TuneCore

TuneCore does MP3 distribution for musicians (Music Industry).

They push masters to multiple online stores (ITunes, Amazon, etc.) for a fixed-price, rather than a share of royalties.

founded 2005

The TuneCore concept, technology and licensing platform was created by the team that invented the $.99 music download at EMusic in 1998.

http://www.tunecore.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuneCore

In December 2006, music instrument and equipment retailer Guitar Center bought a majority stake in TuneCore, giving the company access to the music retailer's customers.

http://www.tunecore.com/index/bios

http://dumbonyc.com/2007/04/16/tunecore-interview/

Nov'2007 interview with Jeff Price. I view TuneCore differently than maybe the way other people do. The reason is because I know in my head what I want us to be; we just haven't gotten there yet, because it takes time to build it. So what is it, what are we? In the end, what is TuneCore? It's Expedia, it's Travelocity, it's Orbitz. As a traveler, you go to a Web site to take the pain out of being a traveler. You get your airplane out of it, and then there are the other things you'll need that are specific to being a traveler: car rental, vacation package, travel insurance, and so on. So it's one place to simplify. And that was my thought with TuneCore - you go to one place, to simplify. But the radical shift in the model is, it's a music-industry model that doesn't take any rights or revenues from the exploitation of the masters - it's all service-fee based. So you show up for your airplane ticket, which is digital distribution, but maybe when you're there you want to get CD-s made, so we manufacture them. Or, you want to get posters or buttons or T-Shirt-s or stickers, and we do that.

Oct03'2008 MP3 interview with Jeff Price