Audiosocket Music
| If you are a composer and/or songwriter, please leave your comments and experiences with this company. We want to hear the good as well as the bad! Please rate, from 1 to 10, by clicking on one of the stars. Below is some general information but we make no guarantee of accuracy. Check with the company for all details. Please contact us for any corrections. | ||
| URL: | http://audiosocketmusic.com/ | |
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| Accepting Submissions: | Yes | |
| Submit Via Uploads: | Yes | |
| Submit Via Mail: | No | |
| Submissions Reviewed: | Yes | |
| Types Accepted: |
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| Charge For Submissions: | Yes | |
| Up Front Money: | ||
| Royalty Free: (non-broadcast use) |
Yes | |
| Exclusivity: (Exclusive, Non, Semi) (Semi = Free to place on own but not with another library) |
Non-Exclusive | |
| Re-Title: | Original - plus code | |
| Set Own Price: | No | |
| Contract Length: | Unknown | |
| Payment Schedule: | Bi-Annual | |
| License Fee Split: (writer/library) |
50/50 | |
| PRO Split Based on 100%: (writer/library writer/library/publisher or writer) |
50/50 | |
| Requires Licensee To File Cue Sheet: | Yes | |
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Categories: Music Libraries A to A | 
Tags: composer, music, music library, songwriter | 
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$5.00 for them to consider your music?
C’mon!
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Ed, February 11th, 2010 at 11:46 am Reply:
This company is growing! They are getting me increasing placements. I recommend them. $5 is really nothing compared to what I spend on TAXI, Sonicbids, etc. Keeps the riff-raff out.
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I’ve got about 120 tracks in the Audiosocket catalog. The $5 is OK, if you consider it an application fee… i.e. send in 4 tracks with the $5 and if you are accepted, you can then give them all your available tracks. You can also continue to send them tracks without paying anything more. They have to pay someone to take the time to go through the mountains of CDs that get sent, so it’s a way for them to weed out the people that aren’t serious. I understand your hesitation, but I can vouch for them.
They have licensed my music for amounts ranging from $600 – $1000 a pop.
Payments take a while, but nothing out of the ordinary for this business (they wait to get paid, then their accountants cut a check).
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Good company, I have received a placement also. They are working hard as a library, and also as a music community leader in the NW. (events, promotions, etc.)
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audiosocket keep 50% of publishing , but you retain 100% of perf/writers share, which suggests retitling. Is that the case, guys?
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I stongly dislike the practice of charging for submissions. I think I already had tracks signed with them before they started charging- don’t recall. If I went to their website cold and saw the $5 fee, I wouldn’t have submitted. BUT…
That being said, they are extremely professional to deal with and I’m happy to be with them. Their contract is one of the most artist friendly ones I’ve looked at– every item that I normally look for was right there.
I tend to like it when libraries are very diligent about dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s on paperwork– tax ids, co-writers, sound-likes, PRO CAE/IPI #s etc. When I’ve signed and been ask for none of this, I am more concerned. Paperwork is a good thing.
And they have a track record of placements.
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i found this on the ‘net about audiosocket. Scroll down to about halfway. It doesnt make for a good picture.
http://www.velvetrope.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=306087&page=1&fpart=16&sess=c...
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Yeah, I’m always turned off when there’s a submission fee.
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They were recommended to me by a composer that does well with libraries (he’s obviously talented!). When I submitted one year ago the fee was $15. I never heard back whether I was accepted or not. I wrote them after a few months and again, did not get a response. I just figured them to be a rip off and wrote them off as a lesson learned. Just yesterday I received an email from them stating that I had been accepted and wondered why I had never sent in any material!
Now I’m not sure what to think about them. I may give them the benefit of the doubt since who knows what happens to email floating around in cyberspace. And since they were highly recommended from a composer I respect.
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$5 for 4 songs doesn’t really bother me if they actually listen. It used to be $15 which was a bit much. I just submitted 4 songs
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They don’t let you know much about what is happening with your stuff. They are happy to send an email about their wonderful placements though, and the parties they go to.
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Not saying that’s good or bad but none of the libraries I’ve worked with tell you what’s going on with your songs. And most of the time you first hear about a placement 6-9 months later (U.S.) when your PRO statement arrives.
If by not keeping composers in the loop they are spending more time pitching music, that’s OK with me. Emails about placements? I like them. I’d rather know the library is having some successes. Beats wondering if a libary ever makes a placement…
I do know that some libraries will tell composers about placements, especially bigger deals.
Like everything else, the number one priority is getting placements, making money (no debate about splits here, LOL), and often just as important– credits. They mean a lot.
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Hello everyone, I just came across this web site. I love the service and the information it’s providing to the community. In full disclosure, my name is Brent McCrossen. I’m the CEO of Audiosocket. Thank you all for your thoughtful comments and healthy criticism. It means a lot to me.
To provide clarity on some of these statements, I offer this brief history. In the very early days we had no submission fee. We were getting hit with over 30 submissions a day and so many songs were cover tunes that people didn’t have the right to. Many more songs were just awful or poorly recorded. This was taking time away from our music departments ability to classify the music we had signed. Music we know was up to snuff.
After much internal debate we decided to enact a submission fee of $15. We got some backlash as is outlined in that really nasty velvetrope post that’s linked in this comment chain. Still, since then haven’t had a single person upload someone elses songs that they don’t have the right to.
After more internal debate we dropped the fee to $5, assuming that would be enough to prevent people uploading work they don’t have the rights to. It was…
Believe it or not, we’re about to make another change. We about to launch a new brochure site and we’ll be removing the fee all together, again. I realize that we’ll get more people uploading horrible music or, even worse, music they don’t have the rights to. We’ve done the comparison and I’m fine with it. It will take us a lot longer to get back to people with a yes or no but that’s the way it goes. I’d rather that than have a group of trusted musicians associate us with a scam. It’s not like $5 submission fees are our revenue model. We’re after real placements that garner real licensing fees. Our artists will attest to that.
We value our musicians more than anything in the world. Simple fact, we wouldn’t be here without them. We strive to hold music industry seminars on a quarterly basis and provide knowledge and contribute to the community. All of this is free and our way of giving back.
In the 2 years we’ve been in business we’ve made great progress. We’ve secured a substantial amount of placements for major brands, TV shows, Films and video games. We have been able to grown our sales team in NY, New Orleans and LA and those cats are push our artists music every single day with more passion than you can imagine. We’re making waves in the worst economy in our lifetime and building value for our artists and our customers. Thank you all for your considerate response and contributions to this post. I know we can’t please everyone but we work hard to be fair and lobby for our artists. I wish you all the best with your carriers. If anyone on this list would like to submit to Audiosocket and avoid the $5 fee (while we wait to tun on the new site) please send me 3 MP3’s to music@audiosocket.com I’ll review it personally and get back to you as soon as I am able.
Warm Regards,
Brent
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Their LA sales team are great people and get the job done.
Their sales team are experienced and would have no problem getting jobs at large publishers/libraries, but they choose to work at Audiosocket. This alone should tell you that Audiosocket are LEGIT, and miles ahead of many other licensing companies…
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Has anyone else taken Brent up on his free submission offer?
I sent him three tracks the day he posted the offer, but haven’t heard back from him yet. Probably swamped with submissions from his free offer.
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Art, January 25th, 2010 at 9:54 am Reply:
I sent him a link on the day he posted it but never heard a word back. It always bugs me when people don’t respond as I never know if they ever got the e-mail in the first place. In this day and age of very robust spam filters it’s even more important. It’s not that hard to set up an auto-responder!
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I agree Art. Maybe he’ll see our posts here and give us a confirmation email.
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Gang I did not get your emails. Send the songs to my personal address. It’s brent@audiosocketmusic.com
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Art, January 25th, 2010 at 1:21 pm Reply:
Hi Brent, thanks for responding. In your original comment you left the e-mail address as music@audiosocket.com. I’ll re-send to this new address.
Thanks again.
Art
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Thanks Brent. I re-submitted to the new email address.
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Got turned down by Brent at Audiosocket but, as promised, he did listen right away. He sent an e-mail on passing and that the door was open to send more. Fair enough. If one is to get rejected you can’t get much better than that! Very straight ahead.
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At least you have an open door Art. After Brent listens to mine, he’ll probably tell me “please don’t send anymore”.
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All kidding aside… I’d rather be rejected than to have my tracks gathering dust on a library’s shelf. I’m sure the libraries know from experience (and their clients past activities) what they can move and what they can’t.
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Re-submitted to the new email address and got a positive response very quickly directly from Brent. Seems like a good company on the up & up.
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I have 25 tracks with this library and have nothing but good things to say about them and Brent. They are legit, easy to deal with and are moving up the ladder very quickly.
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Thanks for the offer.. sent 3 mp3’s… David
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I have been accepted and I’m sending my whole catalogue. I will let you all know how it goes as the process unfolds.
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Been with AudioSocket since 2008. Only had 4 songs registered with them and received a placement in Japan. Great feeling. Shipped 27 new tracks over to them immediately after.
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Here we go!Just submitted four tracks myself !
60 days before a response?Seems like a long time but then
things move rather slowly at this point in the game.
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Well I had the last post here and they already accpepted my submission and they just gave me a heads up today for the 4 cds I sent them!
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payment schedule is twice yearly.
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Art, March 6th, 2010 at 5:42 pm Reply:
Thanks, updated.
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Matt, March 6th, 2010 at 11:16 pm Reply:
Hey Art, in my experience they also have not re-titled – this company is going after the license fees, not royalties.
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ErikMusic, March 7th, 2010 at 7:31 am Reply:
Hmm…but there is a clause in the contract that mentions re-titling. Also, in order for them to collect their share of publishing, they would need to do a re-title to get that setup, right?
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dp, March 7th, 2010 at 7:55 am Reply:
Not necessarily!Another company right here at MLR said they are not retitling but putting their name at either the begining or end of your song title and that info was current within the last month.I believe he said BMI is requiring this and it makes sense so they can ditinguish between publishers who are representing the same material.
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ErikMusic, March 7th, 2010 at 7:57 am Reply:
Well, that still is basically a re-titling, though. Crucial Music is doing the same thing.
Whether they are adding to the title or creating an entirely new one, it still functions the same way.
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dp, March 7th, 2010 at 9:08 am Reply:
If your original title is in the name,then its an addition like you said and pro’s will be able to pay the publisher who is representing you the writer,I dont see how you think that is called retitling!
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ErikMusic, March 7th, 2010 at 10:44 am Reply:
In the their contract it says “assign a new and specific title”. If that doesn’t mean the same thing as “re-title”, I guess I’m missing something?
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Art, March 7th, 2010 at 11:10 am Reply:
Ok, “Re-title” set back to “Unknown” until definitive answer.
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ErikMusic, March 7th, 2010 at 11:17 am Reply:
I sent an email to them asking for clarification…if/when I hear back from them, I’ll let you know.
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Art, March 7th, 2010 at 9:26 am Reply:
Thanks Matt, got it fixed.
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Hey gang, it’s Brent – CEO of Audiosocket. I saw this new thread and wanted to provide some clarity. Audiosocket does register each song as the publisher. You could technically call it re-titling. We keep the original song name intack and add the track ID and our Publishing name behind it. This allow us to track the the performance royalties for each placement that Audiosocket makes on your behalf.
Hope this info helps. Thanks to all who have sent me their songs directly. I found some great music via this community. We’ll be launching a new brochure site soon that will have a free submission process. I’ll let you know when that goes live. For now, if you’re interested and haven’t submitted to me already, please send 3 MP3’s to brent@audiosocket.com
Also, for those indoctrinated in the tweet nation, you can follow us at twitter.com/audiosocket. We often send out post for new music we or clients are looking for, provide links to cool music related articles and of coarse keep you up to date with our general insanity
Warm Regards,
Brent
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Art, March 7th, 2010 at 11:36 am Reply:
Thanks for the update Brent!
Art
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I know the guys at Audiosocket. They’re good people and really care about the musicians they work with. They’re selective but they’re serious about the quality of their catalog.
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Paid the $5 submission fee at their website about a month ago and was accepted. They got back to me the next day with an email. Getting masters together to submit for catalog. Excited to work with them, I’ve heard good things from some friends who use them.
Tyler
http://www.solocomusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/audyssey
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Got a reply within 24 hours using the link that Art got. Sending stuff over now. First impressions are very good. Very together with contracts and info. We shall see.
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I’m hosting an Audiosocket party this Thursday May 20th at The Libertine in Hollywood, CA
FREE ENTRY
COMPLIMENTARY SNACKS
COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS
Flyer is up at http://www.johnfulfordmusic.com
Come say hi…
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Art, May 21st, 2010 at 11:11 pm Reply:
Thanks John, had a great time at the Libertine last night. Robin and I enjoyed meeting you Scott and Trig. Also had a nice chat with Mike from Audiosocket. Anybody in L.A. should make sure to get to the next one!
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John Fulford, May 22nd, 2010 at 7:15 pm Reply:
Thanks for rolling through Art, it was fun. The next one should be in August…
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I just had a placement thru audiosocket that earned a $250 license fee. Thanks Brent & co!
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