Yeah, I was thinking about that: the "published author" or "recording artist" both used to mean that _someone-not-yourself_ have believed so much in you that they are taking the up-front cost of ensuring your work gets out. But these days those terms mean...well, if not nothing so at least very little.
Yeah, for musicians the costs (after purchasing instruments of course) involves: studio time, unless you have your own facilities (which is actually more common these days than most people think, due to computers and software etc), possibly session musicians (unless you play it all yourself).
To complicate matters, the person who technically is the best to ensure a great recording of an instrument (get it to one "track" in the best possible quality) might not be the best to mix it, so you might need someone to mix/produce it (mixing all/many tracks to create a good balance). Finally you need someone to Master the recording (which really shouldn't be the person mixing it) which will make it sound great in all the possible listening media (car, radio, youtube, spotify, small speaker, large stereo etc).
Then you need someone to take promo photos, (re-)build the web site etc.
If you try to do it all yourself it is usually prone to not sounding great in the end. Sometimes it is "good enough" for the up-and-coming artist to be discovered, and as such a way to get a record deal with a label.
These days music recording tools in computers/iPads etc all have a "publish to YouTube/SoundCloud" button _right there_, and it gets used too often in my opinion (i.e. they get "published" before they should), simply because technology has become so accessible these days. IMHO it "floods" the market, and creates "noise" that can be difficult to sift through unless you're already a fan. Some electronic artists I know have 3000+ releases on their SoundCloud. No sane person keeps listening if the first 5 weren't to their liking. Finding the truly "releasable" ones can be impossible.
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