We are pleased to announce the addition of DJTunes to the always growing store network at Label Engine. DJTunes is the first and one of the leading European dance music download portals, designed to serve the needs of the club culture of the future. DJTUNES considers itself as part of a vibrant international music scene and is in constant communication …
iTunes “Daily Sales Updates” Now Available!
Daily iTunes sales figures are now available for our distribution customers, meaning that we now provide daily updates for iTunes, Beatport and Juno.
Audible Magic
Submission of your tracks to Audible Magic is now available to our distribution customers. This service allows you to automatically block all uploads of your tracks to their partner websites, including Hulkshare. A full list of sites is available at http://www.audiblemagic.com/customers-contentid.php, however we have removed Soundcloud from the list as we know a lot of you post track previews there. …
Accounting Basics – Artist Accounts
The number one question we get asked at Label Engine in regards to accounting is “what is the ‘Accounts’ drop-down for”? To delve into the reasoning behind it, let me first explain two different accounting methods that labels commonly use for royalty allocations. The first system is on a per-track basis. For each track, the label agrees with the artist …
The BIG Question – How do I get my release featured on Beatport?
As a label owner, I get asked this question so often, and lots of people assume that the banners on Beatport are paid features. Luckily, or unfortunately, depending on how you perceive it, this is not the case. The banners are editorial, meaning that Beatport listen to the tracks, view the documentation that you or your distributor provides them, and …
Site Updates
We’ve made a couple of updates to the site today; Firstly, we now have an “Invoices” section in “Accounts”. This allows you to send out invoices to any company or artist for outstanding sales or statements, or additional items. It works in a similar way to the statements system – you select which items you’d like to appear on the …
Meet a Label Engine representative at ADE
We are about a little over month away from ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) that starts October 17 all through October 21. The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the leading electronic music platform and the biggest club festival in the world for the whole spectrum of electronic sub-genres. The event offers a full program of daytime conferences as well. Label Engine will …
We have a new audio player!
We’ve added a new soundcloud style audio player to the site, you can see it when editing an individual track, when sharing files, or in the demos section, where waveform images are now generated for all uploaded demo files. We will be using the new style player throughout the promo system when we update the promo pages later this year. …
Pre-allocations, what are they and why should I use them?
Recently we’ve been working a lot on incorporating a pre-allocation system into Label Engine, but what are pre-allocations and why should you care? Well, with the standard way that most of you are used to doing your accounts with Label Engine, each time you upload a new statement you see a list of your royalties and work your way through …
Slacker & Deezer the latest stores added to our network
Our network of partner stores continue to grow, Slacker and Deezer are now a part of it. Slacker is a personalized based radio application that can be used in your smart phone or computer, they combine the knowledge of some the nation’s leading music experts from every genre and your own personal taste to create perfect radio stations. Subscribers are …