02Oct 2022 by Jon
How to Claim Your Spotify for Artists Profile Before Your First Release

How to Claim Your Spotify for Artists Profile Before Your First Release

Audio Streaming, Home Recording Blogs, Techniques
Releasing music to Spotify for the first time can be confusing — especially when you don’t yet have an Artist page that’s easy to find. In this guide, I’ll show you how to claim your Spotify for Artists profile before your first release goes live, so you can pitch your track to Spotify editorial playlists and get your launch set up properly. This walkthrough is based on my own experience claiming a brand new artist profile using DistroKid, but the same general process applies to most distributors. 🎥 Watch the step-by-step video https://youtu.be/wlkNl4ZHRas Why You Should Claim Your Spotify for Artists Profile Spotify is one of the biggest streaming platforms, and getting your music in front of listeners often comes down to visibility — and playlists are a big part…
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10Feb 2021 by Jon
Using AudioMovers for high-quality audio streaming

Using AudioMovers for high-quality audio streaming

Audio Streaming, Blog, Home Recording Blogs, Sound Design, Sound Effects, Techniques
Introduction Recently I had to deliver my first online teaching session. The subject was sound design and I wanted the students to hear the audio at the same quality I was hearing in my home studio.  For this I needed high-quality audio streaming. I knew what I wanted to achieve with the live stream, but I wasn’t exactly clear how to do it. My goal was to share my screen, while demonstrating Adobe Audition, through the Zoom conferencing App. I needed to route audio from my microphone and also route audio from Adobe Audition and possibly from other apps or my web browser. I also wanted to keep the audio quality as high as possible. So, this blog post is all about how I achieved High-Quality Audio Streaming alongside Zoom.…
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