If you’re a band member or solo artist creating and promoting music on your own schedule, taking about an hour or so to organize the “desktop” on your laptop computer’s opening screen is time well-spent, and then some. A quick suggestion is to back up all your music files and lyrics on 2 Cd Roms or a memory stick (I prefer the latter for holding up to 8 gigs of music files), and copying the files to the desktop in a neatly labeled folder, in wav AND mp3 formats. Why? The wav files are what you will use to burn music cd’s for quick music promotion when needed for booking a venue, or to piece together for your album pressing, while the mp3 files are for you to ingest into online mp3 sales sites such as amazon and itunes and daily promotional efforts to online music-related websites and radio. There’s nothing greater or more convenient than having the ability to instantly upload and register your mp3’s with the copyright office, entirely online, for instant peace-of-mind. Clearing the clutter on your laptop’s homescreen, and making it “lean and mean” with all music files in wav and mp3 format, neatly labeled in a folder for quick access, THEN taking all of your lyrics, organizing them using a word processing program like MS Word (or your laptop computer’s pre-installed word processing program), placing all relevant copyright and contact information on your lyrics, and making the presentation of the lyrics look as professional as possible, will enable you to place them all in ANOTHER clearly labeled desktop folder for quick access (back them up on a disc or memory stick along with the music files), to be placed right next to the folder containing your music files. This way, you can have two separate folders for music and lyrics, and when one song needs to be uploaded for quick promotion, you have the music files and the lyrics all ready to upload, and right in front of you.
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