JennaCyde 🦇 (On the 🦋, too)

I dislike getting upset, but genuinely have had the final straw with @DistroKid Many of my friends/clients have had their releases deleted, their earnings vanish, and not a single heads up from DK. Contacting support leads to non-answers and the exact same copy-pasted response citing a "claim from a rights owner", with no ACTUAL details that could be potentially helpful in fixing or avoiding the issue. This is genuinely how me and a lot of my friends make our earnings, and having releases just VANISH, even a few of them, can have pretty big effects on our income. It's no secret that I think a lot of distribution sites all suffer from SOME negative drawback, and there's no perfect solution to getting your music out there; DistroKid was the service I recommended to people because (at least out of the services I personally used), it was the LEAST painful in terms of just uploading something and putting it out there, and if you could make back the cost via your music, then it was good enough to deal with the hassle and just begrudgingly accept all the horrid ways it tries to monetize off an artist and nonsensical services they offered just to get something up there. I remember back maybe 7-8ish years ago when they had a similar issue of removing releases, and that was enough to move my work off their platform for a time. I had hoped that they had improved the service and eventually, work had me move back to it, and I started recommending it again because it seemed to go back to at LEAST being useable. Clearly, things haven't changed - and while it's gonna be a hassle to find a new place to migrate to, I'm done with the whole shitshow. DistroKid has had plenty of time to fix their shit, but I guess all that slop money is just too appealing. If any of my music mutuals have any recommendations, I'd be more than happy to look into them. If the service turns out to be good, I would 100% recommend it to my clients as well. It sucks that this has to be such a constant issue in the pursuit of making a living off music, but it is what it is, I suppose.