Popular Post Cookie Marenco Posted November 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2020 Chris, thank you for the article. You are on the right track. Blue Coast Records has recently signed a distribution deal with a very large company (to be announced soon) and in the process have uncovered some interesting processes that have not been transparent in the past. What you suspect about the files is true.... what the labels upload to the servers for distribution is not what the digital services providers get (like Amazon, Spotify, Tidal, Apple, and also known as dsps in our legal agreements). We were signed because of the oncoming push for HD... specifically Amazon. I can't mention names right now, but I can say that there are third party delivery services that take what the label uploads to the distributor and delivers to the dsps. Here's an example of what happens. We uploaded 192WAV and the dsp is selling a 9624. Huh? The dsp can handle 192. They already have our directly sent files... so who sent the 9624? And did an unapproved conversion in the middle? Yes, our interns can hear the difference. I can't talk about this publicly yet, but I will chat with you on email or phone. The dsps in the know are not happy about this situation either and we're all being thrown into this hodge podge partly because of ignorance on the end of the third party delivery service or their unwillingness to spend the money to provide the correct files. So why did we do this deal in the first place? Yes, we have our own store at BlueCoastMusic.com where we continue to sell DSD, WAV and FLAC downloads that we personally prep and perfect to ridiculous standards. We did this deal for the sake of the artists on Blue Coast Records who aren't all audiophiles and need Spotify to validate their existence. We did it to reach a larger audience where quality is less of a concern. I believe our acoustic music merits a wider following so we're stepping out into the fray. But not at the expense of our audiophile listeners. We plan on giving them the best quality files we can where ever we can. You are right... it's a mess out there. It's been a long time since we've chatted, my audiophile friend! Stay well, Cookie Marenco Blue Coast Records and Music https://bluecoastmusic.com/ Uncoy, kumakuma, asdf1000 and 1 other 2 1 1 Link to comment
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