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Is it a scam? I got an email from some dude calls himself Nick asking whether I want to join Magroove as an early access independent artist.

Very nice, but my day job is I'm an academic, and it smells exactly like a predatory journal: people who promise you space in a publication that turns out to have no cred.

Any advice?

It's probably their "AI" trying to chat with you

Magrove’s wabsite says nothing at all about who they are, what they do, where they”re based. Just links to facebook, g+ and spotify login pages - as in they ask for your facebook etc. login name and password. It asks “Let’s find some new songs?” and has a text entry box reading “give me a song yo”. That’s it.

Looking at their facebook page they have 452 followers and a bunch of posts concerning the very basics of recording - “what is a microphone” level stuff.

My suspicion is they might be trying to persuade the unwary to upload their music to magroove - but with no publishing or licensing agreements, nothing about royalties, no contract...... I might be wrong, but since they don’t say what they do or even who they are how can I tell?

Amateurs at best I think, dodgy at worst.