SOCAN.
The money for these fees for the free acount comes from advertising on the site.
They've been around for a while and have not been shut down, so my guess is that they're operating legally in terms of copyright.
If you only use the free acount, you can store up to 10 shows. The paid account allows you any number.
You don't have to submit songlists like you do with other aggregators. They seem to use song recognition technology to get the copyright status of the songs contained in each show. Good luck with that for some of the material that I use.b
MixCloud is a good way to make your shows available for listening. As I've stated previously, it is not a distribution mechanism. As far as I know, there is no way to download entire shows, as there is for Youtube (somewhat illegally, depending on the material being downloaded).
@artisan-radio That's similar to Zeno Radio, it covers the royalties but only that played through their website. So, if for the example you made the stream available on your own website then the responsibility of copyright fees becomes your own. I don't know how they might be controlling that, because they do provide a widget that can be put on your website.
I really don't understand how it works works at all... There's been times in the past where I've uploaded videos to YouTube and then received an alert from YouTube that my Video contained some copyright music - but not to worry and YouTube takes care of it and I neither had to remove it or pay royalties... Ok, what?... and in other cases it will automatically remove the audio from the portion of the video that infringed on whatever particular infringement occurred. - I don't get it at all. YouTube is saturated with massive amount of copyright material.
I don't understand any of what's going on that permits it at all
I'm not sure how Youtube works either.
I do know that fair use in the U.S. allows snippets of copyrighted music. And as far as I know, fair use isn't well defined either.