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Sorting out stuff for the new album I just realised I can use #DistroKid to protect my work on social media using the "ContentID" option, select "Discovery Pack" so song recognition apps like Shazam etc can identify my songs, but I can untick ALL the platforms at the top, so I don't actually distribute it to any streaming platforms.
This means it will be exclusively only available on #Bandcamp and #Mirlo but my #YouTube videos will be protected 👍
never realised I could do that before
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rn1MbsB1PSiIHtXvyEniG
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full version on Spotify
& New content on Pay Hip
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---------------------------------#beats #hiphop #drums #music #albums #rap #lofi #spotify #distrokid #youtube #jazz #lyrics #songs #remix
#beats #hiphop #drums #music #albums #rap #lofi #spotify #distrokid #youtube #jazz #lyrics #songs #remix #instrumentals #bass #playlist #oldschoolhiphop #oldschool -
We released a new single on the usual streaming suspects! Listen to 'New York' here:
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"Summer Solstice" is a 19-minute psychedelic rock suite in retro style that describes a summer day.
1. The Last Hours Of The Night
2. Daybreak And Sunrise
3. Midday
4. After The Rain
5. Sunset - The Day Is GoneLucy Malheur: vocals, keyboards, guitars
Rüdiger Blömer: violins, keyboards
Howie Franke: guitars
Manna Meurer: guitars
Christoph Hinners: guitars
Steve Turnbull: bass
Allan Craig: drums#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #psychedelicrock #distrokid
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXu24fYPRwsxfcLXOHpK8AJ2ACotObAFC
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7th and last "Summer Solstice" preview: "Sunset - The Day Is Gone".
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic -
6th preview - "After The Rain"
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic -
5th preview - "Midday", part 2
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic -
4th preview - "Midday", part 1
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic -
.. 3rd "Summer Solstice" preview - a little dreamy this time. 🙂
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic -
... and this is a preview of part 2 of "The Last Hours Of The Night" - I'm sure this will wake you up. Enjoy :-)
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic
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"Summer Solstice" is a concept album that describes a summer day as I have often experienced it. It begins with the last hours of the night and ends with sunset the following evening. This is the first preview.
#lucymalheur #summersolstice #progrock #distrokid #psychedelic
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Important info for #music #producers :
Comparing the worst #distributor terms
#MusicProduction
#Landr #Distrokid #Tunecore #Toolost
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q-SEYX7nMc&si=HM8eICaSh8PwJB5c -
Important info for #music #producers :
Comparing the worst #distributor terms
#MusicProduction
#Landr #Distrokid #Tunecore #Toolost
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q-SEYX7nMc&si=HM8eICaSh8PwJB5c -
Important info for #music #producers :
Comparing the worst #distributor terms
#MusicProduction
#Landr #Distrokid #Tunecore #Toolost
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q-SEYX7nMc&si=HM8eICaSh8PwJB5c -
Important info for #music #producers :
Comparing the worst #distributor terms
#MusicProduction
#Landr #Distrokid #Tunecore #Toolost
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5q-SEYX7nMc&si=HM8eICaSh8PwJB5c -
Collab of the year and to date one of the most successful tracks on my Spotify!
Massive thanks to Heartbeat Designers for getting me on the collab train with this one. Heaps of fun.
https://link.badidol.de/anymore
#badidol #rmx #collab #heartbeatdesigners #synthpop #spotify #amazonmusic #itunes #tidal #anymore #collaboftheyear #distrokid -
Collab of the year and to date one of the most successful tracks on my Spotify!
Massive thanks to Heartbeat Designers for getting me on the collab train with this one. Heaps of fun.
https://link.badidol.de/anymore
#badidol #rmx #collab #heartbeatdesigners #synthpop #spotify #amazonmusic #itunes #tidal #anymore #collaboftheyear #distrokid -
Finally used my VPN to connect to USA for the first time as #DistroKid emailed me to tell me my music was live on iHeartRadio which isn't available in the UK for some reason.
I would never have thought I sound like the 'similar artists' iHeart says I sound like -
Oh Christmas Time
OH CHRISTMAS TIME Album Drop | Album Merch, and Black Friday Sale!https://anewseries.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/oh-christmas-time/
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Oh Christmas Time
OH CHRISTMAS TIME Album Drop | Album Merch, and Black Friday Sale!https://anewseries.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/oh-christmas-time/
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Oh Christmas Time
OH CHRISTMAS TIME Album Drop | Album Merch, and Black Friday Sale!https://anewseries.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/oh-christmas-time/
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Oh Christmas Time
OH CHRISTMAS TIME Album Drop | Album Merch, and Black Friday Sale!https://anewseries.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/oh-christmas-time/
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Oh Christmas Time
OH CHRISTMAS TIME Album Drop | Album Merch, and Black Friday Sale!https://anewseries.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/oh-christmas-time/
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NEW ALBUM DROP 🎵⚜️🫠💖🎶❤️ OH CHRISTMAS TIME now available
#contentcreator #singer #songwriter #musicartist #composer #ohchristmastime #anewdawn #thundersreign #distrokid #AMP144 #tiffanygaines #publicist #blog #ChristmasAlbum
#HolidayMusic
#ChristmasSongs2025
#NewChristmasMusic
#Christmas
#ThunderReignChristmas
Are you thinking of nostalgic
family memories at this time of the year?
missing loved ones?
childhood magic?
faith?
winter nights?
cold weather comfort?https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/anewdawn1/oh-christmas-time/
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@Rozzychan I do indeed, it's a copy/pasta from a few years ago, but the info is still true, so here it is from the initial post.
For my latest release entitled 'a Moment of Solitude', I decided to build down towards a state of calm. Starting out with up-beat grooves and rhythmic elements, by the last few tracks it's relaxed, drum-free and hopefully puts you in a place of contemplation and thoughtfulness.
On #Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5oORtTKGCiUEuiZajGEO2H?si=Ut3OPwZ-TW6UUaHPuyRG5A
On #AppleMusic: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/a-moment-of-solitude/1681923263
The #Youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2Z3csZI5KPYnA4CljHiFcYI6iMrA34Mo
The #Distrokid #Hyperfollow page: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andrelouis/a-moment-of-solitude
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Me he dado de baja de #distrokid
He subido de momento uno (1) de mis discos a través de otro distribuidor (con un único pago por release) a:
- todas las plataformas excepto spotify
- para todos los países excepto israelA ver qué sale. Al menos palmaré menos pasta.
Os recuerdo que podéis escuchar mi #música (y adquirirla pagando lo que consideréis justo) en:
- #bandcamp https://choan.bandcamp.com/
- #mirlo https://mirlo.space/choan-galvez/releasesSi sois usuarios de #soulseek también me encontraréis ahí.
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Are there any good primers for independent musicians to distribute music? I've heard of Bandcamp, TuneCore, and DistroKid, but there are probably more and I'm not sure what the pitfalls of each are. Thanks!
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If you release music and wish to stop relying on HyperFollow and other services, I released this music one-page generator today. It's very simple and doesn't have many features, but I might add some more style outputs in the future.
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What is the Cost of War? If You’re a Child of Agent Orange it May Cost You close to 30k. Project Project Captain Eye Drops on 9/16.
What is the Cost of War? If You're a Child of Agent Orange it May Cost You close to 30k. Project Project Captain Eye Drops on 9/16. […] -
The short answer is: apparently forever. Quick stats, 124 separate messages over the span of 10 months. My music will be deleted! Update my credit card or DOOM... or whatever. On to eternity.
Automated systems, man.
Anyway. Done for realz. I feel a little bit of dumb shame that I thought this was valuable when I started.
Full disclosure: I made $1.47 after 4 years of streaming, with a total of 127k impressions. That is ONE dollar and 47 cents.
Yeah, I'm not breaking through any major walls here, but 127k feels not insignificant, until you try and define what an "impression" is. Meaningless.
This is paying people to chase dumb.
Significantly more listeners (and friends made) with #bonkwave and mastodon chats. The internet as maybe imagined, real.
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Notification from #distrokid
#snazify says it has flagged one of my tracks for artificial streamings and accordingly, has removed the release that contains it.
I actually removed all my releases from #spotify a few months ago.
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PRE-SAVE NOW Available for “War of the Souls Night”🌙
Click Photo to Pre-Save NOW
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Get your Mood Swings here! (J/K – #Listen to the suite) #distrokid #moodmusic #music
Get your Mood Swings here! (J/... -
Get your Mood Swings here! (J/K – #Listen to the suite) #distrokid #moodmusic #music https://muz4now.com/2021/get-your-mood-swings-here-j-k-listen-to-the-suite
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Do you like space, weird sounds, and drums? Time for some electronic music! I made it in my lab.
My new drum and bass song Event Horizon is out now. 😁
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Five years ago today I released one of my more unusual EP's called Ambiental. It's a strange mix of vocals, sliding noises and long evolving chords. Great for relaxing, meditation, or just to put on in the background and forget about it. Available on all the usual streaming platforms and distributed via #DistroKid. https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andrelouis/ambiental
Alt-text courtesy of #BeMyAI -
Distributors to Avoid
[This is an excerpt from a chapter of The Human Guide to Doing Music Online by @kit]
Now that all the decent-to-good options are out of the way, there are two particular less-than-decent cases that I feel strongly enough about to name. These are just my own personal thoughts, though, formed purely through my own observations, so I encourage you to do your own research and form your own conclusions instead of just taking my word for it. These are not accusations or assertions of fact.
In my opinion, you should avoid DistroKid.
Even if you hadn’t heard of any of the other distributors mentioned so far, you’ve probably heard of this one. DistroKid is responsible for an absolutely monumental amount of the music on the market, and they are very good at marketing, which then snowballs even further due to their referral program giving its customers a financial incentive to recommend the platform to others. That program is so widely taken advantage of that there are YouTube videos dedicated exclusively to talking about making money through DistroKid referrals rather than from music.
Credit where it’s due, they are also responsible for popularizing the “pay us a flat subscription fee and keep 100% of your royalties” business model among distributors. Which may be a good thing, at least on some level. But now just about every other distributor does it better than they do. The fact that DistroKid did a relatively good thing once should not hold their reputation up as much as it seems to.
You know what else they’re responsible for? Having an automated system so intensely bad that tons of artists and labels have found themselves unceremoniously kicked off the platform “due to editorial discretion” without warning or explanation, because the over-reliance on automation with virtually zero human oversight allowed an algorithm to decide that their music wasn’t real, or was fraudulent, or was “poor quality”, and to take action without any human intervention. For most of these people, customer support offered no help, if they even managed to get in contact with a human at all.
And on that topic, DistroKid has some of the worst customer support I’ve ever seen in my life. Not just for a music distributor, I mean overall. It’s absurdly difficult to speak to a human if you have problems, to the point that the most reliable way to get an actual human to actually help you is the same as it is with YouTube. Make the issue public on social media – probably Reddit in this case – and either have a large enough audience or get a large enough response that you can’t be ignored.
Part of the reason for this is because the company is very small despite having an absolutely gargantuan number of clients, and since the whole platform is designed to be as hands-off as possible, automated in every possible way, you get a bot for support instead of a team of human beings. An interesting side effect of this is that unless your music is in the top 10% of earners, it may actually be more financially beneficial for DistroKid to simply kick you off the platform than it is for them to help you. I’m sure they don’t actually just boot people when they need support that the bot can’t offer… but they certainly seem to have more incentive to consider such an action than any other distributor mentioned here.
All of that and I haven’t even mentioned the ridiculous number of upsells and comical hidden fees, the fact that your music will all be taken down if your subscription lapses unless you pay an extravagant extra fee per release (which is still no guarantee, according to some!), the fact that many people have had their releases simply never come out for reasons unknown, or the fact that Spotify owns a significant stake in the company. And I could have left it at that, but on top of it all, they pulled a real slam dunk by aggressively union-busting while attempting to fire their support and QA teams.
Now, in my opinion, you should also avoid Ditto.
DistroKid should be avoided because it’s overly automated, full of extra fees, and support is abysmal. Ditto meanwhile, has all the same problems as DistroKid does, all to a worse degree, plus some extra (particularly bad) problems of its own like frequent metadata errors, without the extreme reliance on automation. At least DistroKid has a flimsy excuse for a lot of its shortcomings, but Ditto doesn’t even have that much.
I’ll give them credit for one thing, though. They’re even better at marketing than DistroKid. They’d have to be, what else could explain how they somehow still seem to have an almost positive reputation despite the glaring issues? Of course, that marketing only applies to the company, not the artists.
While there is definitely a mountain of issues I could talk about, most of them are the same as DistroKid, related to the behavior of certain individuals outside of the company context, or not actually worth enough to spell out individually here. There is only one specific, major issue I’m going to bring up, and that is the issue of missed payments. Many, many artists working with Ditto have talked about not getting paid all of what they’re owed, or simply not being paid at all, sometimes for months at a time, and these stories keep happening. Not a lot of them end well.
With those two out of the way, I have one more simple warning for you. Avoid any distributor that claims any ownership of any of your rights. That’s some shady business.
[Read The Human Guide to Doing Music Online in full]
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Hey peeps, since many of us are here as an alternative to big corporations, if you also care about the people who make #music, reminder that spotify barely (doesnt) pay small musicians, but you have alternatives like qobuz.com which are transparent and pay per-stream.
Some small data: in the last year #distrokid collected 4.03€ from my album #streaming
#Spotify - 0.00€
#Youtube - 0.26€
#AppleMusic - 0.34€
#Qobuz - 3.09€
+some little money from other #streamingplatforms
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Track 2: Mistakes were made
This is a love song of sorts, dealing with a relationship amongst two people who bring the worst out of each other. It’s about hating the person you became in that relationship and how you both said awful things to hurt one another despite the love for each other it’s sometimes better to let go
#emo #punk #acoustic #poppunk #distrokid #diy #diyartist #unsignedartist #unsignedartists #unsigned #indie
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So first #TuneCore, now #YouTube. They are trying to scrap from our art, creativity and potential income making datasets for sale, without even giving us a single penny. Please be intelligent, do not allow a single step over your rights with this predatory and misleading companies. #DistroKid , #CDBaby probably will try to do the same over the next years.
@[email protected] @musicproduction @[email protected] #musicindustry #AI #IA #industriadelamusica #dataset #datascraping @radicalmusic
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busybee: fluffy rambles: Music progress and upcoming shows! https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/10046-Music-progress-and-upcoming-shows #Transitions #Novembeat #DistroKid #Concerts #TooLost #VRChat #Music #Choir #Blog #Busy
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Gotta new single coming out next Friday called "¿Dónde está Don Francisco?"
Go presave it on Spotify!!!
#presavelinkinbio
#presavetospotify #synthpunk #synthwave #darksynth #melodichardcore #digitalpunk #distrokid #punk #skatepunk #chiptunepunk #mastomusic -
When I uploaded #TheCrypt to #DistroKid and had to choose its genre, "Ambient" was not listed, so the closest genre I could find was "Holiday" as it's a #Halloween-themed release and I considered Halloween to be a "holiday".
However, I didn't realise that their definition of "Holiday" meant Christmas, and now both #AppleMusic and #Qobuz have my dark ambient track listed as "Christmas music" :MOULE_Ha:
