Music Distribution: Soundrop - thumbs down
In 2016 I found a new music distribution service, called LOUDR. They offered a subscription-free distribution of music and also took care of "cover" recordings, i.e. music composed by others. This seemed like a great idea for classical music which was still under copyright protection, because the composer was less than 70 years dead. And so I published a few such "cover" recordings, music by Hindemith, Prokofiev, Kodaly, Poulen. It seemed to work well, and I got monthly statements about the statistics. Not many listeners, the income was just pennies. But these contemporary classical music compositions are just not so popular. In the meantime, LOUDR changed their name to SOUNDROP . Fine with me. When I started to consider again publishing my music in Jan.2024, I created a new release there. There was now a fee for each track: $0.99 . OK, I did pay for 7 tracks. And then I waited. In previous years the release had happened quite fast. But now, nothing. There was the ...