Submissions

About Submissions

StillStream provides a free radio stream for its listeners, as a way to promote interest in ambient music as well as provide exposure for ambient artists.

We support all ambient artists. We base our music selection criteria on the quality of the music, the quality of the recording and production, and our own subjective impressions of the music - as well as the nature and number of tracks we currently have programmed. Further, each individual host chooses their own music for their shows.

We cannot guarantee that every track submitted will see airplay, nor can we estimate how long it will take for us to review each submitted track. We can guarantee, though, that we will eventually listen to every track submitted. Your patience is appreciated.

If we do not play a particular track on our station, please do not be discouraged or assume it means we didn't think the track was any good - it could simply be that it didn't match the format of our station or that there simply wasn't room enough for all the tracks we wanted to play. However, please do bear in mind that all decisions regarding what tracks we will play are in our sole discretion and are final.

About Music Licensing

It is important to note that StillStream does not pay royalties of any kind. We are able to play only that music that we are able to play legally and freely without any strings attached. We strongly support ambient artists and their right to profit by their music, but we believe that radio exposure has its own value and so playing music without fee is a fair approach, in particular for the ambient music genre.

Furthermore, we're a non-commercial station that loses money every month, and frankly we will never be able to afford to pay licensing fees anyway. We could try to raise funds by running ads or charging for listens, but feel very strongly that that would ruin our format and compromise our mission to bring exposure to ambient music and ambient artists. We want more listeners, not less!

Therefore, if you are an artist seeking to submit music to StillStream for airplay, we welcome you, but before we play your music we must ask for either a documented waiver of all licensing fees for your music, or some kind of notice that shows the music is available under Creative Commons. Follow the link at the bottom of this page if you would like to give us such permission.

Submission Process

If you would like to submit music to us for consideration, please use the following link:

We will process your submission as soon as possible. We receive many submissions each week, and we listen to every release, which takes a lot of time. Seriously, it may take us weeks or even months before we can get to your submission, depending on our backlog. Please be patient!