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I’m telling you, everyone should be doing edits.Some composers think negatively about the time it takes to do them but if you consider that you only do them once in your life (you don’t have to keep recreating edits for every sale) then it is actually a long term investment rather than an hourly time consideration.
It is a one time investment of 30 minutes or so that will pay off forever, like a 401k.Do you have to set up the whole I-Tunes program to use their encoder?
There’s nothing much to set up, you simply download iTunes and load your tracks into it and then convert.
Here are the standard instructions I send to our customers who don’t know how to convert WAV to MP3
Converting to MP3 is very easy. If you don’t already have it download the free app iTunes (Mac or PC) here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Load all of the sounds into iTunes (simply drag and drop in most operating systems) then choose iTunes > Preferences
Click on the ‘General’ tab, then click on the ‘Import Settings’ button and choose ‘MP3 Encoder’.
You can also choose the quality setting you want or choose ‘custom’ if you have a specific setting in mind.
Click OK. Then go back to the library, select all of your tracks that you want to convert, then choose Advanced > Create MP3 Version.
Once that is done you will have an MP3 version of the track in your iTunes music folder.It took me a while to realize it but music is not like milk.
A quart of milk should cost less than a gallon of milk.But a perfectly edited piece of music that the customer loves only saves them money in audio editing. It is worth more than the full length track at the point.
Music is not like milk 🙂
This recent upload (from Art) to our site is a great example of where package and edit pricing seems to be going for our library.
http://www.musicloops.com/music-download/good-king-wenceslas-5005283/
This is what all composers should be doing, imho.
I really like this track as well.I know we are not supposed to discuss so called “pay to play” services here
Wasn’t aware of a ban on mentioning the name of a service that has nothing to with MLR. I know Art can’t list them, but never heard of the ban where you can’t say the name of one.
Just to be clear I am also personally against any pay to submit services. I only mentioned it because it sounded like what the OP was asking for.Sounds like you are looking for those services where you submit to certain projects so you know exactly where your music is going. The only one I can think of right now is MusicXray but there are lots of them out there.
You have to pay per submission though.Also, if you are a band you might want to take a look at Patreon.com
It is not a licensing website but it can earn you money for your creations.
You create a new song and video and all of your patrons pay you $1.00 (or whatever they pledge). I sponsor a few of our http://www.musicloops.com composers on this platform. Mostly just because I think it is a really good idea.
One of the composers I sponsor, Josh Woodward
http://www.patreon.com/joshwoodward
gets almost $150 from all of his patrons every time he writes a song.This option has been available for quite a while now and composers or labels get paid via youtube contentID.
It has already been discussed as actualsizemusic points out in a thread from a major library. Everyone was afraid that the library in question had entered everyone’s music into the free music system when it turned out to only be their in house composers.