Studio Philharmonico

A new set of music files was ready, and I wanted to publish them online. These were piano improvisations which I had created many years ago (in 1999) but which I never had published. Live improvisations on piano. First I had in mind to revive my Tunecore account which I had  more than 10 years go and which I recently had re-activated. But when searching for the Tunecore sight, Google popped to me an ad titled "Still using Tunecore? Try MusicDiffusion". Later I saw a different ad by them: "Still using Soundrop?" It appears that MusicDiffusion are driving an aggressive advertisement campaign. User Verification So I decided to give them a try with my new release for MusiEmotica. The very first thing when trying to create an account and create a release was that I needed to be verified, with picture ID. They used an external site, I had to present my photo ID and a selfie with my mobile phone. Did work ok without any problems. Setting up my Release Then I set up my rele...

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 ...

Ditto Music www.dittomusic.com  Already many years ago I had tried Ditto Music, but I had not been impressed then, as there were many shortcomings and bug in the upload process. But now I decided to try them again. Their interface is sleek, and they offer more than 150 music distributers.  New Release: Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius I decided to use them with my new release of the "Karelia Suite" by Jean Sibelius, which I recently had completed to record. Here is my experience with that. Release Type First question: Standard release or electronic/dance release? Why would there be a difference? Should this not be taken into account with the Genre? I chose "Standard release". Genre Next problem: what genre? there is no "classical". The genre classification at Ditto seems to be very woke: there are 3 African and 7 Afro genres, and something exotic like "Original Pilipino Music", but nothing at all relating to classical music: no string quartet, no s...