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Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with Symphonic so I can’t speak on it. I’ll look into it!

Glad you liked it!

DSPs DO collect Mechanical royalties, if you pay to have them collected. Some DSPs allow you to release music for free, but they won’t collect royalties. Other DSPs charge for you to release with them, and they WILL collect Mechanical Royalties. Any money paid to you via Cd Baby or Tunecore or Distrokid or whoever are mechanical royalties. The MLC collects any mechanical royalties you might be missing. Royalties that haven’t been paid to you. This is a game-changer, I think, because it allows us to release via free versions where mech royalties aren’t collected, and allows us to collect for free via their platform. Mech royalties are streaming royalties, they’re also royalties from any sales, or any songs of yours that have been covered by other artists. It’s weird because the definition of mechanical has changed since we have transitioned from primarily physical product to digital product. There are other kinds of royalties paid to composers/songwriters, CD Baby had a program where they would collect things like performance royalties and any royalty from sync licensing, but they no longer provide that service. That is what ASCAP and BMI do, and I have episodes on the podcast on how to register for ASCAP, and how to get performance royalties for performing your original music, if that’s of interest to you.

@HowMusiciansMakeIt thanks alot for the explanation and Detail I actually am with BMI. So I have BMI, Distrokid and MLC. I should be all set releasing music right? I only have about 3 tracks out with rights other tracks are just SoundCloud with free youtube beats so those aren't official releases.

@@Respect2theFallen yep you’re covered, for sure. Not a bad idea to sign up with sound exchange as well, in case anything you release get played on Sirius XM, Pandora, or radio more generally.

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All you have to do is keep track of each song’s ISRC code. If your song gets pulled when you leave Distrokid, and you have to reupload the song, you can do that on any other platform using the song’s existing ISRC code (which is assigned to the song by the DSP you release with, when you release the song) - if you use the same ISRC when you re-upload (along with the same .WAV file, and album art), your song will assume it’s stream numbers, and will be put back on the playlists it was on, automatically.

Thanks, Tammy. Good luck with your upcoming releases!

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Agree

In terms of what the best platform is for someone from Nigeria, I’m sorry but I do not know. You’re right about collab collection. Distrokid will pay out different users/collaborators automatically, but most won’t.

Okay. Thank you so much.

No not at all. They only collect royalty from streaming companies. The publishing belongs to you. So you can go and register your songs with ASCAP or BMI. If your song were to get put in a tv show or film, you’d then collect composer/writer royalty, and publishing royalty through one of those two PROs. CD Baby does have an option that you can let them deal with the PRO stuff, but then they’ll take a percentage of that. Really, you should register with ASCAP or BMI as both a writer, and as a publisher of you’re releasing your own original music.

Thanks! More coming soon!

He kept saying "I'm ruining your podcast" but then he just kept eating his mac n cheese lol

Yes!! Shane played lead in my big band early August and absolutely smoked it!!

Google is my friend, I found it 😅. The first flexus method I found is a garbage packaging technique by a swedish company but the second result is trumpet-related 😂

@@dbhcviyou got it! It’s Flexus by Laurie Frink. Killer. Such a great book.

Totally! Might release another 40 minutes or so that I have still in the vault!

Yes Lee, you are correct. Ha - a lot of that merch I had printed before Covid, so those expenses have come and gone and are long in the review mirror. You’re right, though.

Thanks for listening, Jeanne! Glad you found it interesting and affirming!

I’m not familiar with Landr - will check it out!

That sounds right. I think the real problem I have is that you can’t be a rising artist with so many different artist names/collabs.

Thanks so much, glad you found it to be helpful!

Yeah I guess I was confused reading about the 9.99 option. I went back and read all over their website after you commented this, and this is still not clear in how they lay things out. Probably because they want people to pop for that publishing option. I deal with ASCAP separately myself, so the publishing option doesn't make a lot of sense for me. Thanks for watching, and thanks for the correction!

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Yeah man, you’re the best!

Distro has a legacy option, but it's expensive. I've been using Distrokid for a run of 17 singles in 17 weeks I've been doing, but that was before I knew I could have the MLC collect royalties. I was thinking I'd have to pay $50 per single on CD Baby to get royalties collected when I could have just done the 9.99 option. Live and learn.

@@HowMusiciansMakeIt It'll be interesting to see how all of these services change and evolve over time. Nothing is set in stone. I wonder if in the future, we'll continue to have a lot of options from a range of companies, or if one or two will become so dominant, that others can't compete.

I totally agree. I like that option too with CD baby. The thought of going through time and money to upload songs and have them taken down if you cannot afford the yearly subscription etc just does not sit well with me.

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Man thank you so much. Really appreciate you listening along. Hope you're doing great!

So glad you enjoyed it!