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I’ve been asked to be on the panel “MUSIC LIBRARIES: LET ME IN!!” at the Music In Media Interactive Symposium (MIMISYM) Saturday, November 20, 2010. The symposium runs from 9:00 – 6:00 PM and the music library panel runs from 10:15 to 11:00 AM.

If any of you are attending please come up and introduce yourself. Never done anything like this before so it should be interesting!

The address is:

The Highlands (at the Kodak Theater Complex)
6801 Hollywood Blvd., 4th Fl,
Hollywood, CA
(323) 461-9800

The panel consists of:

Tess Taylor – Moderator / President, NARIP
Miles Catalano – Director, Television Licensing/Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
Art Ford – Founder, Ford Music Services/Worldsongnet
Dan Kuypers – Senior Catalog Director – Music Dealers LLC
Art Munson – Founder/Owner, MusicLibraryReport.com
Tyler Bacon – CEO, Position Music

Their web site is http://hmmawards.com/ and their is a link in the middle of the page for more info.

Well a reader just informed me of a dead link and a library that has disappeared. I guess it’s time for the inevitable category for those libraries that have departed. Probably the first of many!

Twitter killed any plug in not Oauth compliant on August 31st, 2010. That stopped comments from feeding to the MLR Twitter account. After hours of searching I finally found the problem and a plug in that will work. The new plug in only notifies that a comment has been made, it does not display the comment. But, unlike the old plug in, it does tell you what post the comment was made on. One hand giveth the other taketh away!

A number of folks have asked for a more comprehensive ratings system. A few weeks ago I asked everyone for their ideas on some criteria they would like to see and I have tried to present them in a meaningful way. It’s worth mentioning that the criteria cannot be changed after the fact. If I’ve missed anything glaringly obvious we can always start over.

Because larger libraries are, for the most part, not accessible to the average composer, the ratings here will reflect the most accessible, smaller libraries. Also, while any system is subjective and far from perfect, it is at least something!

I will keep the older rating system results available for the time being.

[Update 11-05-2010]: The new ratings system turned out to be more problematic than it was worth so I went back to the old one. I will reiterate what I said above: “Because larger libraries are, for the most part, not accessible to the average composer, the ratings here will reflect the most accessible, smaller libraries. Also, while any system is subjective and far from perfect, it is at least something!”