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Being Featured As An Artist on Starpolish.com
Q: I am a StarPolish artist, and see all of these great artists being featured on the site. How can I be one of those artists? A: Currently, there are 3 ways to be featured on the site, all of them begin with making sure you are indeed signed up as a StarPolish Artist, which is free and easy, and have properly created your artist page. At that point, you will have access to these 3 outlets:
The Buzzing Artist
This section is within the Features section. To be a Buzzing Artist, you must submit a success story (that hopefully capitalizes on advice you learned from StarPolish, but isn't limited to such instances) to us. Two artists are chosen per month for this section, and the winners and their stories will also be featured to our A&R and Attorney Panels for consideration.
The Critics Corner/Discover Music
This section on the homepage and within the artist section. All StarPolish artists may be reviewed at any time by any of our critics, but to better your chances you should write them an email personally, and explain why and where you should be reviewed. Do not list links to mp3.com or other sites, make sure your music is available on StarPolish. The critics who wish to be emailed list their email addresses on their profile page.
The CD Store
To be featured here, you must be selling your CD through the StarPolish store. If you would like to be featured, you can plead your case to us and we'll try to accommodate.
Q: I am a StarPolish artist and would like to put my songs up on my StarPolish page, but am not technically savvy and have no idea where to start. Can you help? A: Sure can! Take a look at our digital audio primer in our advice section:
Read through that section, and make the decision on whether you want your song to stream (be instantly listenable, but not able to be saved on a hard drive, somewhat like radio) or DOWNLOAD (higher quality, but able to be saved and therefore burned onto CD or traded online, etc). Then it's just a matter of ripping (digitizing your audio) the songs off of your CD and then converting the .wav (pc) or .aiff (mac) files to a smaller compressed format that can be tossed around on the web.
If you would like to stream, real audio is currently the format of choice, although you can also do Quicktime and Windows Media encoding. I would suggest going to www.real.com and looking at ways to encode your file into a real audio file.
For downloading, mp3 is still the way to go. We personally use Audio Catalyst by Xing to do our encoding here in the office, but there are a variety of programs that will do an outstanding job.
Q: I would love to have my music reviewed by the panels of industry veterans represented on your site. How can I do that? A: The A&R Panel members regularly scour the StarPolish community in search of new talent:
They recognize that it is a goldmine of up and coming artists, and we receive requests for individual artists' contact info all the time coming from our A&R panel. However, because of the number of artists in the StarPolish community, we cannot make available the contact information of our panel members. There are ways to guarantee yourself to be heard by the panels, like winning contests or being featured as a Buzzing Artist (see question #1). Sign up for the StarPolish Newsletter and stay tuned for your all of the opportunities as they are announced.
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