artists: features

Here are just some of the features that you'll find, or that we're working on:

  • Digital music downloads in lossy (MP3) and CD-quality lossless (FLAC) formats.
  • Samples of each track will be available for potential customers to listen to.
  • Customer reviews and recommendations.
  • Recommendations based on customers' past purchases and similar purchases by other customers.
  • Affiliate program. Earn commissions on all sales through your web site. Open to anyone with a web site.
  • Affiliates (this includes you) can add 'Buy Now', 'Add to Cart' and 'Fret Tunes' buttons on their myspace and web sites.
  • Affiliates (this includes you) can place 'Buy Now', 'Add to Cart' and 'Fret Tunes' links in e-mails and newsletters.
  • No DRM (Digital Rights Management). Customers have the same rights as when they buy CDs.
  • Listen on any portable device, any computer.
  • Customers can burn CDs, subject to legal limitations.
  • Promotion on the new Fret Net web site.
  • Radio air play on the Fret Net show promotes guitar music.
  • Artists get their own pages within the Fret Tunes web site, which includes a CMS (Content Management System) allowing the artist to update his or her own pages.
  • Artists get 70% of sell price, more with affiliate program, and more with volume sales.
  • Competitive pricing. We are looking at US$8.99 per album for lossy compression (MP3) and US$9.99 for lossless (FLAC).
  • The company is run by Fret Net producer and host, Steve Passiouras, so you know you'll get great service and support.