[Alan]

Wow Scott, that is really great and highly motivating for me. Thanks for sharing that

[Alan]

Do you also create edits and/or variations? If so, are those all counted separately or as one track in these numbers?

For me a track is a title. I will make from 3-10 alt mixes/stings/loops per title.

How many libraries are you currently in at the end of Year 5 (excl. and non-excl.)?

Thanks!

Some of my older tracks are in many (15-ish) non exclusive libraries.
If I finish a track today it will go to about 5 libraries. Some of those are RF, some mainly for TV use.

I just signed an exclusive agreement with an very successful and popular library that used to be non-exclusive. I plan to submit mainly co-written tracks to them. I’ll likely do some 30 sec or less reality TV type stuff for them too. Only things that don’t take too long.

How many libraries are you currently in at the end of Year 5 (excl. and non-excl.)?

Thanks!

[Alan]

Right click on a cell
Choose “hyperlink”
Choose existing file (or something like that)
Navigate to the audio file in your browser. Be sure to choose “all file types” because the default is office files only

If you have trouble hit F1 and search hyperlinks

[Alan]

I vote for a real uke and a mic. I have a Lanakai one, under $100 hanging on the wall. Very handy and it looks nice too 🙂

[Alan]

So sorry if I came across as heated keithl. That was not intended at all. I only wanted to explain to D.I. why the program wasn’t a good replacement for my current system. If/when my library gets to 1000 tracks, my excel spreadsheet will be very difficult to manage, so I really need a good database. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Cheers!

[Alan]

“Alan, how big is your library?”
Not very big yet, about 150 titles, 500-ish of you count alts/loops.
Putting it all into a database would take what, a week? Two?

My library Excel spreadsheet can tell me:
Title
duration
tempo
Date started
Date completed
Total Income generated
File names/location
PRO Registration data
Date submitted to each libraries with accept/reject date
# of placements by library
license income and PRO income by library
link to play file
link to open a tags/metadata word document
list of all placements and payouts per PRO statement
link to master title list (all titles link back to their track sheet) that shows total income, total number of placements, and number of placements per track by library “at a a glance”
link to master placement list which provides air date, network, episode, duration, track title (that links to track spreadsheet), placed by publisher, tunesat detection
I also made a cue sheet data sheet I reconcile with my ASCAP cue sheet counter. This is so I can quickly find new cue sheets when they are added.

I’ve developed/tweaked it for over 4 years to fit my needs/wants. It would take a good product for me to abandon it, though I gladly would if I could buy something as good or better.

[Alan]

Good point Desire Inspires, maybe I will make a donation by buying it when it becomes available, depending on the price. Will I manually enter all of my library into a database that I will not use? Heck no

[Alan]

It looks great Keith, I’ve been wanting one of these for years. I would buy it today if it had:
-Submission records (so I don’t accidentally re-submit a track)
-Financial/Sales data tracking, i.e. who licensed it, how many times, how much income did it generate
-Placement data, i.e. Series, episode, original air date, PRO income
-Tunesat detection import

Consider an “Add New License” page with dropdown boxes to select:
Track Title (including all alts)
Publisher
License fee
Broadcast y/n
Optional Broadcast info:
Film, Promo, Youtube video, Network, series, episode, duration, orig air date, PRO income (that I can add to with future PRO payouts)
Tunesat detection y/n (might be nice report what Tunesat misses)
Link to youtube/vimeo etc

I’m no computer database ninja, but I created my own spreadsheet with plenty of hyperlinks and simple formulas. It is so cumbersome I doubt anyone else could navigate it, but it gives me all the info yours does plus a lot more. I would love to dump it for a real database like yours
I will be watching your website
Gook luck and keep up the good work!

p.s.
Sorry if some of these features are already there and I missed them, I’m having a hard time connecting to your site to check before I suggest.

[Alan]

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when you try to talk to people about what your doing. People just kind of look at you like, licensing, exclusive/non-exclusive, re-titling, PRO’s, what in the world is this guy talking about.

HaHa, ain’t that the truth
I’ve been at this for 5 years now an my wife still doesn’t know what I’m talking about most of the time.
Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to us all

… and Grumpy Uncle, get to work selling my tracks.
🙂

[Alan]

I would like to learn of any of your experiences with a cowriter also. I just started working on a batch of new tracks with a cowriter and we plan on a 50/50 split for everything regardless of who did what on each track. We also plan on going with an exclusive library so we can keep it simple. I’m still undecided on which library. Thoughts?

[Alan]

Would one of you mind explaining the free membership to me. I know it’s a 50 track limit, but what about detections?
-I joined 9/1/2014
-I hit 50 detections I could see in about 2 weeks
-Then I got a counter telling me how many more detections it has (that I cannot see without paying)
-Is that it, am I done?

I thought is was 50 detections per month and was expecting a reset.

I can’t complain because it’s free, but one month doesn’t seem to be enough time to evaluate the service IMO

Any insight would be appreciated

[Alan]

I finally got around to signing up for the free membership a few weeks ago. I have only added 35 tracks so far (choosing carefully) and hit my 50 detections in two weeks. It is really cool, and really good for the motivation/ego/”maybe I will not give up this week” side of this endeavor.
Question for the Tunesat subscribers:

Can any of you definitively say that your Tunesat subscription has created positive cashflow? Has Tunesat gotten you enough actual income that you would have not received without the service to justify the expense?

I really want to subscribe to the 250 track plan. Unfortunately, 99% of my placements are in cable reality shows. I can’t imagine $140 worth of MISSED placements per month. That is a lot of music.

I created a spreadsheet of all my known placements I guess I’ll have to wait a year or two to find out how many detections don’t make it to my PRO.

Incidentally, I’m quite certain I would not even be aware of Tunesat without MLR, thanks again Art

[Alan]

Advice, I had placements on a few episodes of Hollywood Hillbillies, but not the other one you mentioned though.

[Alan]

@Advice,
Yes, I am starting to see cue sheets from REELZ. Pretty quick too, I have several from April 2014, many less that 2 months to file cue sheet. Too early for payouts, I’m not expecting much though.

[Alan]

@ P-9
Does ASCAP really pay nothing, as in zero for placements on the Reelz channel?

[Author]

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