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Listen up starving musicians, a new service called [SoundStation][1] from SoundLoud.com can help speed your transformation from rags to riches. SoundStation is music player that can be embedded in any page and it allows you to sell your songs within the page.
Similar to Snocap, the MySpace music player/store, SoundStation makes it easy to embed your music in a page and sell it, rather than having to redirect listeners to iTunes, Napster or other dedicated music store.
But SoundStation has it's work cut out for them. Snocap is already way ahead in terms of market share and profile, but SoundStation offer better royalty rates for musicians and in a world where nearly everything seems to be cut-and-paste simple, royalties could tip the balance.
SoundSation offers artists a slightly lower fee of $0.33 on a $0.99 track whereas iTunes takes $0.34 and MySpace Music and Snocap scrape a whopping $0.45 off every track.
As part of the service, SoundLoud automatically tracks all the activity of your SoundStation Music Stores. You can view your total visitors, plays, downloads, and earnings information at SoundLoud.
At the moment you are limited to selling 7 songs, but SoundLoud promises unlimited downloads and whole album downloads are both in the works.
Oh and a note to SoundLoud, just because you're building a Flash-based music paler is no reason to build your whole site in Flash. Yuck.
[1]: http://soundloud.com/ "SoundStation from SoundLoud.com"
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