Hey folks!

It's been a while since we sent out some updates about jam.coop and we've added a few new features for you to try out. Read on!

What is jam.coop?

jam.coop is an online record store owned co-operatively by musicians and the people who work here. Owning it together means we can rely on it and share in the profits together. We've answered some common questions at jam.coop/about.

Tagging your music

Artists can now tag their music. We support the same set of genre tags that Musicbrainz use, but soon we'll let artists add their own too.

If you're an artist, head to your account dashboard, edit your albums and tag away. Make atmospheric sludge metal? We've got your back.

We'll wait a little while until we have some more music tagged, and then make it easier for people to find music using them. You can get a little peak by following the links on album pages, for example jam.coop/tags/ambient.

Licensing your music

We now make it easy to choose a license for your music, for example the Attribution-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license.

By default everything is "All rights reserved" so if you're an artist there's no need to change anything.

More metadata in your downloads

If you buy music on jam, and we'd love it if you did, the downloaded files now have a bunch of useful metadata (e.g. proper track numbering, release dates) so that they look great wherever you play them.

Atom feeds

You heard us. Keep up with the latest releases on jam like it's 2005 with our Albums Atom feed.

We love feeds, so expect artist-specific, genre feeds and more soon.

jam.coop in the news

Cut off the Spigot wrote about jam.coop in their post Co-Op, Non-Profit, & Other Alternative Music Streaming and Purchasing Platforms to Pay Artists More \$\$.

Our artists sold £125.50 of digital downloads in January. We paid out £106.68 after deducting our platform fee of 15% (keeping £18.82).

We've been using Wise to pay our artists and they take a fee depending on the location of the artist. Wise fees added up to £1.78 in total for January.

We incur some costs to run jam.coop. Render where we run 2 servers (one for the website, one for background jobs) and a database cost £53.39 in January. We paid postmark £11.90 for sending emails, and AWS $9.76 for S3 storage of artists music and bandwidth for streaming and downloads. Stripe also charged us around £8 in fees for credit card processing.

James and I logged 30 hours work on the project in January. As you can see above, we're not making enough in platform fees to cover the running costs currently, so that work remains unpaid for now. Go Free Range continues to cover the excess running costs.

10 different Artists sold music on jam.coop in January which is very exciting for us. We had 34 new artists creating accounts in January and 51 albums created.

Hello!

Thank you for your continued support and interest in jam.coop. We've got a few updates to share. Read on!

What is jam.coop?

jam.coop is a co-operatively owned platform for musicians to connect with and sell their music to their supporters. Owning it together means we can rely on it for the long term and share in the profits together. We've answered some common questions at jam.coop/about.

Want to sell your music on jam.coop? Sign up now!

You can now sign up and create an artist page on jam.coop! Visit jam.coop, click "sign up", create an account and verify your email address. You'll be able to create an artist page and add digital albums to sell by clicking "add artist" under the avatar menu at the top right.

Check our FAQ or hit reply to this email if you have any questions!

Tell people about jam.coop

We'd like more people to know about jam.coop.

Please feel free to share a link to jam.coop, your artist page if you have one, or any thoughts you have about jam with your communities and friends. We now support "social media cards" for artist and album pages so you should get a nice preview on many social networks.

Have a listen to some music!

jam.coop is about the music and creating a sustainable way for us to support our favourite musicians.

There's loads of great music already on jam, here's a few of my favourites:

• pas pensé by couleurves - a small, mellow collection of reworked ambient tracks. Beautiful combination of guitar and synths.
• Withered Tree by cayce crane - an infectious groove inspired by a 70's film.
• Sun Scorched Songs of Sorrow by Helen Bell - lovely English chamber folk exploring our relationship with the physical world.

As we enter a quieter period for many around the world, wherever this email finds you we hope you have a peaceful and relaxing break.

Hello!

Thank you for signing up to find out more about jam.coop. Here's an update on where we've got to and how you can get involved.

What is jam.coop?

jam.coop is a co-operatively owned platform for musicians to connect with and sell their music to their supporters. Owning it together means we can rely on it for the long term and share in the profits together. We've answered some common questions at jam.coop/about

What are you working on?

So far we've onboarded a few wonderful artists. You can take a look at their pages, listen to their music and purchase digital downloads of their releases by starting at jam.coop/artists. We'd love to hear any feedback you have. Hit reply to this email to share your thoughts.

We want to add some more artists so that we can "launch" with a homepage showcasing a variety of music. That's where you can help:

How can I get involved?

Are you an artist? If you already have music on bandcamp or another service and would like to sell it through jam.coop, hit reply, tell us a bit about yourself and we'll get you started.

Do you run a label? We'd love to help you sell your music on jam.coop and learn more about the features you need to do so. Hit reply, let us know what you need and we'll get right back to you.

Do you love supporting artists? Have a listen to some of the music we have on jam already and keep an eye out for more. You can tell your favourite artists about us to - they can reach us any time at contact@jam.coop.

Thank you so much for your interest so far. We'd love to hear from you so reply to this email to share your thoughts.