"TuneCore is a Scam."

[@Kevhuman]

From now on they should be referred to as Tuna-core due to the distinct fishiness surrounding them!

[@sirhambone]

Lmao I initially read the title as Tuna Core and had to check it out

[@PEZ-S]

I pulled all my music off TuneCore because they gave me such BS over the titles of my tracks as the title didn't fit "apples" track title format. So I downloaded apples' guide to uploading tracks and naming protocals and educated myself on what the parameters are. I renamed the tracks exactly how apple prefers and reuploaded the album to tunecore. But Tunecoree blocked the upload again with the Exact same excuse. "Blocked because of being unable to distribute to apple based on track title naming conventions". I replied with a quotes from apples own guide showing them that what I had done was correct and then they replied to me that they will not distribute the album at it has been permanently blocked. I wrote a huge email back to them and then they just did not reply at all. So me being me tried to upload the album again but with different title and track names, (I literally just made stuff up for the track names....track 1 = onetrackplayfirst, track 2 = thistrackplaysaftertheonebefore, etc) and ...drum roll please...the album was blocked straight away. I tried a third time with just random title names such as track 1 = flowers, track 2= buds etc, and again album blocked. I replied to the notification email again and then this time they replied if I would like to remove the album, I replied that I'm trying to upload the album and the reply I got next was baffling, it just said this album has been blocked due to not meeting apples naming convention....AGAIN! So again I replied with the evidence that it does meet apples naming convention and proved to them with a copy of the document attached. And their reply was, "would you like us to remove the album from your listings?" So I thought F-orget this. So I pulled all my albums down from their service and asked them to remove my account. At this point they said, unable to remove account due to uncollected compensation. Baffled by this I go to my earnings and I had $0.06 fromover 640+ plays on spotify so I emailed them back telling them that I am they can absorb the $0.06 it wont be missed. And then they replied with the exact same answer as before. Annoying. Endless annoyingness.

[@GHar94]

Who knew the music industry were full of people who just wanted to take your money.

[@jsmoovefromda4]

Tunecore exposed kzbin.info/www/bejne/habJd6aijLqVfJofeature=shared

[@atta1798]

You have to think....they don't go to school and are losers

[@ZonymaUnltd.]

I was just unironcally looking into Tunecore last week. _Well then_

[@prodbybigl]

I wonder how difficult is it to start a distribution service🤔

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Same

[@djanon22]

Pretty easy if you use a white label service. Extremely difficult getting your own direct connections to stores. Some popular ones are Move Music, Distro Direct, and Revelator.

[@robertwatkins3939]

Years ago I looked up what it would take to upload directly to iTunes and it was a convoluted process including having a certain amount of albums already listed and a certain amount of time on the store. I personally don’t understand why there isn’t a more straightforward way to upload directly to the store. I would pay let’s say 150 per album or 25 per single (just numbers out my ass) per store just to cut out the middleman

[@TheMagicPOPO]

The trash AI video making a sudden appearance at the end 😂

[@Rohme.33]

Distrokid is a dream. Tunecore is a nightmare.

[@djanon22]

Dude DK has been banning and stealing royalties way longer tf you on about lol. Weaver even has a video about him getting screwed by them, and how the wheel of playlist slots are botted lol.

[@VinceFinemMusic]

I watched that entire first video while doing other stuff and, while she had good points, she's one of those creators who repeats the same stuff over and over again to pad the length of her video.

[@GizzyDillespee]

These companies' sole service is to upload music - to simplify that process in exchange for money. So, if they take peoples' money, but refuse to do the one and only job that they're paid to do, then that's a scam. You don't pay them to evaluate whether your music meets their standards... maybe they have horrible tastes! Likewise, "musicians" who have a hundred artist names, uploading thousands of loops... that's a scam too. A bunch of scammers getting scammed by scammers. You guys really want a world where everyone's a scammer and everything's cheating and fake?

[@jsmoovefromda4]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/habJd6aijLqVfJofeature=shared tunecore exposed by lawyer

[@ClintMoody]

You should watch the last couple of videos from Top Music Attorney. Tunecore just decided to keep thousands of dollars in royalties because they didn’t like an artist and after providing proof that said artist didn’t fake streams like they claim, they just unilaterally decided to keep the money anyway. Fuck Tunecore.

[@baileywatts1304]

so like, what do we do for distro now? Do I go back to soundrop?

[@hedmanm]

I was using CD baby because I preferred paying once per release, but they caused me problems and had no customer support. I'm hearing bad things about others like DistroKid, so I recently moved to Symphonic. I don't like paying the annual fee, but Symphonic's customer service and response to questions has been great.

[@hevvyserve]

why does she have a gas container behind her

[@robertcarter1979]

Gotta go direct too consumer

[@Burn1naday]

Live music. For digital music it would take forever to get the song on all dsp’s . There are some music platforms that pay pretty well, downside is they lack the audience/reach.

[@rollingthunder-AI]

They don't pay out.

[@2frgn]

If tunecore and distrokid are sketchy, what are the alternatives?

[@notdeep236]

cdbaby, emubands there are others I don't remember but these seem to be the better ones. cdbaby has a great deal rn.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

This why I basically dont use streaming services, because of worrying about this sort of thing, lifes stressful enough. Problem is I kinda have to use these strraming services or basically nobody will ever hear My music and whats the point of making music nobody but Me will ever hear?

[@iso_brown]

with more than 100 000 tracks released per day on Spotify and unless you have contacts in the music business, the only point is the pleasure to compose/produce. Today, music production is like fishing: a hobby for 95% of people.

[@ekids.bassment]

That's the big problem for me, and that's why I'm constantly thinking about creation my own service. I have a network of famous dj's and I used to work for radio too. So I'm trying to get airtime/playtime instead of streams, because once your on the air, people will start to stream you.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@iso_brown Which basically means I should have a good social media following before posing on streaming services or I should just sell production sample packs and audio related content instead? That seems to be the plan of alot of music production KZbin creators and seems to work, as they can siee line profit into buying payed promotions for there music off of the money made off KZbin.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@ekids.bassment Well they say its not wgat you know but who you know but should be noted that money gets you seen. Thats why alot of rich kids become the biggest stars, they buy there way in early most of the UKs biggest Popstars from Dua Lipa to Ed Sheeran where from a wealthy family who could afford to pay £100.000 a year for dram school. Adel is the only one I know who only got to go to a drama school because she won a tallent competition and a 3rd party funded her education.

[@usstah]

Tune core hoarding slaps for themselves😂.

[@UglyMarco]

Making the Rizz playlist for their own benefits smh 😂

[@jsmoovefromda4]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/habJd6aijLqVfJofeature=shared tunecore exposed by lawyer

[@CarlitoProductions]

Back in early 2010s they were and still are I see

[@KxngSchillo]

Scammers indeed. Amuse also.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

“No refund” Lol.. chargeback, tha fuck outta here with your bs

[@rmselector]

anyone use LANDR?

[@SedBuildsThings]

i want to hear the songs, if they got rejected for being dogshit or not

[@RevIsnot]

landr distribution is really good

[@eul0gyyyy]

hey busy

[@fentanyljones6956]

Too Lost is a way better distro

[@hrvstmusic]

Letting anyone Willy-Nilly distribute music was a terrible idea.

[@jonasharp3]

Idk, being able to upload your music without having to go through labels seems pretty positive to me. Letting companies engage in predatory practices without repercussion seems like the actual thing worth addressing.

[@poofygoof]

​@@jonasharp3 the internet was supposed to enable anybody to publish what they wanted, since distribution of digital media has an incredibly low barrier of entry and negligible reproduction costs. instead we've replicated the same gatekeeping structures and an endless stack of middlemen arguably worse than we had before. publishing and distribution should be the easy part. the hard stuff is recommendations / promotion / discovery, library management, and payment.

[@jonasharp3]

@@poofygoof yeah I agree with that, I was a bit overly simplistic in my original comment, but I still don’t agree that the idea of allowing anyone to distribute music was a mistake in and of itself. It’s a much more nuanced issue than that, and it’s more or less a lot of the same problems that have always plagued music in industrialized society.

[@sameddy2729]

First world problems

[@Marcustrh]

Y’all keep rehashing. The same tunecore video. We get it😂😂😂 dash please should have been able to release her Grimes AI track 🤦🏾‍♂️ Curtis made the video two month ago and you’ve done multiple reactions 😂😂😂 lazy

[@jsmoovefromda4]

This a new video lawyer exposes tunecore kzbin.info/www/bejne/habJd6aijLqVfJofeature=shared

[@ghost-user559]

Nah man you are not even paying attention at all, they are literally *Still* doing more damage as we speak. They just removed all of Ben Jordans albums overnight and they are pocketing profits from Artists by claiming they are “botting” and they changed their contract so they can steal the rights to all the music you uploaded. So yeah that was one single issue, but they have *still* kept going with further issues since then.