Selling Music Online

This is what I am looking for, a free, automated method for selling music files online from a website. Automated meaning I don’t have to do anything when the music is sold, and free meaning I don’t have to pay anyone for the ability to do this. As far as I can see, there is no way to arrange this, not yet at least. A lot of services and methods come close, but they all have downsides.

There are a ton of websites offering a music file or mp3 selling system complete with file previews, all completely automated, but they all cost money. I don’t want to pay anyone any money to sell my music. This is the goal: to be able to sell my music online without any overhead. If musicians can achieve that then we can all profit from our music.

I’m not saying musicians cant sell their music online and make a profit with the current systems, they can. But we shouldn’t have to pay any money. There has to be a way to sell our music from our own sites without paying anyone. This could be the future of selling music, on the internet or otherwise; all musicians selling their own music online from their own sites, and keeping 100% of the profits that they deserve.

Paypal has some services that come close to what I want. Ive tried a few things out and I can make an automated system for buying a file download, but the problem is that there are a few pretty easy ways around it to get the files for free. In order to block that, I have to lose the complete automation of the process. There are sites that host your music and sell it, even license your music with creative commons, but they take a cut of the sales of course.

The search for a completely automated and free way of selling music online continues.