This is basically why all my music is in the form of screen recordings of Live these days. Rendering is effort! And no one listens to it anyway. If someone actually asks for a FLAC or MP3, I'll do it, but no one has.
I never managed more than 2-3 sales per album at peak when I did albums and EPs, and even a simple release with some thrown together cover art is 10x the work for basically no return. People do watch the videos[0], and enough people pay $5+/month for it--they go to YouTube later--to make it worth doing and cover new tools.
I never managed more than 2-3 sales per album at peak when I did albums and EPs, and even a simple release with some thrown together cover art is 10x the work for basically no return. People do watch the videos[0], and enough people pay $5+/month for it--they go to YouTube later--to make it worth doing and cover new tools.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/@keenkye/