[chrisroeder]

@Mark – All good ideas, I like them a lot. Although the sites have different fields, there is a fair amount of overlap. Having said that, you’re totally right, an API approach would be 10000x better. Contacting the libraries was next on my list (looks like Haven beat me!). I would love to have a 10 minute chat to you about that – drop me an email at chris@nonfatal.com if you’ve got a moment.

@Haven42 – Aww yeah, we should definitely talk! Can’t figure out a way to DM you, can you email me?

@MichaelL – No percentage for you, but you’re definitely first in for beta testing!

[chrisroeder]

Thanks everyone for the comments – super interesting.

There was one a few years ago called ISYNDICA but they went belly up after a year or so. I think there are just too many formats, too many libraries and not enough composers willing to pay for it.

It will definitely be a lot of work, but it makes me sad how much wasted, duplicated effort there is each time I write a new track. There do seem to be a fair few replacements for ISYNDICA (like ProStockMaster), but they all seem to focus on the photo side of things.

You’re 100% right though – it’s all about finding enough composers who are willing to pay for it.

I might add that we were all confronted with the tediousness of it when we first started but have learned to adapt.

It’s not just the tediousness of it though – if the webapp could save everyone 5 hours / month (or whatever), then it would be a useful tool I think.

The implication from the add is that there is some sort of software that does the upload etc.

Is that the case or will somebody physically input the track and relevant data?

And what sort of money would you be asking per track/number of tracks?

Yes, it will be a webapp. For pricing, I’ve got no idea at the moment. I prefer a subscription based service – I’d hate to have to pick and choose between which tracks to submit via the service and which didn’t make the cut. But I’ve got no real idea about how much (if anything) people would be willing to pay – what do you think would be a fair price?

This is a great idea. Let’s swamp the libraries with thousands upon thousands of our tunes and put the likes of Universal and EMI out of business for good!

Each Music Library is a storefront where I can sell my music. It makes sense to me to put my music in as many stores as possible.

To be honest, I dont see how anybody can make decent money on such a service. In my case I got pretty good routines and workflow for the uploading and tagging process, so it doesnt actually take that long anymore. The price I would be willing to pay for each track, will probably not be enough for others to make a good business out of it.

I’m not sure it’s possible either. I’m super curious though – how long does it take you to upload to the various libraries? How many libraries are you uploading to?

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