It has existed for a few years, but I only heard about CD Baby last year, when it swapped to using Ruby on Rails from PHP. I don’t remember where I read it first, it was one of those, “Oh my god, let’s all blog about it” days.

Anyhoo, I promptly forgot about it. A few months later, I had browsed to a website which was using background music. I always find this obnoxious, but this time… I liked it. I had to know where this music came from.

Luckily, the artist’s site was linked to, so I didn’t have to put my Sherlock cap on. I don’t actually have a Sherlock cap, so that would’ve increased the frustration, despite the fact of how truly ridiculous that would look. The music was from the album StarBound by Fred Lykes, and who was the distributer, but CD Baby.

The order process appeared to go smoothly, and so I awaited my new CD with great expectations. Unfortunately, the process hadn’t gone as smoothly as I’d thought (I’m pretty sure I screwed something up, I’m a brainfog-o-rama), so my CD never reached me, and was returned to CD Baby.

Now, this is a “bad” thing, but it turns out to be a “good” thing. I was immediately contacted by a friendly lady at CD Baby and she/they set things right – without charging me again for shipping, I might add. My CD arrived – with a much shorter wait – and just looked and sounded fantastic.

This CD rocks, by the way. I’m having a hard time figuring out which track is my favourite.

Monday, July 17th, 2006 · 12:59am