> Lie. You will not. You need to go through the distributor (1), and it has always been this way.

Er yes, which is why I mentioned LANDR and Amuse, both of which are on the page you linked. I mentioned those two specifically because I know they don't charge up-front and instead take a % of royalties, so they're ideal for flooding Spotify with AI slop. I'm not sure which part you think is a lie.

> You need to go through a distributor (1) that does due diligence first, and it has always been this way.

I see you edited your comment. Distributors do not do any sort of "due diligence". For the free distributors, you don't even need to give them personal information until you try to actually cash out your earnings. For DistroKid, when I first signed up I put in my credit card info, submitted my first song and it was up on Spotify 3 days later.

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reconnecting 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Apologies, I had correct my comment prior to your reply.

> Because they allow anyone to upload to Spotify.

No one is allowed to upload directly to Spotify. However, I wasn't aware that distributors might not vet content prior to publishing.

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input_sh 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> However, I wasn't aware that distributors might not vet content prior to publishing.

Oh it's far worse than that. Some of them like the abovementioned LANDR also offer "AI-assisted music production", so there's that!

Very few do proper vetting. They'll remove your music in a heartbeat if someone reports you to them (even in cases where such a report is completely bogus), but they won't do much to vet you beforehand. If they did that, they'd be labels, not distributors. Their only job is to be the hoop you have to get through that you don't have on say SoundCloud or YouTube.

	▲	reconnecting 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Very few do proper vetting. Sounds promising. You nearly convinced me to reinstall FruityLoops and finally set out on the artist's path.