A Country Christmas
14 Songs with a Country Feel
This years album, A Country Christmas, is finally available after some initial trials and tribulations. I had published this album in October, with a November 28th release date, to make sure it would get into the Apple and Spotify catalogs in time for Christmas. Sadly, when you pre-release like this you do NOT get the opportunity to see the finished product before the go-live date.
When I signed into Musixmatch to create the word-by-word lyric sync, I discovered that track 11 had a bad audio file. Strangely, on a multi-track album, they do not offer the ability to “fix” a single track. The only alternative was to do a “take down” of the entire album, essentially unpublishing it from all the various services, then resubmit the album from scratch with the bad track 11 corrected. This added significant delay and cause some very strange issues on Apply Music/iTunes. Spotify republished the album without issue, but Apple failed to publish track 5 and track 6, giving an error saying the the audio “wasn’t available in my region”; it took another couple days to get this resolved so that all 14 tracks were properly available and streamable/downloadable on Apple.
It all eventually turned out OK but the delays cost me over two weeks of the album release not being available for streaming or purchase.
Everything is now finally fixed, and the album is again available on Apple Music, and Spotify as well as YouTube Music, Amazon Music, and other other major streaming services.
I hope you all enjoy this years album and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.