A musician website where the music moves the page
A musician’s site is usually a link-in-bio page with a row of logos, or a template where the music is an embedded player from somewhere else. It points people away — to Spotify, to Instagram — the moment they arrive.
Música is built around one release, and it plays it. Your cover becomes the scene: its bright parts turn into points of light, and they move with what’s actually playing — the kick makes it breathe, the high end makes it flicker. Scroll on and the light winds into a spinning record next to the tracklist, a halo round the places your music lives, a sea under your tour dates. The song is the design.
You add your MP3s and your cover in the browser, choose colours for each track, and download a folder of files that are yours. No monthly fee, no platform between you and the people listening.
What your site shows
The cover, made of light
Your artwork appears as thousands of points of light with your name and the release’s title over it. Press play and it starts to move with the track — not a loop, the actual sound.
The record and the tracklist
The light gathers into a record that spins beside the list of tracks, each with its length. Tap one and it plays; the whole page takes that track’s colours.
Where else it plays
Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, YouTube — written as words round a ring of light, each linking out. No logos, no embedded players, no calls to anyone else’s servers while the page loads.
The dates
The light lies flat like a sea at night under your concerts: date, city, venue and a tickets link, or “sold out”. With no dates, the section and its menu link disappear.
The notes and the list
A few paragraphs about you and the release, the credits as on a sleeve, then a sign-up for people who want to hear when there’s new music — the addresses arrive in your inbox.
Have this ready
- The release’s MP3s, one to twelve, in order, each under 25 MB — ten minutes at 320 kbps fits.
- The cover, square, 1,500 px or more — and, if it has text on it, the same art without the words.
- The title, whether it’s a single, an EP or an album, the release date and the label if there is one.
- The links where it’s also available, and your upcoming dates with their ticket links.
- A short bio and the credits: who wrote, produced, mixed, mastered, shot the cover.
- A booking email and a press email, and a free Web3Forms key for the newsletter sign-ups.
Worth knowing
Pick the cover for the light
The scene is made from the cover’s bright areas. Artwork with strong contrast — a light shape on a dark ground — moves beautifully; a flat, mid-grey cover gives the light little to work with. Try yours in the wizard before deciding.
Only music you can give away
Anything a page plays, a determined visitor can save. Put up the tracks you’re happy to share in full — the single, the EP — and keep what you’re selling on Bandcamp, linked from the platforms ring.
Use the sign-ups
Each sign-up is an email address someone gave you on purpose. Copy them into whatever you use to write to people, and write only when there’s something — a new song, a date near them.
Put the site where the listeners are
Put the address in your Instagram bio, on the Bandcamp page, in the video description and on the merch table. The site is where a curious listener gets the whole release in one place.
Questions
- Does it replace Spotify or Bandcamp?
- No. People still listen and buy there; the site plays your release in its own way and links to each platform. It gives you an address that is yours, doesn’t depend on an algorithm, and shows the music the way you want it seen.
- Does it work on phones?
- Yes, and phones show the track and the cover on the lock screen with play, pause and skip. On iPhone the light can pause while the page is in the background; it picks up as soon as you come back to it.
- Can I add the next release later?
- The site is built around one release. When the next one comes, you can open the wizard again, swap the tracks and cover, and publish the new version; or keep this one where it is and make another.
- What will it cost to keep online?
- Nothing, if you use Cloudflare Pages’ free plan as the included guide shows — MP3s up to 25 MB each are fine there. The kit is €500, once; a domain is optional.