Concert List

The Internet has proven to be where music may be discovered, reviewed, discussed, shared, and purchased. Musicians know this and get On-line to upload their music and become a part of the world wide  music machine process. They come on the Web at every age, at every experience level – musically and PC savvy. From youngsters starting out to seasoned performers just learning where the PC on switch is, the workings of being on a PC may be overwhelming with everything else they have going on in their lives.

The Web additionally allows artists access to music knowledge. artists will come across difficult terminology and phrases that they do not understand. Compiled in the following mini glossary are music business, digital, companies, record biz lingo, PC terms and standard need-to-know info. Hopefully, something listed here will advocate you navigate music Online a bit easier, and so you know, this glossary is an excerpt of an extensive list found on Artistopia.

A&R – Artist and Repertoire, aka talent scouts: a record company liaison whose duties might include to find, pick and develop the music artist, band and/or songwriter.

Affiliate Program – a way to earn income by linking your Website to another website, depending on the action taken by the visitor.

ASCAP – American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers which licenses and distributes royalties to it’s members’ copyrighted works.

Bandwidth – has little to do with the size of a band but is a measure of the amount of information (data) that may be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is ofttimes measured in bits per second.

Bitrate – The number of kilobits per second of data in your audio file. The bitrate you select when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting MP3. The highest commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps and the higher the bitrate, the closer the encoding is to the original source of music.

Blanket License - allows the user to perform any or all, in part or all, of the songs in the ASCAP repertory. What a warm and cozy license.

Business Manager – an performer or band manager that specializes in the financial matters, including planning, investing, income, taxes, decisions and contracts.

Buzz – to get individuals talking about a new artist, band, song or album, creating intense excitement and/or rumors.

Clause – a chubby fellow in a red su it is Claus: in a record contract, there can be certain limitations, specifications, or modifications that stipulate the  final outcome of that contract.

Concert  promoter - with duties including ticketing, PR, marketing, and booking, this agency or agent responsibilities are for concert gathering promotion.

Content – to make the Search Engines happy and have pages rank well in a search result, a good quantity of well written text aligning with the web site’s keywords and theme updated ofttimes is a Webmaster’s steak and potatoes.

Cookie – no, not chocolate chip, but a piece of software that records info about your visit to a Web site, then holds the info until the server requests it.

Copyright – a performance of exclusive rights regulating the use of a specific expression of an idea or information, in our case artistic properties, the songs and sound recordings.

Derivative Work – a new work based on or resulting from one or more preceding works.

Digital Licensing – the use of copyrighted music compositions including downloads, on demand streaming, limited use downloads and compact disc  burning.

Distributor – the agency or agent that handles the sales and shipment of the music (records, CD s) to the marketplace or standard ally, gets the product to the consumers.

Domain Name – a sign post on the Internet, it’s a unique name that identifies an Internet web site.

Digital Rights Management – Digital Rights Management is a technology that protects a piece of intellectual digital property such as a music, video, or text file.

Encoding – the process of converting audio to or from a compressed format prefer MP3 or WMA.

Exclusive Rights – under copyright law, the privileges that only a copyright owner has with respect to the copyrighted work.

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) – a file format for audio data compression that doesn’t remove information from the audio stream, as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do.

Grammy Awards – an award ceremony for all type ofs presented by the Recording Academy for outstanding achievements in the recording industry: a gold megaphone for your mantel.

Groupie – what has the point of being an act in the absence of groupies? Overly enthusiastic audiences with much love to offer.

HTML – HyperText Markup Language, programming language for the world broad  web. A Internet browser interprets the code written and displays it for a Internet page and Web site s. Some eminently basic knowledge of HTML may advocate on some website s.

Hook – a pirate: a music phrase, a passage, an idea – something (catchy and/or repetitive) that makes the song stand out and be more appealing and recall ed.

Hype – sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or product.

Independent – an independent musician or performer that desires to do-it-all-themselves and/or not affiliated with a larger record label.

Intern – a number of times a college student job at a record label in a no or low paying position, more of an apprenticeship learning the ropes and gaining business experience.

Web Service offer r (ISP) – how and who connects your computer or network to the Web, whether dialup, DSL, Cable, T1 or T3.

Master Recording License – pertains to the recording of a show itself, which are regularly controlled by the record label.

Mastering – the  final stage and preparation in a recording before weapons of mass duplication, includes the consistency of audio levels and quality perfecting.

Mechanical License – the use of copyrighted musical compositions for use on CD s, cassettes, record albums.

Music Contracts – all the various bits of paperwork used in the music business, always read the “fine print” to the a lot of contracts – recording, management, finders fee, general release contracts. When the contracts come in – time to get an Entertainment Attorney.

music business – all things pertaining and associated with the business of music, dominated by the Big Four major labels: Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI.

Music Publisher – provides services such as marketing, pitching and promoting works written by songwriters. Deals with the commercial exploitation of music catalogs and tunes.

Press Kit – aka media kit, a prepackaged  set of promotional materials for a music performer or band for distribution including song samples, bio, historical info, photos and contact information.

Producer – duties include: controlling the recording  set, guidance of the artist(s), coaching, organizing, scheduling of production sources and budgets, as well as supervising the process of recording, mixing and mastering.

Publishing Royalties – income paid to the writer of a song.

RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America, the organization that represents the interests of record labels and producers in the USA.

Ripping – means to take an audio compact disc  and record it to a PC in an uncompressed file format (wav). Digital audio extraction from one media form to a hard disk.

Roadie – the road crew that travels with a band on tour. The hard working individuals do everything but the performance, are technicians, do the performance up and take down, security, bodyguards, pyrotechnics, and lighting.

Sampling Rate – the number of samples taken per second when digitizing sound. The higher the number, the better the quality of the digital reproduction.

SoundEx change – an independent, nonprofit gig rights organization that collects and distributes digital gig royalties for recording musicians and record labels when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable, satellite television music, Web and satellite radio.

Sound Recording – the copyright of the recording itself (what you hear, the entire production) as distinguished from the copyright of the song (words and music owned by the songwriter or publisher).

Synchronization License – aka “synch” license, allows the user to reproduce a musical composition “in connection with” or “in timed relation with” a visual image, motion picture, video, advertising commercial – from the copyright owner of the music.

Talent Agent – or booking agent, the representative of the music artist(s) that  sets up the live concert s.

Vanity Label – a celebrity recording artist is given a label within a label and runs under the umbrella of the parent label.