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On the other hand I think, financially, it’s a wash.
What you you mean by that Art? I am just about to take the plunge and upgrade my free membership.
Good for you! Success stories are always motivational for me
has anybody figured out how to filter works to show tracks registered within a date range? If I click “More Search Options” a column called Submission Details shows, with start and end date fields. Doesn’t seem to do anything though. Nothing comes up regardless of the dates entered.
Select “Download Works” and choose MS Excel option (it takes a few minutes to generate the file). Open the file in Excel and you can sort/filter by date, title, publisher, etc.
I download a new one whenever there is a change and save it as a new sheet in the Excel workbook. It’s good information to have.This looks pretty interesting. I’m going to check it out further. The big question is will they be able to generate customers.
I briefly met a guy a few years ago who sold loops to a DAW developer. I think it was Propellerhead (makers of Reason). I think he told me he got about $30-$40 per loop, but I could be mistaken.
If I spend a lot of time on a drum part I almost always reuse it. Especially so if there are good fills and a nice groove. But I will change the key, tempo, sometimes use a different drum kit and even make it an entirety different genre.
I did this Seinfeld-ish Hail to the Chief last year for a music call. Tunesat pick up this placement today (U.S. Presidential Inauguration Day). I don’t expect much money, but I sure got a laugh out of it. 😉
http://www.nbcsports.com/video/remembering-president-obamas-best-nfl-champions-white-house-celebrationsI joined for free in May 2016
Oh, I forgot to mention I have used the “barter” method a couple of times too. I have traded recording/producing services for session work on a hand shake. I won’t do that anymore. I haven’t had a problem (yet), but one track in particular has a few high profile placements and I’m always worried a session player will hear it and think I made a ton of money and ripped them off. A ton of money, ha.
I have done both. I did a few 50/50 deals with a couple of friends. To keep is simple, we submitted exclusively and plan to forget about them. The only issue would be a sync fees. Since they were submitted through my JP/MIBE accounts, I presume a check would come to me only, but I’m honestly not sure.
If I want a track to be non-ex, I just do a flat work for hire using a contract template a bought from a legal document website. I’ve only done that a couple of times with tracks that I feel had strong earning potential if done “right.”I had an long chat with an ASCAP rep yesterday who was gracious enough to answer a myriad of questions on a variety of topics. I asked why I have not received ANY money from 50+ placements with cue sheets on the Reelz channel. He explained many “Low music value” channels are not require to submit all program cue sheet and we only get paid if our placements air during a survey sample (for Reelz I think it was twice per year).
I have thousands of Tunesat detections that will get me nothing.Happy New Year everyone!
2016 was a pretty good year for me. My overall composing income was up 33% from 2015. My income covered my mortgage and car payments for the year. I guess I can say I’m a professional composer now. Nah, better not jinx it
My 2015 to 2016 breakdown is as follows
-PRO income was almost identical (a big disappointment)
-P5 income increased by 68%
-Big sync fees from JP & Crucial up by 79% (these accounted for about 25% of my income)
-The other Non-Ex sites were mostly up, a few were down though.I expect to make less in 2017 because a big chunk of my growth came from 5 large sync fees. Those are pretty rare for me. I was able to get nine tracks accepted into Crucial in 2016, so maybe my odds for another big placement or two are a little better.
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I regularly search for new search filters a and workarounds. I haven’t found any yet. I wait for 5-10 new cue sheets before I start slogging.I would wait.
Maybe there was a mistake on the cue sheet that was corrected.
I have collected on cue sheets for years that have never had a tunesat detection. That makes me think my track was never actually used.
In my experience, Fox sports payouts are so small it probably wouldn’t be worth your trouble persuing it.Is there a player that plays all tracks or can you focus specific songs?
Squarespace has templates for musicians/bands. I set up “albums’ by genre. My millennial son (a creative marketing major) did my design and made the tracks non-downloadable. I’ll try to PM you a link.