September 1 Is a Warning: Build an Exit Package for Every Music Platform

Making a Scene Presents - September 1 Is a Warning: Build an Exit Package for Every Music Platform

There are certain phrases no musician wants to see in the subject line of an email from a company holding an important piece of their career. “Important changes to your account” is one. “Service transition” is another. “We’re evolving” usually means somebody in a conference room has made a decision that is about to create several hours of work for people who were not invited to the conference room. Then there is the granddaddy of them all: “sunsetting.”

Corporate language is wonderfully peaceful. Nothing ever closes, gets killed or breaks. Services are “realigned,” products “evolve,” businesses “transition” and features “sunset,” as though your stems, royalty records and release metadata are peacefully retiring to a beach house in Florida.

That is roughly the situation Songtradr users are facing now. Songtradr’s official help center says its Marketplace will close on September 1, 2026. The company first published closure guidance dated June 1, then expanded its transition information later in June to explain how certain distribution functions and account information are moving to MassiveMusic for Rightsholders while Songtradr points artists toward Bandcamp for direct-to-fan activity. Songtradr itself is not disappearing, and neither is the larger Songtradr group. What is disappearing is the open Marketplace that many independent artists used as part licensing service, part distribution system, part catalog manager and, whether they planned it or not, part filing cabinet. Songtradr’s current transition guidance

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