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Good luck David!

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Due to “life”, I had a few starts & stops with composing and with Taxi before I got more serious about it. Since then all but one of my library deals have been through Taxi forwards. I’ve had numerous placements through the libraries, but not every library has gotten a placement. I don’t think I would have any deals without the opportunities and feedback from Taxi. I do think it’s become harder to get good quality library deals than say 10 years ago. There are other routes, but Taxi has been the best for me.

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My detections seem fewer and further between ever since December. Before that it was steady for a couple years. I don’t think my shows are airing less often, so it feels like something changed at Tunesat IMHO.

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Right, it took a very long time for me to re-install everything. It took 3 days (and nights) just to install my 6 East West products from the website. Moving to a new PC is painful!

I installed everything fresh using manufacturer routines and their defaults. I only copied a few items from the old PC where there is no longer a viable installation. I also abandoned as many 32 bit plug-ins as possible – ones that were never used, or I should be able to easily replace with a competing 64 bit plug-in. One example is the old Cakewalk Analyzer that I used on every project for years, but it’s been dropped ?, so I’m replacing with other analyzers when I open those projects.

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Here’s something that works well for me – I created my own “My Documents” folder. You could name it whatever, something like: “Alans Docs”

I use that one as the default location for files from all apps such as MS Office, etc.

The reason is because the Windows My Documents folder has become a default location that program apps often use. So now I consider it to be more of a Programs folder than it is a documents folder.

I don’t want all of that app data in ‘my filing cabinet’. This way I know where to find my folders & files and not mixed with program folders & files.

My system (1 year old) is very similar. I have 2 – 2TB SSD’s and an 8TB external back-up, and I’m running Cakewalk by Bandlab. I found that I need more space for VST / audio, and not so much space in a boot drive (for program files). So I’ve had to steal boot drive space for VST / audio too. This hasn’t been any trouble due to the speed of SSDs and the speed of modern processors. I also use Ilok, I converted from hardware to the software version now, not a problem.

I also had to have more RAM. I started with 16Gb but I soon upgraded to 64Gb which is the limit on my motherboard. It made a big difference, and RAM is cheap.

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My results were similar to Pat. Overall this year my payments were up, but not so with 2nd Qtr 2023, which was very disappointing. I especially noticed a drop in international royalties. I’m starting to wonder if there’s a pattern that my international royalties will surge 1 quarter, followed by a big drop the next, almost as if the internationals are only flowing every 6 months instead of every quarter … I know that’s probably not the case. My international royalties aren’t dependent on any 1 show or region, they trickle in from all over, which is why the amount of variation seems odd … but I’m not planning to research it, I’ll just move on to new music.

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BMI could increase their profit by paying writers less, which motivates writers to leave, or even stop writing.

OR they could increase their profit by paying writers more, and improving overall service to writers, which motivates writers to join, or even to be more productive.

Yes, I know … wishful thinking

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It was a disappointing quarter for me, way different from last quarter.

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Like daveydad, all time high for me, and international was more than U.S.

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For me, same answer as Sniper … “I simply list is as ‘composer: additional music’ there are often several people with this credit as they are all the library composers. This doesn’t affect other titles such as the main composer.”

I use the title composer: additional music, following the example of other composers that I looked up on IMDB. It never occurred to me that a library would object, as I am only claiming credit for my role. However, if a library did have a concern, I would expect them to spell it out in the initial contract or otherwise make it clear from the outset.

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sweetersongs … Thanks, very interesting!

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RM90 … So it’s not just me. Thanks

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For me, I estimate their accuracy at less than 50%, probably way less. So much of that depends on how what % of your placements fall into the regions, channels, programs, that Tunesat monitors.

Alan … “It becomes very obvious if you know you have 2 or 3 tracks in a single episode of a show and they normally miss some” … Yes, I’ve seen things like this too.

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Alan … Thanks, very interesting. I didn’t remember the limit on detections per month. And that’s great that the fee has paid off for you. I only have a few tracks in one RF library, and I think they do a good job of catching usage. But you don’t know what you don’t know.

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Has anyone else seen this? Tunesat has been behaving odd for about the last 3 weeks. My total number of detections is going up, but the date of my last detection is unchanged … so the “new” detections are being added for some dates in the past.

In scanning my list of detections, I just can’t tell where in the past the adds are being made. I haven’t tried to do a track by track comparison, it’s just not worth it.

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