Metalabel is free to join for independent artists, labels, and users. Register as an artist, regular member/scout, or label. You choose whether you want to be an artist, scout or label by editing your profile after you sign up.

Register, log in and edit your profile to enter your label information. Invite your friends, fans and business contacts. If you are incorporated in the United States, we will require your tax id number.

As of April 23, 2008, labels can choose between paying a flat annual fee for an unlimited number of sales for any or all of their artists, or sharing a percentage of each sale. The flat annual fee varies according to the number of artists the label is distributing through Metalabel.

The unlimited sales option requires that the fee be paid before affiliated artists can upload music to our servers.

Otherwise, 80 percent of the sales price goes to the label. Music costs $1 per track and $10 per album.

After label registration, register artists individually and upload music to site.

See the “For Artists” section directly below for further information about registration and site features.

Register, log in and edit your profile to fill in the artist information. Invite your friends, fans and business contacts, then upload your music as 256K AAC, Apple Lossless Audio, FLAC, or 320K MP3 audio files. you'll have a chance while uploading your music to add cover art and liner notes, and then you’re in business. Check your stats to chart your sales and downloads.

All music is DRM-free.

As of April 23, 2008, artists can choose between paying a flat annual fee for an unlimited number of sales or sharing a percentage of each sale. The annual fee is $200. Otherwise, 80 percent of the sales price goes to the artist. Music costs $1 per track and $10 per album.

Metalabel asserts no rights to your music. Metalabel is nonexclusive. You can sell your music anywhere you like.

The statistics features track your sales, event RSVPs, friends, and royalties.

Invite your friends and fans to join, and help build a community for people who love great independent music.

Register, log in, and invite your friends. it’s that simple.

You and your friends communicate and discover new music in an environment free of advertising, confusing interfaces, and spam!

Post events, bulletins, music reviews and blogs, and forums that are seen by the community and the entire web.

Support independent music and artists with every purchase you make.

Register, log in, edit your profile and click the scout box. Invite your friends.

Recommend the site to artists you like.

Post events and track RSVPs.

Win great prizes.

If you're just looking around, welcome to Metalabel!

Obviously, we want everyone to see what we’re about, so guests who are not logged in can view the info, the FAQ, and the about us pages.

All artists’ and scouts’ public profile pages can be viewed by guests who are not logged in. No other users’ public profiles can be viewed by guests who are not logged in.

If you are not logged in, you can also read our members’ public bulletins, music reviews, and public events.

The STATIC discussion forum is also open to the public.

All our members have their own RSS feeds, which are visible to the Internet and which are composed of their public music reviews, bulletins and events as well. The Metalabel RSS Feed compiles all the publicly viewable events, bulletins, and music reviews, as well as the Metalabel Blog. Of course, this RSS feed is public.

You have to use the registration form. After you log in you should edit your profile. Most of the information is optional, but of course the more information you give us, the better we can serve you. For instance, by sending you events and bulletins of interest to you in your geographical area. Your information is safe with us, by the way. Read our basic policies.

You can upload a profile picture, choose a nickname, choose a password, tell us what you want to appear under your profile picture, tell us what you want to appear on your public home page, tell us your favorite genres, what genres of music you make, all that stuff. If you don’t choose a profile picture, you will be represented with one of our dusty old album covers!

In order to buy music on Metalabel, you must register using the registration form, and then you must log in. See the entry up above. Then, you have to buy credit on our credit page. After doing so, you will see your “bank” in green in the horizontal navigation bar. You can then buy songs or albums, in the store pages, from the Metalabel Player, or from other users’ playlists.

To sell music there are two steps.

1. Register, log in and edit your profile to fill in your artist information. First, check the box that says you want to sell your music with Metalabel. Then another set of form fields will appear. Check the box that says you agree to the artist terms of use. Type the name of the person authorized to sell your music in the “Signatory” field. This will probably be you, thus your name. Enter your group name, and finally, select a genre and subgenre if you wish.

When you check the box that says you want to sell your music with us, you will notice that some of the form fields above it become highlighted in yellow. More information is required for artists, like your real name, your address, etc. We need this information for financial purposes, i.e., to pay you and to keep our tax and other records.

2. The second step is to look on your private homepage. My homepage, for instance, is http://metalabel.com/users/amiri.html. You can't see mine, and no one can see yours either. Your page will have your name instead of mine. In the left-hand column, you will see a list of options with which you manage your Metalabel account. One option is “Your Music.” If you click that link, you will be taken to a page that displays current tracks, and allows you to upload new tracks for sale.

In the upload section, you will see, clearly marked, what fields are required and which are optional. You can create an album out of multiple file uploads or you can upload a collection of singles. You can upload cover art for one album, which will then be copied to each of its songs, or you can upload individual cover art for each track in a collection of singles.

After uploading your music, which can take a while, because of upload speed and processing time, you are ready to sell your music. Tell your fans where to find it—http://metalabel.com/yourname.html—and go gigging!

Almost everything that you want to do on Metalabel is listed in the left-hand column of your private home page, i.e., http://metalabel.com/users/yourname.html. Think of this as your control panel. You can create content, upload music, make events, check statistics (if you are an artist or a scout), modify your visible playlist, edit your profile (almost everything can be changed), upload photos to your photo album, etc. You can even totally delete your account. We don’t save your data like some other social networks. You can really delete all of it.

What we call the “private homepage” is where your “control panel” resides. This is where you can change your information, create content, and manage your account. Its URL has the form http://metalabel.com/users/yourname.html. It is where you go when you click the “yourname (Home)” link in the horizontal navigation bar. No one else can see this. It is private.

The “public profile” is what everyone sees when they go to a URL of the form http://metalabel.com/yourname.html. You can use this URL across the Internet anywhere you like. Everyone can see it. If you are an artist, your music will be listed there, along with a Metalabel Player loaded with your songs available for purchase. All your comments will appear there. Your playlist will appear there. Your events, photo album, and other content you create will appear there. You can take a look at your own public profile by going to your private home page and clicking "View Your Profile."

If you haven't already, register, log in and edit your profile. Then, go to the metalabel creation page.

You will see clearly how you can select artists from one or all genres for your metalabel. Name it, give it a profile picture or video, and save!

Your metalabel will be visible on the public list of metalabels, and you will see an administrative area on your private homepage where you can edit its details. Each metalabel has its own photo album and blog, so you can manage and create those as well. The music of all the artists you selected will appear on your metalabel’s public profile.

Invite your friends to check it out! Metalabels can be rated, and we plan to have contests soon!