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First get an Anytist Code. This is basically just a value code that gives you the right to download a set number of songs. Click here to go to the page where you can buy such a code. There is also a link to this 'buy code' page in the My Downloads section of the website.
Then use the Discover Music section of the website to browse and search for songs to buy. Once you have decided for a specific song, click on 'buy' next to it. You will receive a confirmation screen that lists the song you have selected and asks for an Anytist code to 'charge'. Enter your code and press "Pay for songs". Now a 'Download' link will appear next to the song. Upon clicking this link you should get a download dialog and be able to chose where to save the song.
In addition to buying individual songs, you can also click the 'buy' link next to an album to buy all songs in that album.
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An Anytist Code is basically just a value code that gives you the right to download a set number of songs. You buy an Anytist Code for 5, 10, 25, or 50 songs. Upon selecting songs to buy you will be prompted to enter this code, and 'credits' will be deducted.
You can access information about songs you have bought with a specific code in the My Downloads section of the website. By accessing this page you can change your ratings of songs you have bought, or re-download them (if still within 24h of the first time you clicked 'download' on them).
The reason we use Anytist Codes is that one cannot allow credit card payments for separate songs; it would give overwhelming credit card fees.
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The Artists themselves retain copyright of the music being sold on this website. We do not ask for any kind of copyright transfer agreement or similar (which is common when artists sign up for record deals). All we ask for is the right to duplicate and distribute individual copies of the songs, until the artist retracts that right. (And if that happens the song will no longer be distributed by us, but listeners who downloaded the song keeps their rights to it).
A listener that 'buys a song' does that on similar terms as when buying e.g. a book. The rights for this are mostly regulated by normal copyright law. Typically when something is bought under copyright, you get the rights to use it yourself, but not to freely copy and re-distribute it; barring some exceptions referred to as "fair use".
We support listeners in exercising their "fair use" rights. We do not use any technical means or access controls to prevent duplication, but rather distribute the music as regular mp3-files. We just trust the majority of our listeners to be fair and do their best to support the artists of the music they listen to.
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We distribute regular .mp3-files. We do not employ any kind of "digital rights management" (DRM) for copy- or distribution-protection. Fundamentally, we do not believe in any software or hardware system that limits a listener's capability to exercise so called "fair use" rights of copyrighted material. Rather, given our low price model, and the fact that most money goes directly back to the artists, we trust that most users will want to do the right thing and support the artists.
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The tools we provide to help users find music they like are:
There are no 'professional critics' or similar on the website telling you what to like or not. The philosophy will always be to let the community and/or artists themselves rate the available music.
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To end users the price for a song is typically somewhere between €0.3 to just below €0.4, including VAT and transaction fees.
The majority of this money, and thus the largest cut, always goes back to the Artists themselves. Each time a song is bought, €0.2 is credited the Artist of that song. The fact that the majority of the total amount of money a listener spends goes to the Artists is in significant contrast to e.g. CDs, where typically the Artists' cut is but a tiny fraction of the total price.
The second largest part is the Swedish VAT (25%) that we have to add to all sales within the EU tax region. This thus comes to about €0.08. As you know, this pays for things like hospitals, schools, elders, and day care in Sweden. (Well, that, and the ineffective system of bureaucracy ...).
Depending on what choice of code you buy (i.e. how many songs), a part varying between €0.08 and €0.02 goes to our payment service, Paypal (presumably a rather large part of this is passed on to the credit card companies and/or your bank).
What is left, roughly €0.05 / song (or about one forth of the cut that goes to the artists), goes to the maintenance of this website, payment for the Internet bandwidth for the download of songs and demos, marketing, and further development of our service. Should there be anything left after this (we have not yet turned into profit), this will supposedly be distributed as a sort of 'salary' to us who work with the website.
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Yes, it is. We act as a distributor of music from people that voluntarily sign on. We do not knowingly sell and/or distribute any "illegal" music.
Naturally, there may appear situations where an Artist makes available a song that someone else claims copyright to. In that case, promptly inform us about the situation using the abuse links on the website. If we find that there indeed are trouble with a song we will block it from further distribution. Depending on the situation, the Artist or the complainant may feel that the situation requires legal action towards the opposite part. However, as far as possible, Anytist will stay out of such conflicts.
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For just casual browsing without the use of any specific service, we
rely on the following disclaimer:
"Anytist acts as a service provider for music distribution and
does not accept liability for user contributed material (e.g. songs and
comments). Activities at the Anytist website are governed by our terms of
service under Swedish law.
(More info...)
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To use the public forums at the 'Anytist Community' section of our
website you have to agree to
The Anytist Community Terms of Service.
To buy an Anytist code for purchasing music
you have to agree to
The Anytist Discover Music Terms of Service.
To be allowed to sell your music through our website you have to agree to
The Anytist Artists Terms of Service.
These agreements and your activites at the Anytist website are goverened by Swedish law.
If you bought your code via a credit card or Paypal payment, contact us
at 
and include a copy of your Paypal email receipt.
If you bought your code via SMS, first check the SMS log on your phone
and see if you cannot find the code SMS there. If not, contact us
at
and include the cell phone number of the phone you sent the SMS from, and an
approximate date and time of the code purchase.
You buy songs using an Anytist Code. (This is basically just a value code that gives you the right to download a set number of songs.)
To check at what status you left your song purchase, enter your Anytist code at the My Downloads section of the website. You will then get to a similar view as when you buy new songs, but showing all the songs you have paid for with that code.
In this view you can download songs whose download links have not yet expired. You can also change your ratings of the songs freely, as many times as you wish.
If you are missing songs from your last music purchase in this view, then credits for those songs have not been deducted from your code. You can thus simply try to purchase those songs again.
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Anytist acts as a service provider for music distribution and does not accept liability for user contributed material (e.g. songs and comments). Activities at the Anytist website are governed by our terms of service under Swedish law. (More info...)
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