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  • How can music be on steaming platforms if the owner who should collect this doesn't consent to it? If it's their label posting it, shouldn't the label be handling renumeration?

    Or is this for music distributed by DistroKid, CDBaby etc. before 2018?

    by codersfocus
  • Searched for a band/album for which I was a credited performer. The band has eight figures in views - enough to justify pursuing.

    Got a 500 shown as an error message on your site, related to a failed connection to Spotify.

    by slopdetector
  • This is really interesting. Thanks for doing this. Checked one of my favorite artists who I would think is a very minor player in all this, and who is pretty original (Keb' Mo'). If I am reading the results right, he has $7,059 – $16,345 at risk. Wow. I hope this is widely used by the artists to understand the situation. Again, great work imho (I know virtually nothing about the music industry).
    by needSomeCoffee
  • FWIW - I put in an album I produced on Spotify. Rather than just returning results for that album, it returned some not related to the album by another artist with the same name. It's not worth pursuing based on the number of streams I have, just - this is exactly what I suspected would happen before running search, and it did. So it makes me skeptical of the accuracy in general. But I'm definitely in favor of this.
    by SoleilAbsolu
  • Spotify is rate limited so its very difficult to check now. Happy you built it, hopefully we will be able to use it soon to check our catalog.
    by addajones
  • I tried running an artist through who is a friend, with a few grand found. Will forward the link to her. Is this Spotify only? Thank you.
    by quickdeer
  • A note: nowhere in your post or the site (except the footer) is the “MLC” acronym expanded. I certainly didn’t know what it was before now.
    by subract
  • Thanks for building this!

    I was in a band active in the mid 2000s (think myspace era) and we never signed up for, or collected any of our publishing. Somehow, we still stream quite well so have been actively trying to connect the dots on this stuff over the past few months.

    They do NOT make it easy, and if you want to collect internationally as a DIY artist, its basically impossible. Trying to navigate this is almost a full time job.

    by kyasui

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