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"Laundress", painting by Louise-Amélie Landré

French vintage postcard

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LANDR Distriburtion – My First Impressions

First of all, this is not sponsored content, but a true review from an independent artist and music producer. I leave reviews quite often if I think other people should also know the truth about things that others aren't talking about. In this post, I share with you my personal experience so far.

To produce many single releases per year, you need a reliable distributor who will get your music to platforms quickly and a quick response from the artist support service, so that any problems are solved as quickly as possible. These days, it's critical that music hits social platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok in a timely manner.

I recently decided to start releasing my new releases with LANDR, after CD Baby. CD Baby has been on the market for a long time and everything works well with them, although technical support takes a long time to respond. For example, I am currently waiting for a refund and want to withdraw my few dollars. A month has already passed, nothing has happened and support is silent -_- However, this is one family of Downtown Music Holdings, which also include CD Baby, FUGA, Songtrust, AdRev. If you didn't know, AdRev manages the YouTube ecosystem. And AdRev and FUGA work together to successfully pursue copyright claims for your music.

So, I decided to try LANDR, as they are currently offering interesting terms for distribution and promise 100% royalty income, while the release from CD Baby cost $10 and 9% from royalties. I purchased a subscription to LANDR, or rather, a PRO Distribution package. And at the time of writing this post, some of my tracks that I released through LANDR still haven't appeared on YouTube and TikTok. And this is a disaster for an independent artist, because social platforms are very important for the promotion of music, which I do alone.

In the course of contacting support, which delayed answers and ignored half of my questions, I learned a lot of interesting things. For example, that the promise in the answer and support for 24 hours is just words and in reality no one is in a hurry to help you and in fact they don't care either it was shown. I have to admit that support still responds faster than СD Baby support. But nevertheless, the problems are not solved for a very long time, and these problems are precisely on the LANDR side, not mine.

For example, I published the release early, about 3 weeks in advance. I planned it and after the release I waited a long time for half of my tracks to appear in the Instagram library. I wrote to support, they closed half of my appeals without a solution. While I was waiting for a solution, I decided to remove this release and re-release it as I thought it would help, and also decided to fix some small audio bugs.

After I re-released these tracks, for some reason they were no longer accepted into the YouTube Content ID System, even though they were there before. I was not allowed to release the same tracks under the old ISRC codes. Although I made small changes and it was a new upload audio, it was essentially the same. But I had to release it under new ISRC codes. This means that all the metadata has to be submitted again. This is just stupid because it could have been solved differently and it shows a lack of experience of LANDR in this matter. But wait! In response, technical support told me that it was FUGA that was rejected and did not allow these same tracks into the YouTube Content ID system. And now I find out for the first time that it turns out that FUGA is responsible for distribution, not LANDR, they only send them downloaded releases. And nowhere on the page of its website does LANDR warn us about this. And this means that if FUGA solves something in its own way, then LANDR's hands will simply be tied and they will not be able to solve your problem. And as a result, you will simply get an answer:

"We apologize for the inconvenience, however, the reviews from the aggregator and their direct contacts at YouTube are final."

In other words: We put you in front of the fact and that's it.

By the way, I specifically chose the PRO Distribution package, as it includes the ability to register tracks in the YouTube Content ID system, and indeed the tracks must meet the requirements. But okay. Let's assume that FUGA had a reason not to let the tracks into the YouTube Сontent ID system after the re-release. But a month has already passed and my tracks are still not in the YouTube and Tiktok system!

And again to these direct questions, why the tracks are not on the platforms and when they will be there and why you do not warn the artists that it is FUGA that operates the distribution and not you directly - I get a complete ignore.

I have no questions, the release hits all other platforms in almost 2 days, if you decide to release it quickly and without planning in advance. I released my last release this way. But there is also a problem with it, it has not been on YouTube and TikTok for a week. I planned a new release for the beginning of September and it appears that it has already been delivered and scheduled for the date on all platforms, but not TikTok and YouTube.

Also, the promised promo link provided by LANDR, the service is included in the package, is very slowly updated after the release. For example, after the first scheduled releases, it took 3 weeks from the day of publication to the release. In the first few days of the actual release and hot time to promote them, the promo links to them were still in PreSave status. And then it was updated for a few days until all links to all platforms appeared there, although the music had been on these platforms for a long time.

At this stage, already in the first month of cooperation, I can conclude that LANDR has little experience and is doing everything to destroy your plans for the release of music and spoil your promotional campaign. And when you explain it directly to the support service, all they can do is ignore your direct questions and apologize that this happened. I understand, I'm human and we all can make mistakes or do something wrong. But this is not lonely situation.

And in fact, it turns out that the support service is simply indifferent to you and your work. And on the forums of their site, I see how people write their dissatisfaction for the same reasons, the tracks are not on TikTok and YouTube for a very long time. How should I promote my music on YouTube and TikTok, if there are simply no such tracks there and I cannot attach them. Just absurd and shameful attitude towards artists on the part of LANDR. I understand that there is some artists for which only the music was on Spotify or was released at all in the world, and the rest they just don't care. But I know this kitchen and understand how important it all is.

So, I'm disappointed. I have nothing left but to leave such a review about them. Its not easy to make money in my life situation especially at a time like this (I live in Ukraine), and if it's not a problem for someone, $45 a year is an investment for me. And I'm serious about my music and releases and I'm looking ahead and planning a lot of things. And this kind of attitude from the people you trusted is just a slap in the face.

If the distributor does not perform its basic functions, which it offers and which it sells, then why does it do it at all? Good question, right? And now I don't know what to do. Should I continue to stay with LANDR or what should I do next? After all, I am serious about releasing music and looked at a lot of distributors with different conditions and LANDR seemed to me to be the best choice these days. But in reality, it turns out that you were given a pig as a tempting offer.

Please write your thoughts on this topic. Maybe there are people among you who have been releasing music through a some distributor for many years, turned to support fast with no problems and withdrew money, and everything is fine with you? Please share it.

[sixtreemusic]

The Mastering Maze: Navigating Your Music's Final Frontier

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[weirdlookindog]

The Vampire (1957)

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The brain rot is so massive I'm now considering a fire watchtower au set in France, either late XX century or on the first half of the 2000s. Where vampires are of course still a thing. Mizrak takes the job as a fire watcher for summer after a conflict within his church, following Emmanuel's advice to get away for a bit. Olrox is already there working for reasons I won't share in case I ever write this. They are separated by miles, of course, their towers spread apart as they start talking in the evenings before the sun sets using walkie talkies (Olrox is on night shift, of course). Job related convos that quickly get personal. Mizrak the fools starts getting attached, maybe out of loneliness over rarely seeing other people (except the ocasional hikers or the park ranger, who would be Annette in this AU), maybe out of other desires. Olrox irks him, yet there's a weird pull in there, something he can't quite describe. Annoying as much as it is comforting. A voice, nothing else, yet what a voice it is. He wonders what body it is attached to. He starts losing focus doing prayer, ears always alert for the static of the device, the call of his name. He pretends it's because he doesn't want to be distracted in case a fire starts spreading.

Of course they have walkie talkie sex at some point before ever seeing each other, too. Long talks as well, because the show barely has them interacting yet I think their chats would be oh so fun to write.

But of course, vampires still exist. Mizrak slowly notices there are weird things happening in the forest. Something is not quite right, not quite normal. Eventually, he figures out Olrox is not quite right either.

Castlevania Nocturne is such a short show. Why am I wanting to write such a character heavy fanfic when we barely know these men's backgrounds.

[artschoolglasses]

Watch, Pierre Landre, 1630-40

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Meg Randall-George Montgomery "Last of the badmen" 1957, de Paul Landres.

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On November 7, 1958, The Return of Dracula debuted in London, England.

Here's a new drawing of Francis Lederer as the iconic Count!

[roseblack2222]

Baron Landred

Onward with the Creepypasta narration binge. This time it's the criminally underrated @BaronLandred

Who strikes a certain smoothness with his reading voice.

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[weirdlookindog]

The Return of Dracula (1958)

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Costume includes:

• Long Sleeve Bodysuit Dress

• Waist Belt with Sheer Train Attached

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[brevemusicstudios]

Choosing The Best Music Distributor (2023)

Choosing a music distributor has never been easier. Gone are the days when musicians had to rely on record labels to get their music out to their listeners.

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