Chapter 23
Creating Your Finished Product
IN THIS CHAPTER
Putting your music on CD
Choosing settings for USB flash drives
Encoding your music to MP3
Preparing your music for vinyl
Once you have your music recorded, mixed, and mastered, you’re ready for the final steps to putting it out into the world. This involves creating the final audio format for the distribution method you choose.
In this chapter, I walk you through the process of putting your music on CD whether it’s for you to sell or for you to hand off to a manufacturer that creates retail-ready packages for you to distribute. This process is pretty easy, and by following a few simple steps, which I lay out in detail for you, you end up with a product you’ll be proud of.
Also in this chapter, you explore the process of creating digital files to use for any kind of digital delivery option. This not only allows you to offer downloads of your music online, but also lets you put your music on streaming services such as Spotify. I walk you through the process of determining the right way to encode your digital files and preparing ...
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