CD Baby Grows Up With New Design & Features
CD Baby, the indie music child that Derek Sivers skillfully birthed and took into its teens, is now growing up under the guiding hands of new owners Discmakers. The compeltely revamped site which went live a few days ago offers a much sleeker experience for both artists and fans of indie music.
In additon to a new design, new features include:
- artist pages that house multiple releases
- single song downloads at variable prices
- direct uploading of new material eliminating a cumbersome mail-in process
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Yeah, it LOOKS better, but they’ve got a TON of bugs to work out still!
Yeah, they appear to have lost my wishlist.
I think patience is in order, has a major upgrade of anything ever gone entirely smoothly?
Very true, very true. Patience is in order, especially since we don’t really have a choice. On the other hand, why did they bother? The old CDBaby was great, why fix something that wasn’t broken?
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, surely has application to this situation.
Unfortunately, many functions of the CD Baby site now appear to be broken, as a consequence of the “fix”.
Having been with CD Baby since 2002, we really hope this is not the end of a beautiful friendship.
As well as the official forums at http://www.cdbaby.org – a couple of CD Baby artists have created pages for us to all discuss what’s happening:
Richy Kicklighter’s Midnightpassmusic page @:
http://www.facebook.com/cdbaby#/profile.php?id=100000144485639&ref=ts
and done gone has created:
http://cdbabyrelaunchdebate.blogspot.com/
http://cdbabyrelaunchdebate.blogspot.com/2009/07/cdbaby-relaunch-debate.html#comments
A longtime CD Baby employee has posted that the launch happened before things were technically ready. What I am hoping to see is a site rollback. Get something that works online – meanwhile the IT team can test and fix any new system before relaunching it.