[1][2][3] The site was used by musicians who were seeking greater exposure and critical insight provided by an audience of their peers.
Discover Music" program, giving exposure across over 400 of the company's FM station websites.
Entrance in the contest was either earned through reviewing the music of other members, or by paying a $19.99 per song submission fee.
Several GarageBand.com members who have charted well found subsequent music career success in the form of label deals, licensing and promotional opportunities.
Examples include 10 Years (signed to Universal Records) and American Idol finalist Bo Bice.
[9][10] Also that year, the company partnered with Microsoft for GarageBand members' music to be linked from MSN.com for download.
Later that month, the site owners took the website offline for a time, replacing it with a message explaining they did so in order to "preserve cash".
[5] As of 2013, the garageband.com domain is owned by Apple Inc. and redirects to the product page for their music software GarageBand.
Bill Machrone summarized, "GarageBand.com demands a lot of work, in the form of music reviews, from participants.