Comments on: Exploring The Digital Music Distribution ‘Jungle’

By: Jorge Fusaro

Jorge Fusaro — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:21:34 +0000

Hello! I apologize for my comment (a bit off topic on this post, which by the ways is really helpful). I helped produced an artist last year and before we launched the full-length CD became available online every store in the world!

I am hoping someone in the community can give me some tips to track who pirated the music. I don't know where to begin.

Thank you very much!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:35:19 +0000

It's a shame that CDBaby's submission service is broken right now and has been broken for 6 weeks. I have been told that it might be up in 4 weeks.

I loved CDBaby for years, and now am reading this article so I can learn which company I'll be switching to – forever.

By: Kiley Thompson

Kiley Thompson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:20:09 +0000

Incredible resource list, as I'm up to my eyeballs with anger with the two digital distributors i work with right now (cdbaby and feiyr). WHATEVER YOU DO, don't use Feiyr's mastering service. You can't download or approve the final result. and with the restructure of cdbaby, i've been waiting two months to have 4 singles released with them (they haven't even put them on their website). Feiyr is extremely quick to post to their exclusive portals, and they report/pay almost immediately. Outside of their portals, i think i paid for nearly 50 sites and 10 have them and are selling them.
weak.
Symphonic looks promising.
Again, thanks for the info.

By: buzzsonic

buzzsonic — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:57:11 +0000

Really appreciate the comments Flemming, certainly helped to fill in some gaps which I will be updating shortly in a bigger round-up.

Many thanks for taking time out to leave feedback!

Adrian

By: Flemming Kjer

Flemming Kjer — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:35:51 +0000

Hey Adrian,

Thanks a lot for including our humble company on your list, and thanks for the input. We can definitely use your comments to improve the information on our website and the structure of it. We certainly do not mean to scare off visitors - in fact, we might want to consider leaving our relatively tiny all-flash site and replace it with an (x)html site.

KJER.com strive to be the preferred business partner to record labels and music production companies worldwide that do not have the time or the resources in-house to take care of the complex digital distribution processes, and therefore have chosen to outsource the administration of their digital music assets.

Before we enter a business relationship we use a quite "analogue" way of discussing whether KJER.com is in fact the right place for the company in question. Consequently, visitors aren't enabled to automatically sign up. We want to be sure that we are the right choice for our clients, and we are only interested in helping the right clients.

In that process, we collaborate with IODA and and we have done that since 2005. Of course! :)
- Please allow me to underline the fact that KJER.com is a B2B company, i.e. we do not assist individual artists.

By-the-way: We help our clients with a lot of other relevant and critical tasks too, e.g. audio and graphics prep work.

Thanks again. Keep up the good work.

All the best,

Flemming Kjer
- director / founder
KJER.com ApS

By: buzzsonic

buzzsonic — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:26:40 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Justin, also much appreciated. I do hope you saw my part 2 update here:
http://buzzsonic.com/2009/04/26/digital-music-d...

There's a part 3 coming up this weekend and I'll be putting all three parts together as a PDF very shortly.

All the best

Adrian