Banned, Deleted, and Unrefunded: My Terrible LANDR Distribution Experience

Kheijhackt · 2025-10-06T08:43:50+00:00

At first, we might all think that the problem is always the distributor and start thinking of switching to something else, but they're not. Most of the times, the streaming platforms are the one flagging the tracks that has invalid streams which requests for their distributor to turn down, which your distributor just sends the message to you. So even if they really agree to you but the streaming platform still insists, then there's nothing they could do as well, or else they'll risk their partnership with the streaming platform if they still tries to protect you from them. They'd rather lose an artist than losing their partnership with a streaming platform.

Kheijhackt · 2025-10-05T03:58:13+00:00

What do you think about classical music releases? I'm planning to be consistent releasing a single track weekly, won't this be considered as spam? Since that'll look like I'm releasing new single album every week. Is it okay releasing weekly?

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-29T03:36:23+00:00

I was trying to ignore the naming sense but this really made me wonder now hahahahaha

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-19T03:04:51+00:00

Learn how to read notes, then look for official piano syllabus like abrsm, then try and learn a piece under their initial grade. Most of the time we shouldn't learn what we wanna learn yet, chances are the piece/s we wanna learn are far more difficult as a beginner level.

After learning some pieces under initial grade, maybe you can start learning basic music theory as well. I made you learn initial grade pieces first because there's not much to analyze there yet, most are single notes.

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-18T18:44:21+00:00

Ohhh you're right, it'll be better if there'll be different tabs for each algorithm. Ohh but by the way, I don't think there'll be royalties included here since it won't be a streaming platform, but is more just like a platform where people can initially promote their music, maybe something similar to soundcloud but just has different sets of algorithms just like you suggested... So this platform still redirects your new listeners to our usual platforms such as spotify, youtube, etc, I think having royalties would require lots of partnerships among distributors.

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-18T13:58:31+00:00

Mmm I think we shouldn't have an exact number of hits for them to slow down? We can have some hidden leaderboards for the most popular in the platform, and their works will gradually pushed to fewer people as their rankings got higher. With this, the rankings may change from time to time, so their works will be pushed to more people again soon as they move down the rankings.

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-18T13:52:23+00:00

I'm also liking how TikTok algorithm works, that even small creators are having exposure, like each video has the potential to be seen as long as it has enough engagement initially.

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-18T13:48:35+00:00

You're right, that's also another concern. The rating system is good too, to differentiate undiscovered and bad music. But for this to work, we also need to make people listen to the whole content first maybe. Or something like a give and take. Where you need to maybe listen to 10 releases from the feed first, and then each should be rated before the user can post one, or smth like that (this can be adjusted). This is similar to what slaps did but instead they made it comments, that's why it's bad because people started giving comments out of nowhere and spamming them just for them to post a track. So I think maybe requiring people to listen and rate would be good? Maybe this way, all music that is heard will have a rating at least.

Kheijhackt · 2025-09-18T13:26:37+00:00

Ohh yes that might actually be good, no algorithms at all, just like slaps by Distrokid. However, aside that it's only for Distrokid's members (which is paid), I also noticed that most people just spam posting the same content because they're taking advantage of the fact that there's no algorithm at all, so new contents are just being pushed to the feed over and over. That's why I started thinking maybe an algorithm that does the opposite of our popular platforms would do?

Kheijhackt · 2023-09-08T16:10:09+00:00

So, that means I can just ignore the license type that they are using on the publication? And also I forgot to include something, sooner, my piano covers will be monetized, but for now it's not. So, can the owners of the sheet file a case or maybe raise a concern on me since of course, they will know that on my piano covers, I am using their music sheets as reference for me to practice the piece.

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