I finally made a checklist for what I do to release each album. This will help me.
FYI, every one of these steps are actually several, or many, steps.
Posting to website so I won’t lose it. lol.
WHEN ALL SONGS DONE:
- Sequence songs.
- Replace files of any songs with issues.
- Do single-file album output, checking levels are right.
- Needle drops through single file
- Analysis on left vs. right volumes, adjust tiny bit if needed, then recheck.
- Raise and lower by tiny bit any songs and sections too quiet or too loud
- Listen to entire file.
- (IF LYRICS) Work on lyric sheet while listening. Include notes and microtonal scales, and notes about making of songs, if there is a story.
- Make any needed adjustments.
- Replace curly quotes with straight in Lyric sheet
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- Make versions of cover art in these sizes, in JPGs (all square, in pixels): 2000, 1700, 450, 220.
- Release single file on Bip and Feens site.
- Announce release online.
- Add album to BANDCAMP
- Do DistroKid release: Upload WAVs of every song. Enter info for every song.
- Add Bandcamp / Spotify, etc to player page.
- Add to page “ALL ALBUMS”
- Make song MP3s (256Kbs) for Tor and Streaming. Numbering format 01, NOT 1!
- Make FLAC lossless torrent. Add on Archive.org
- Link torrents on album page.
- Add FLAC page link to “ALL ALBUMS”
- (IF LYRICS) add lyrics to lyric page
- Clear cache on pages as I go
- Promote all everywhere on Facebeast (all groups I admin) and Tweeter daily online for a week.
- PROMO ON FLAC PAGES
- ADD to seedbox.
- Once on Spotify from DistroKid, Share on Twitter, Facebook (all groups, tag Link), and put on player pages on website.
- Once on Spotify also add the microtonal songs to Bugs’ microtonal playlist.
- Back up all files, onsite and off, and clear Reaper folder for next album.
- Link on Synth and Music groups on Facebeef where I’m a member.
- Put new songs on streaming feed, and in archive folder for same, change folder number name.
- Add torrent file to torrent folder on archive drive.
- Add updated RSS file to above.