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I’ve had many placements over the years on top shows and yet have never had any results from 2.5 years with T & F. This isn’t proof in and of itself, but one thing I notice… if my membership lapses, all of a sudden I receive more music requests from them. If they’re paying $50,000 for a placement, in many cases they could get some of the artists they reference. Also, many of their requests are at the other end of the spectrum $500 for a song that sounds like Billie Eilish – not worth the time or effort. There is never a record of any placement that they’ve made and no proof that anything was ever submitted. Please stop giving these guys your money!!
We’re a publisher (with numerous successful placements elsewhere) and we’ve been submitting tracks to their pitches for years and never seen so much as a shortlist.
As various people say above, it’s very fishy that they show so few examples of their successful placements. We are starting to suspect that their business model is all about getting entry level writers to shell out 50€ – 250€ and very little to do with actually going to the trouble of getting placements. Not to mention that asking for something that sounds like Coldplay or Drake while offering equivalent of library rates (ie €500 all in) is laughable
ps. Not surprised that Happy Ears (above) says that Roba are simply cutting and pasting Tracks And Fields pitches – another company full of rather suspect hot air 😉
I’ve been a part of this for two years now. It started off with personal emails to me asking for tracks in my specific style (but I needed to join). I did, the emails stopped and I’ve not had a successful placement as yet.
Having read the above comments, I won’t be renewing now.
same thing here Mark
Definitely a suspect site. They even overcharged me (for my annual membership) and refused to provide a refund. I was with them for a few years, nothing ever came of it. Basically, most of these sites that require you to pay are a waste of time and money (it’s like buying a lottery ticket). Building real contacts and networking is a much better use of a composer’s time.
Thank you for sharing! This is what I was suspecting too.
Hi
I tried it for 2 years and nothing happened for me. I decided to quit. I can’t recommand it and i can’t say if it’s a scam or not. By the way, i wanted to check their works on Youtube for example, but i couldn’t find any official channel. And nothing tangible elsewhere. Please let me know if you find some real stuff about this company. Hope this comment helped you.
I got to say that site looks very fishy to me and I read reviews elsewhere suggesting it to be. I’ve never heard of anyone having a placement though them. Please let us know if you ever get any placements. As I mentioned before the German library Roba was sending out “music request” just straight out copied from this site, which is kinda like fishy on top of being fishy 🙂
Hello,
tracks and fields is not a real library – it is more a pitch portal from Germany.
They are looking for tracks for european countries. Most of them are Poland, Romania, Germany and Switzerland.
There is a deadline 2 days ahead mostly. The descriptions are short and almost always with a reference track on youtube.
I have a basic account (49 EUR a year) and I am a member more than a year. With a basic membership you can submit 5 tracks per month.
I didn’t get any placement yet, but I had in this time 4 tracks in their shortlist.
The average of their announcements is about 4 tracks a week. The music they are looking for is between popular music with vocals to film score for some imagefilms.
I think if I don’t get any placement till the end of my second year of my membership I will quit.