Before being approached to operate ccMixter our business model focused around facilitating multi-level paid fan-club memberships. We still offer these at http://tunetrack.net/ and we expect that at least some ccMixter artists will want to try creating a fanclub.

Beyond that we want to help facilitate the dual licensing of creative commons content on ccMixter (as allowed by the artists), to help facilitate an intent of:

It’s cool to do what you want with my stuff so long as it’s free;
but if you make mone with it you have to share it with me.

CC licenses already well address the former statement, and we hope to enable the latter.

I think it’s a solid plan, but we are not arrogant enough to profess that it’s’ *THE* way for the artists and ourselves to make a living. We’re still just recently leaving a bit of a digital music dark age and I think we just want to help bring about it’s renaissance.

Now I am arrogant enough to say that the following elements are key to the success of any online musician or listener focused music site:

Rich Artwork, Liner Notes and Free Streams: http://tunetrack.net/emilyrichards/releases/one-or-ten/player/ (auto-plays music)

Full lyrics without abtrusive advertising: http://tunetrack.net/bradstanfield/releases/wizard/lyrics/2511-angels-are-crying-acoustic/

Wide variety of download formats, espescially lossless: http://tunetrack.net/emilyrichards/releases/you-give/