Bandportals to Offer Artists K-AMP Web Music Player and Song Manager

K-AMP Player is now available to artists and labels who wish to stream and conveniently manage their own music on the web.

Bandportals to Offer Artists K-AMP web music player and Song Manager

New York, NY -- November 25, 2003 - In partnership with Bandportals, K-AMP Player is now available to artists and labels who wish to stream and conveniently manage their own music on the web. K-AMP Player, can be heard by anyone from a users desktop using a web browser and without the need for any media player applications.

K-AMPs Song Manager solution, which is accessed thru a web browser requires little effort to customize, maintain and update. Bandportals, Lou Parmelee states, The industry needed an alternative way for artists and labels to manage their streaming music."

The K-AMP player solution was developed by Mario Klark Kent" Laugell of K-Lab, Frankfurt, Germany. K-AMP is designed for music rights owners to manage their own streaming music using the K-AMPs Song Manager, which can be easily accessed and administered from any computer. With its seamless and dynamic delivery of tracks pre-loaded in FlashMX, users now have more on-demand control to listen to tracks or entire collections. Each K-AMP is branded to an artist or label (group of artists) and can be implemented in a variety of ways such as being added (or embedded) into existing websites, blogs, and bulletin boards. Or it can be simply launched as a separate pop-up player for continued listening away from an artists website. Its a perfect compliment for sites that sell CDs or downloads so that listeners can preview tracks before purchasing.

Bandportals is introducing the K-AMP to the market by allowing potential clients to try out the web-based Song Manager for themselves to see how easy it is to upload their music and customize the various play features. Jim Coffman of Bandportals says It couldnt be any easier for bands with little or no tech skills to control and deliver quality streams to their fans." Webmasters now have the tools to create a variety of delivery options using K-Amp by either adding it into their existing sites or syndicating the player through affiliated artist fansites and blogs enabling those sites to incorporate K-AMP.

K-AMP's Song Manager has a variety of options that control play features including loops, auto-play, track order, and ticker. While it delivers a streaming music file to users, files are never stored or downloaded which means that the average user will not have access to the source file or access point to share. K-AMP has its own play monitoring system which can determine how many times a given song is played and also the number of times its played in its entirety. Knowing what tracks are most popular from an artists core fan base could play a part in choosing tracks when planning radio campaigns, especially follow-up singles.

K-AMP provides a variety of choices and options to deliver music as well as create e-commerce opportunities. In addition to placement on artist or label websites, K-AMP can be embedded on affiliate or fansites like a banner ad including blogs and bulletin boards. Using the Song Manager this viral model can include Buy" links which can be placed to correspond with each song within K-AMP so that users can be directed to pay download sites (i.e. I-tunes) or e-commerce sites (i.e. Amazon.)

K-AMP is an alternative solution to costly administration, confusing software and hosting concerns, adopting a new standard in steaming audio and song management.

About Bandportals
Bandportals was started mid 2002 to focus on delivering practical, effective web solutions and artist development services designed to support music artists at all levels. Bandportals can closely monitor, maximize and support a clients existing resources (and staff) for any campaign or project through its various services.