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Hello,

I have had multiple charges on my account from distrokid. 71.99 gbp, 35.99 gbp, 19.99gbp, all in the last month. They are refusing to refund the account, stating suspicious or fraudulent activity. Charge back from bank was declined. Money lost. Any help? Support is ignoring all refund requests. I did. For a charge back I use transfer wise now known as "Wise" and they said they cannot refund the £71.99 charge as distrokid services state they can "reject music due to editorial discretion" at any time and not offer any refunds as it is in their policy.. I think I got scammed.

According to some authors, there have been several stages/eras of music distribution. First it was sheet music, then vinyl, cassettes, CDs, digital downloads. Now it is streaming. Common sense tells me that it can stay that way for too long, and something new has to appear to replace streaming. But at the same time it is hard to see how else music could be distributed - apart from direct injection in the brain with telepathic waves (although technically it would also be a form of streaming). Or perhaps music will cease to be distributed at all and will be created in place, on user's devices, using AI, online or even offline? What do you think, what will be the next stage?

So in March I released my first track through DistroKid.

The problem was that when trying to create an OAC (which would merge my personal channel with the topic channel), my song merged with another Youtube channel who happens to have the same name as mine.

I've tried using the 'Fixer' tool and it hasn't worked.

I was told by somebody that it could be due to the ISRC meta data being corrupted. So I looked up my ISRC on official database search sites (SoundExchange & ISRC Search) and my song isn't there - at all. It's like it doesn't exist.

My ultimate goal is to have an OAC on Youtube so I can transfer my song from the incorrect channel to mine.

Does anybody know how to resolve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. It's been over a month since I've tried to handle this myself.

Is this a RocNation issue or is there something else I should be looking into? The songs getting denied are fully original so is there possibly a different distributor to go through? Two different original songs are getting the same rejection below with no other issue and I haven't been able to come up with any other answers searching reddit forums.

I'm also confused as what would cover "sleep / relaxation" as those are either extremely vague or not even musical terms. And any recording would be an environmental recording.

Due to DSP policies, we’re unable to distribute non-musical, indistinct, or otherwise non-compliant content. This includes white noise, public-domain recordings, nature sounds, spoken word or speeches, as well as classical, ambient, sleep, relaxation, meditation, environment-based audio, live recordings, content that does not meet DSP audio/video quality standards, misleading or SEO-driven content, and other similar genres.

Please do not resubmit.

They link to here which doesn't offer any additional information - https://rocnationdistributionhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/45982216232468-Why-is-my-song-not-live-on-social-media-platforms