I've probably overlooked some threads that would cover this but if so I've not searched for the right phrases.

I would like to put some of my musical creations on the internet where thay can be purchased at a modest price. I used to make cassettes in the "good old days" and then moved on to home produced CDs but it seems that everyone wants to get their music as downloads today according to the media.

I imagined that it would be possible to find a system that hosted the music files and allowed a download of them on receipt of payment from the downloader, passing on a percentage to me via Paypal or similar.

My ideal scenario would be to upload tracks to a hosting company and then just sit back and see if anyone downloaded them, and if so I would receive some payment automaically.

The hosting company would presumably do some minimal advertising and it would be mostly up to me to tell people that the tracks were there.

This could be extended to a web site belonging to me having links to the hosting web site.

Does this system exist?

If so how many versions of it exist and does anyone here use this sort of system?

Do you have to pay some form of set up charge or a charge for each track hosted? This might put me off the idea as I don't know if my creations will sell enough to be worth spending out in advance.

Over to you founts of knowledge.