r/TooLost

Hi I was seeing if people royalties are still pending for withdrawal i been waiting in pending and review since June 26

Call me crazy, but I feel, since TooLost was created and started by a venture capitalist, that they are using your uploaded music simply to train AI.

"Need documentation", at the level and frequency it appears, is absolutely insane.

If something sounds too good to be true, it always is.

• $36/year for unlimited artists / unlimited releases. Distrokid's about that, and you're limited to two artists.
• a full suite of products, including easy greenlisting (whitelisting/allowlisting/safelisting) for any YouTuber (by the artist themselves)
• $1.50/song to see all appearances of it with Usage Discovery (on Tiktok, Meta, YouTube) with instant notifications. Let's say you're pushing a 12-track album. Costs you less than $20 a month to see EVERY social media account using your music.
• Much more

I wouldn't trust this company with my dog's life, let alone my own. Looks amazing on the surface, the entire website, the look of the dashboard and interface.... everything. But... fuckin-a.

The amount of negative publicity I've seen in the last two hours alone is astronomical. Ratio of good news / bad news posts is like 20:1.

Hi everyone,
I need some advice.
Someone filed a DMCA claim against my original song. The only similarity is that our songs have the same title.
The lyrics, melody, arrangement, vocals, and recording are completely different. It’s not the same song at all.
I’ve already tried contacting the claimant, but haven’t been able to resolve anything.
Because of this, Too Lost has restricted my account. I can’t upload new releases or withdraw my royalties.
Has anyone experienced something similar?
What should I do next? Is a DMCA counter notification my best option?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hey I was seeing if anybody’s payments for withdrawal is still in pending

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to work out Too Lost’s current Spotify royalty reporting timeline.

If you received Spotify royalties in your most recent Too Lost wallet update, could you comment with:

What month of Spotify streams were paid? (e.g. February 2026, March 2026)

What date did your Too Lost wallet update?

When was your release first published?

I’m trying to figure out which Spotify royalty month Too Lost is currently paying, since the official guidance is 2–6 months but everyone’s experience seems different.

Thanks!

I'm disappointed with TooLost support. My account was limited and my balance frozen due to a clear third-party artificial streaming attack (sabotage), which targeted two of my songs ("30 Seconds of Preparation" and "Micro Uno") with massive and unnatural bot traffic originating exclusively from Oslo, Norway, and the United States.

I have absolutely nothing to do with this traffic. I am the victim. To demonstrate my complete good faith and full cooperation, five days ago I filed a complaint on behalf of my label "Andrius Music" (Andrea Corsini), attaching irrefutable screenshots from Spotify for Artists showing that this traffic wasn't even coming from playlists. I even took the drastic measure of requesting the immediate removal of both affected albums from distribution in the United States, Norway, and Singapore, to eliminate the source of the bot at its root.

Despite providing unequivocal evidence and actively sacrificing my distribution territories to resolve the issue, TooLost continues to ignore me or respond with automated copy-and-paste messages.

A human supervisor must finally review my five-day pending appeal, verify my cooperative behavior, and release my legitimate balance. This treatment is unacceptable for independent artists and labels.

Here are the screenshots:

https://preview.redd.it/uhhmibbe03ah1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb8767b7e98f9cdf66c87adadc999fd595163f70

Hey, my track distributed by Too Lost generated 700k plays on YouTube Music (Art Track) in March. It’s June 27th, and I haven’t received a single cent from Too Lost for that track yet. When can I expect the first royalties from YouTube Music? Also, what has your experience been like with other streaming platforms? I also run a label, and a track by one of my artists generated 4,000 plays on Spotify in March, yet the Too Lost dashboard shows only $0.01 for that artist on Spotify. Thanks in advance for the help.

Training the AI ​​on human-created data was only the very first step...

I think a lot of people are confusing two completely different questions:

Should AI be allowed to learn from human culture?

Should companies be allowed to market products based on this learning without compensation or consent?

Personally, I have no problem with my music being used to train AI models if the goal is to advance artistic tools and expand what future creators can do. Every human artist learns from previous generations. Musicians study Bach, Debussy, The Beatles, film scores, folk traditions, jazz, rock, electronic music, etc. Creativity has always been built on accumulated culture.

For me, culture functions more like a library than like private property. We do not expect students to pay every author whose books they read before writing a thesis. Knowledge increases because people can learn from what has gone before.

The real problem seems to be marketing and not learning itself.

If a company forms on millions of works and then builds a product worth billions without giving anything back to the people whose work helped make it possible, I understand why many creators are opposed to it. This is a legitimate concern.

What worries me most is the possible future where AI systems are limited to tiny opt-in data sets. In theory this sounds fair, but in practice it could create a very tight cultural bubble. The richest and most diverse training material comes from across the entire spectrum of human creativity, not just from whoever signs a licensing agreement.

Ironically, excessive restrictions could end up harming AI quality, artistic diversity, and even the future creators who use these tools.

That said, I don't think AI will remain forever dependent on endless remixing of human works. The more advanced these systems become, the more they seem to learn abstract concepts rather than individual content elements: harmony, structure, tension and release, orchestration, narrative, emotional rhythm, stylistic contrast, etc.

The really interesting question is not whether AI can imitate existing artists.

The interesting question is whether, after learning enough of the underlying principles, AI will eventually be able to explore creative territory that no human has explored before.

In other words, can it become something closer to a new cultural player rather than a sophisticated remix machine?

If that happens, then the current legal battles could come to be seen as a transitional phase: the moment when society was trying to figure out how to compensate for the past while still allowing new forms of creativity to emerge.

The challenge is not to choose between artists and AI. The challenge is to find a system where the two can evolve together without one stifling the other.

Hey guys,

maybe someone here can give me a solution.

I want to login to https://developer.toolost.com/
but I signed up on https://toolost.com/ with my Google Account.
So I don't have credentials to login.

I opened a support ticket 2 weeks ago, but still now reply.

Any idea what I can do?