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Afaik 7digital is the main backing service of a lot of streaming sites like qobuz and Deezer. 7digital is chock full of spam. Spotify, for all their faults, ha

Afaik 7digital is the main backing service of a lot of streaming sites like qobuz and Deezer. 7digital is chock full of spam. Spotify, for all their faults, has some people who care about quality on those sort of things (the old Echo Nest people). 7digital and their white-label frontends don't, they're skeleton crew operations. I hope they understand, they can't run Bandcamp like that. Bandcamp has had problems like this in the past, with people spamming the services with other people's music and pretending to be them. It happened to an old classmate of mine who's a reasonably well known Jazz musician. Someone pretended to be her on Bandcamp for years. If this roll-up company plans to run Bandcamp like 7digital, there will be a ton more of stuff like that.

hatsix 3y ago
7digital doesn't accept music directly from artists, it's up to their distributor to ensure the music is valid... and there are several distributors that are known to be very very lax in that regard. The 7digital acquisition is still pretty fresh, so your experience with them was the state of things prior to the acquisition. Also moving forward, remember that this was already the state of things on Bandcamp, lest people forget and think that the impersonations started after this acquisition. Songtradr's core business has been B2B sync licensing. One of the reasons "Trust" is such a big deal on the website is that very large brands can't risk having a debacle where it looks like they've stolen music. So we do a lot of vetting of information before music is made available to our B2B partners. Rest assured that if things slide in a direction, it'll be towards more vetting, not less.