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May 23, 2005

Garageband.com goes wall-to-wall

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Posted by Matt May

Music site Garageband.com is now fully on board with podcasting as a mechanism for promoting performing artists. I've been chatting with them for a while, as they experimented with a Creative Commons-licensed promo for American Idol finalist Bo Bice. Now, they appear to be revamping their site to be among the most podcast-friendly around.

Today, the company announced the release of GarageBand Podcast Studio, a Flash-based tool that allows anyone to select tracks from GarageBand artists and mix them with uploaded voiced segments as desired. The service is now free, with a dual revenue model (free podcasts with ads, paid ones without) in the cards. Future plans include a phone number to let... uh, podcast DJs, phone it in. (We gotta come up with some kind of a name for people like this. PJs is just a non-starter.)

In addition, each band now has its own podcast feed. At 40,000 strong, that's a bit of a jump in the amount of available podcast content. Subscribers will get new music from their chosen artists as it's uploaded.

GarageBand, which now touts itself as "the world's largest catalog of podcast-ready music," also considers podcasters to be part of their broadcast network, and waives royalties from its end for podcasters who sign up with them.

Time will tell how many podcasters are drawn in by these tools. But I'd sure like to see recording labels come anywhere near this. There's a big announcement on that front expected sometime this week, from another group of folks I've been talking with.

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