[Art Munson]

@MichaelL

“You won’t like my answer.”

Actually, I like your answer just fine and  I certainly appreciate that you’ve taken the time and effort to respond.

To date, my approach is similar to yours. Almost everything that I have out there at the moment was written directly for a show (work for hire) or is signed to an exclusive library. I currently have a handful of tracks in two non-exclusives and there only a small amount of overlap. It’s just something I’m checking out (further signing with non-exclusives) but I’m not advocating it one way or another. To me it’s just something I’m looking into and this is an interesting conversation and I’m trying to learn more.

As far as the library I was referencing in my original post, they still haven’t answered my upload question and, from where I’m at now, they just seem to want to stockpile tracks without doing much beyond that. All well and good and, really, none of my business if I’m not working with them but with all the options out there they’re not looking so attractive to me at this point so I’ll probably just let it go and move along.

Thanks again!

 

[Art Munson]

@MichaelL

“Just imagine being on the RECEIVING end of that mess. Think it gives the producers a warm and fuzzy feeling about composers? We are our own worst enemy.”

Out of curiosity, how do you think composers can stop being “our own worst enemy”? On the one hand,  you advise not turning one’s back on any income stream but you also seem to be saying that we are causing ourselves problems by participating in some of them. What’s your approach? Is this just the way it is or is there a solution?

[Art Munson]

>Is it possible that their critical listening comes later? For example, you do the paperwork and upload say 30 cues. They listen to your uploads and reject 15 of them? So this initial listening of just 10 seconds was only to get you to the next step?<

It’s possible, I suppose, but that’s not what I’m gathering from their communication…

I think they may be making it easy for me to decide since I’ve asked them a question regarding a confusing request in their upload process (they want ID3 tags on wav files which I don’t think is possible?…) and so far I’m not getting a reply. Of course they may be very busy and unable to reply for a while but I’m glad to mull it over in the meantime and keep the option open.

What I believe I’m seeing here is a company that’s a sidebar to other pursuits in the music business. They seem to be passive and willing to stockpile whatever is sent to them in case something comes up. Of course, I could be wrong, maybe they’re more active than they appear to be. Regardless, they can conduct their business however they see fit. What I found off putting in the first place was the initial dishonesty in saying that they were listening to music that they were obviously not. It’s not a big deal but to me it is a weird way to start a professional conversation – it just puts a little bad taste in my mouth, that’s all…

Besides all that, the way I work is that I try to stay busy and productive no matter what, then I weigh out the opportunities and prioritize them. I find that it all kind of takes care of itself that way. Since I posted this yesterday morning other opportunities have started looking better and this one has faded. I’ll just pursue those other opportunities first and let this one sit for a while. If, later on, I end up with the time and the effort seems worth it may send these folks some music. If they eventually fall off my list that’s fine too.

The main thing for me is to keep moving forward and hopefully always keep learning along the way…

Thanks again everybody!

 

[Art Munson]

Sometimes they get listened to and sometimes they don’t. You should e-mail Mark (the owner). He’s a very straight up guy.

[Art Munson]

Thanks to everyone for your responses!

[Art Munson]

@ MichaelL

Thanks for your response. I was specifically asking about folks feelings and thoughts toward libraries that accept music without listening to it first. Let me attempt to clarify, I already have music in both non-exclusive and royalty free libraries. I’m not wrestling with that particular business decision and I don’t think I’m “above” any particular business model. The non-exclusive and RF libraries that I’m with did listen to my music first and the royalty free library I’m with is actually very active during the composition process. I just have concerns about a library that doesn’t seem to care but otherwise presents itself well. I would think that that attitude could possibly reflect back on it’s contributors but that’s where I’m not sure and I’m asking for insight and/ or experience here.

 

[Art Munson]

Thanks, Art!

[Art Munson]

“Ha! Hopefully It’s obvious that I meant to type “without listening” in the title. Silly fingers…”

Got that fixed for you.

[Art Munson]

Ha! Hopefully It’s obvious that I meant to type “without listening” in the title. Silly fingers… It would be nice if you could edit these things if you make a mistake…

[Art Munson]

bigg rome:
I am still Team JP but i just speak my truth.
After all not most are notwilling to do that in todays society

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That’s fine but your “truth” may not be the same as another persons. I’m just trying to keep life amicable. 🙂

[Art Munson]

bigg rome:

[Removed by moderator – not relevant. Please keep this forum friendly!]

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Please keep it friendly bigg rome as I will remove comments that add nothing to the conversation and only try to inflame.

[Art Munson]

Scott Ross:
Well, that’s a bummer about the dvds. I have no idea how it got there.

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You can find out, just takes some digging. Try finding the production company and/or the music editor or music supervisor. It’s been my experience when you are trying to track someone potentially using your music without a license, they respond very well.

[Art Munson]

In my view you would be better off sending them what you are pitching.

[Art Munson]

Generally speaking the library would register the song with your PRO if they are collecting the publishing income. Registered or not the song will get picked up off of the cue sheet anyway (if it’s on the cue sheet correctly).

[Art Munson]

Barbie:
Art, just checking if you can add me to this thread since for some reason I’m not getting any emails re AudioSparx or other threads that I like to follow.Thanks!

Barbie

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Hi Barbie,

Sorry for the problem.

I’ve checked everything on this end an all seems to be working. I’m not hearing any other complaints of others not receiving follow-up e-mails from the forum or comment subscriptions.

Please check with Audiosparx’s ISP and see if MLR is being blocked for some reason (that can happen if someone decides to file a complaint at the DNS level). There may be other security implementations on AS’s end that are blocking the e-mails.

If anyone else is having problems please let me know as this may be an ongoing problem that I should know about.

Thanks!

Art

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