- CD Baby
- TuneCore (Their sales system just WORKS!)
- Venzo Music (They can put your music on iTunes for free too + iPhone apps!)
- Zimbalam
- IODA

Steve: The question remains: for whom is the RouteNote service second to none? Your users, or yourselves? Under the name THoK, my music had not appeared on any music services. It’s cool that *some* music is appearing on iTunes within days, unfortunately, when RouteNote’s service is inconsistent to the point that you’re disappointing some users while impressing others, you’re limiting your overall income potential. Perhaps this is the point. I’m suspecting the difference is between whether or not artists desire(d) the free or paid service.

James apologised, and noted to me in email that he had “personally” seen my albums off twice to reach retailer. As he also added, “There has obviously been a fundamental issue that we have not been able to
address here, but I will having a serious look into what’s gone wrong.”

RouteNote placed no apparent effort into distributing my music regardless of how many inquiries I sent over the course of six months, but was extremely quick in removing it from your service upon my request. I’ve directed artists to alternate resources for publishing their music since.

Only problem is that I know of downloads that have not be registered or payed. Only thing I don’t know if it’s because of some give-away or credit coupons they give, so the artist doesn’t get paid.
And I know a bunch of people have listened to the stuff on streaming sites too. But I don’t know if there’s a border that you need to have at least some thousand listens in per month to be paid or something.

To sum up:
Yeah, would be great with some serious improvements on the stats part.

It’s especially important that the artists are given info about the rates and payment of every site. Ex. if they can make offers that give away your song and you don’t get paid and streaming sites can play your songs this much without paying you. + If so, one should get stats/info on how much this is happening as well. It would help the artist to chose which sites to be affiliated with.

We still have more improvements to come with Stats especially!

I’m still keeping an eye on its partners to see when my music shows up. At this rate, however, I’m fairly well fed up with RouteNote and all other “free services” (free as in money, quality and actual service).

Also, send a pleasant, polite email inquiry to RouteNote support to see if there are any technical issues blocking your music from being posted.

But I would like to hear if any independant artist has made any money with Routenote?

I’ve also noted that the number of services available to this proud Canadian have been reduced from seven to four: iTunes, AmazonMP3, eMUSIC and Spotify. I still haven’t received a response regarding one of their partners, so it’s time for the email game again.

Please, Steven, have a chat with your email support staff. PLEASE. I despise writing negative comments about companies, but I’m left with no alternative as I’m personally obligated to saving wary users from unfortunate experiences on ‘teh Intarwebs’.

Cheers.