Now that you're on MySpace, you're getting some positive attention from people on the Internet, and you want to try making a little money from your music. It's time to try to find a record company, right? There's no other way to sell your music on the Internet, right? Wrong. Anyone can have their music placed on iTunes. How, you ask? TuneCore.

TuneCore (www.tunecore.com) is a service that charges you a series of small fees to place your music on iTunes, Napster, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, and eMusic, among others. It's pretty simple. As of this printing, TuneCore charges you 99¢ for each track you want to sell, and 99¢ per store you want to put your songs on. They also charge $19.98 per album to maintain the album on their servers for one year. So, if you were to make a ten-song album that you wanted to place on ten of the stores that TuneCore has access to, it would cost you $9.90 to upload your ten tracks to TuneCore. Then it would cost an additional $9.90 to put the album on the ten stores you selected. Finally, add in the yearly $19.98 maintenance fee. That comes to a grand total of $37.98 for distribution of your album! All royalties go to you. If you want to have your album up for another year, it just costs another $19.98 for maintenance.

One thing to be aware of: you must upload your music to TuneCore in WAV format. If you recorded your music to AIFF, you can convert your music to WAV using iTunes. Just change the Import Setting to WAV and add you your AIFF files into your iTunes Library.