SLOBOR distributes through IODA and we've had nothing but a great and positive experience.
Good distro, quick pay, even pretty good positioning, though, that's mostly by chance...


Matt Borghi
http://www.mattborghi.com


Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattborghi
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From: david kirkdorffer <unstrungone@yaho...>
To: ambient@hype...; Johan <antioxidant@gloc...>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:07:07 PM
Subject: Re: (amb) CD Baby breakdown?


Is anyone using IODA?  http://www.iodalliance.com/

David
http://www.myspace.com/undomusic



--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Johan <antioxidant@gloc...> wrote:


>From: Johan <antioxidant@gloc...>
>Subject: (amb) CD Baby breakdown?
>To: ambient@hype...
>Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 4:23 PM
>
>
>Hi ambient list
>
>A few months ago I asked for recommendations and opinions on digital distributors for small artists, and the overwhelming collective recommendation was for CD Baby.
>
>Well, I just wanted to give my experiences and warn everyone from working with them at the moment. It started very well, they answered all my questions promptly, but after I paid the $55 they have only e-mailed me once (telling that they would start to sell the album in 1-2 weeks - and that was about two months ago), otherwise they have ignored all 5-10 emails I have sent them (only sending autoreplies back) and when I phoned them I never got through their endless queue, I couldn't wait forever since it was an international call. So here I am, the album has leaked and has already been released in other territories by other labels, I'm losing a lot of sales in the territories I had planned to sell it through CD Baby and I seem to also have
> lost $55.
>
>The autoreplies say that they are busy reconstructing their web site, but it's still a very bad way to not answer e-mails or calls for two months, when they have written that they send the music to the stores immediately after receiving it and all necessary information (which they have had since June in this case). If you have these kinds of problems then you should write something about it on your web site, not continue to encourage people to sign up with you and pay you money.
>
>What are other people's experiences of working with CD Baby during the latest months? Have you been able to get material released, and have you got paid royalties?
>
>Can anyone recommend some other digital distributor for small artists?
>
>Cheers,
>Johan.
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>