Liberty Music Store - buy and sell music with Bitcoin. Anyone can open a store.

[miohtama]

This is my weekend hacking project.

Liberty Music Store - Sell songs on your homepage, receive Bitcoin

If you know any musicians who are into Bitcoin, Liberty Music Store is the place for them.

I hope to bring the barrier lower for musicians to do indie sales. This should also encourage Bitcoin purchases. The tradional payment methods have hard time to compete in this use case as the purchase process is dead simple with Bitcoin: click song, click the payment link, it opens your wallet and then you accept the purchase. The download stars automatically after this. No sign ups. No hassling with credit card numbers.

The process is simple is simple for the artists too. Upload a ZIP file containing your songs. Name your price. Then you'll receive a HTML code you can put on your site.

The project is 100% transparent, 100% open source, available on Github.

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EDIT: artist update

We have already six brave band going into Bitcoin! If you find their music interest please support their work by buying the album.



https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/tatiana.jpg

Tatiana Moroz - Country

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/yesconnie.jpg

YESConnie - rap

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/hollowcircle.jpg

The Hollow Circle - Rock

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/codeunknown.jpg

Code Unknown - Metal (Facebook store)

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/subatomica.jpg

Subatomatica - Electronica (Facebook store)

https://libertymusicstore.net/static/img/dharmafire.jpg

The Dharma Fire - Phychedelic




I'll throw a Bitcoin party when ten bands have signed up and opened their store. Everybody welcome  

Peace,
Mikko

[beatljuice]

Very nice! Thank you for doing this!

[Bibop]

Thanks. liked the design and support any artistic vision based on bitcoin. im sure its going to work

[miohtama]

Liberty Music Store - Sell songs on your homepage, receive Bitcoin

The project got interviewed by CryptoCoinNews.

Also some new artists have joined. Looks like this might become interesting in long term

[miohtama]

Posted a big update on Liberty Music Store last night.

• The site has now theme designed by a professional. This makes it one of the rare Bitcoin sites which does not look like dog poop.
• New artists have signed up. I updated the first message in the thread for the list.

[Hash Master]

That's kinda cool. Would have been nice if we can pay for the Spotify Premium with btc as well.

[Samperio]

Awesome.

Bought first track buy via the page. All went smooth and faster than a couple of credit or debit card purchases, not to mention Payp...delay =D

Dharma Fire's content definitely works to get my meditational state kickstarted... maybe I should visualize some BTC transactions while listening to that great track "Madhar" and so be one with the blockchain cosmos.  :-P

(Madhar, track which, for not so whimcscal reasons, reminds me a little of greatly inspired artist Peter Gabriel's 'Secret world').

[miohtama]

Please welcome the latest band going Bitcoin: B.U.N.K.S (hiphop):

http://bunksperience.com/bunks-now-accept-bitcoin-for-music-downloads/

 

[Glucose]

Is your website still in activity ? Looks like a great opportunity for artists.

[dezoel]

amazing! thanks for sharing to us..,
that will help me buy legal music...

[Small]

Has anyone actually got to sell anything from here?

[Glucose]

Has anyone actually got to sell anything from here?

I hope they have. It's bitcoins holders responsability to support this kind of initiatives

[miohtama]

Hi,

Has anyone actually got to sell anything from here?

I just did major facelift for the site. Here are some information (also available in the blog

After operating half a year Liberty Music Store has reached the one hundred albums milestone. Currently there are 3-5 purchases per week, so it is not exactly money making machine for anybody yet. However at least there now exists  a way for Bitcoin enthusiastics to buy good music!

Recent changes

I have been working with block.io team to make Bitcoin payments as fluent as possible. After resolving some issues here and there finally I can trust the infrastructure and artists get paid in 24 hours after somebody has purchased any music.

The site has now separate buy section where one can browse music by a genre.

News letter and blog are available to follow the development of things.

Next steps

Feature-wise the site will probably receive "pay what you want" option, as many people have been requesting this. But please note that I am working on this for fun, on my free time, so I cannot really promise any hard deadlines when things go out. You are still free to poke me by email any day

People also have been asking to be able to upload images for each song. This will probably follow soon.

[miohtama]

This is my weekend hacking project.

Liberty Music Store - Sell songs on your homepage, receive Bitcoin

... and looks like we have managed to become the number one Bitcoin music store in the world.

Some Reddit love.

[equator]

just now saw your thread and surfed your site, its cool , and accepting as bitcoin payment is very good, it will really help the new talent also to sell their music videos.