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wiz_d_kidd 
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 Topic: New Artist Submission ProceduresPosted: March 01 2020 at 11:50 |
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This procedure... c) Provide legal links for streamable samples of the band's music that checkers and team members can listen to (no clips nor excerpts). ...seems rather limiting. Albums that are sold on Amazon, for example, only provide 30 sec clips for you to sample, so it's impossible for a submission to meet this criteria.
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Rivertree
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:08 |
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the clear majority of submissions can be fulfilled with unlimited samples via youtube, bandcamp, spotify, progstreaming, soundcloud, legitimated download codes aso
that's our experience Edited by Rivertree - March 01 2020 at 12:11 |
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wiz_d_kidd
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:23 |
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Here's an example... David Cross & Peter Banks, "Crossover". Youtube? Nope, only samples. Amazon? Only samples. Soundcloud? Nope, not this album. Bandcamp? Nope, album isn't on there. Oh well, I guess a legitimately good album would be rejected because full-length streaming is not available.
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:34 |
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^ The album "Crossover" already added to PA database.
Or was it just an example of legal links' unavailability?
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wiz_d_kidd
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:48 |
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^It was just an example of the unavailability of full-length streaming, that is now required for submission.
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:50 |
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^ To be clear, we always needed full albums to evaluate, it's just now on the person suggesting to provide links to the full albums in the suggestion thread.
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Posted: March 01 2020 at 13:04 |
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Crossover is in fact on Spotify, in full, and available to listen to for free (with ads): |
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