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| URL: | http://www.beatmelody.com | |
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| Twitter: | beatmelody1 | |
| Facebook: | ||
| Accepting Submissions: | Yes | |
| Submit Online: | Yes | |
| Submit By Mail: | No | |
| Submissions Reviewed: | No | |
| Types Accepted: |
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| Charge For Submissions: | No | |
| Up Front Money: | No | |
| Royalty Free: (non-broadcast use) |
No | |
| Exclusivity: (Exclusive, Non, Semi) (Semi = Free to place on own but not with another library) |
Non-Exclusive | |
| Re-Title: | No | |
| Set Own Price: | No | |
| Contract Length: | None | |
| Payment Schedule: | Unknown | |
| License Fee Split: (writer/library) |
60/40 | |
| PRO Split Based on 100%: (writer/library writer/library/publisher or writer) |
100/0 | |
| Requires Licensee To File Cue Sheet: | No | |
| Pays On Blanket License: | ||
| YouTube Content ID: | ||
| Active Site: | No | |
| Offers Subscriptions To Clients: | ||
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From their website:
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Beatmelody.com – is under Review
Unfortunately, we have to consider whether to close down beatmelody due to its high overheads
If anyone is interested in purchasing the domain name, website / technology and twitter account and take the business forward – please email us at – mrguitarjoe@yahoo.co.uk with your best offer.
– We apologise to all the artists that have joined but we have been unable to promote successfully to license seekers – we are trying to resolve this with our financial backers – the best way forward would be for a
Music business person with connections to take over-
Firstly, I would like to say that I did not submit my website to
musiclibraryreport. I am guessing that Brian or Thomas submitted us.
Since I am forced to defend Beatmelody – I will cover a few comments that have been
made here. Before I do this, I would like to remind Brian and Tom that we have records
of every email received and sent with dates.
In Brians case, we tried to advise him not to
register because from his questioning, we could see that he was just looking for negatives –
we have a dated email to proove this. In actual fact, we were very pleasant until we saw the nasty comments on this blog.
In Toms case, we recieved this message: Hello! I’d like to remove my account from Beat Melody. I want to try to limit the number of non-exclusive libraries with which I’m involved for the time being. Thanks very much for your time! Best, Thomas
Also note that Thomas had already commented on this blog before sending this – We keep check with google regularly so posting slanderous comment about our business will be noticed.
Beatmelody only opened it’s doors to artist music submissions 2 months ago-
we are new – We opened our doors to artists to join and submit music before completion
of our website and before our website launch which has worked fine up until now and
we have been very pleased and surprised with the music from the artists that have
joined.
The criticisms about our website and us not being able to handle the Artist music
is rubbish –
Our website from a developers view is capable of processing every aspect of a license
transaction automatically and we are still deep in the development of a new music
license calculator which covers every usage imaginable.
At present the registration form is generic with a D.O.B field – this is not our
idea, just development improvisation- we will be simplifying the registration process
– up until now, only one person has complained about this so this has been a low
priority.
Cosmetically, our website may look a bit rough round the edges but that will
improve. Beatmelody is currently undergoing major development heart surgery.
Our main interest is not new artists registering – we are mainly focusing on
promoting the artists we have now. We have around 60 artists onboard and will probably
take on 40 more so we will be picky. We have communicated well with our artists and
they are aware of our progress.
As for Brian and Other who both registered around the same time and cancelled straight
after at around the same time- they have just set us up. We messed up with our communication.
Brian and other did push us and we took it personally which is unprofessional. I
am a musician so i need to be careful with my sensitive side.
At the end of the day, we are actually on the side of Brian and Other. It’s
a pity, they judged us so harshly based on their ill founded suspicions. We have
copy’s of all emails with dates and actually we became a bit rude after noticing
this blog and the nasty comments.
We will be posting this message elsewhere with all emails to backup our claims
just incase the moderators decide not to accept our view.
I personally feel that this website has allowed 2 of it’s Members to maliciously
bully and damage our website business on the grounds of a response to an email and
your website has provided a platform to do this. Pointless and very nasty.
Mark @ Beatmelody. I just noticed your reply in the spam folder. It got there because there were posters coming from your IP address pretending to be anonymous users and spamming the ratings. The end result was that I banned your IP address. I will now un-ban it. I’ve been running this site since August of 2009 and I can tell you the absolute worse thing a library owner can do is to not respond in an honest and straight forward manner. We are all composers here and are all on the same side. You will find that just about everyone here (with a few nutty exceptions) are very open to having an open, respectful and honest dialog.
All library owners get free access so if you will e-mail me through the contact form I will send you the instructions for that access.
Mark, I did not post here before receiving your response message as you just claimed…that doesn’t even make sense–look at my first post on this page: I copied and pasted your rude response to my request of being taken off Beat Melody in my first post on this page.
That nasty response of yours is what spurred me to write my review and give you a 1 star rating in the first place, man! If I had never heard back from you, and you had politely or silently complied, I guarantee you that I would have never bothered writing a single word about Beat Melody here.
I did not initiate this Beat Melody page on here. Again, Mark, I have no desire to go on a crusade to defame Beat Melody, but I wanted to let fellow MLR members see how I was treated by Beat Melody so that they could be better informed.
And just for the sake of absolute clarity to any people who may be coming into this halfway–I want to emphasize that I was only on Beat Melody’s roster for about a week or so. Listen, Mark might be a total pro at getting his clients placements and communicating with music supervisors–I didn’t stick around long enough to find out. But after treating potential clients unprofessionally, giving yourself false votes on this site, posting while posing as some third party who was unconnected to Beat Melody, getting your IP banned by Art, and trying to further distort the facts in your last post…I doubt it.
Mark,
With all due respect, I did not start the initial until I read a response to kingseamus email and you emailed me directly as well. I am with kingseamus and if you read my previous post, I am NOT here to defame your company but just to inform others of my own experience. I simply asked you to delete my profile but your company NEVER responded until much later after my repeated request. Also for the record, I’ve never personally been rude to your company when making a request or exchanging email. I have all the record to prove this as well. This is seriously getting ridiculous and sad to see your company behave like this.
Another thing to add. I did not initially complain about the date of birth. I simply inquired about it but until you finally responded in the above post. A simple explanation from the get go would have solved all this.
As far as I know, Beatmelody is run by musicians and not business men. Also they are just starting up and still developing their website. My experience is good. You paid nothing to join and you had nothing to loose. So why did you create problems with your mistrust?
No problems created on our part, Mark.
I won’t speak for Brian, but I got the feeling that the site was ill-equipped to deal with licensing issues and not the best way to represent my songs (because of the site’s many typos and general layout). That vague “mistrust,” as you put it, was completely validated when I received that snarky, immature, and needlessly spiteful e-mail from Beat Melody. I believe I definitely DID have something to lose in terms of being on Beat Melody’s roster…nobody wants to be associated with a company that communicates with other people in such a wholly unprofessional manner.
Mark, I’m guessing you work at or with Beat Melody, since clicking your profile links directly back to Beat Melody. Look, I’m not on a warpath to defame Beat Melody, but I joined the Music Library Report so that I can become better informed about the quality of the libraries and licensing companies out there, and increase my revenue as a freelance composer. I’ve learned a lot from the reviews here, and I’m going to do my best to share my experiences so that I too can better inform people of what’s out there.
From what you are saying. You didn’t really give Beatmelody a chance. You Registered and then decided to Cancel and didn’t include any songs. This could have been seen as time wasting and rude in itself. Also, there are more typos with your comments than on the Beatmelody site. Another thing, Beatmelody hosts all Mp3’s. They only use Soundcloud drop box for high quality uploads, if a license song.
That’s true in a sense, Jane. I certainly never gave Beat Melody the chance to promote or license my songs (I did upload 2, as well as the high quality versions), but I hope I was explicit about that earlier in my posts. When I canceled, I did so politely and with a brief explanation. I don’t see too many typos in my comments, Jane, but good on you if you caught some.
Anyways Jane, this is what happens in the real world when you have a bad experience with a business. This is why we have sites and institutions like MLR, Consumer Reports, Yelp, and the Bureau for Better Business. If a business, a website, or an establishment acts responsibly, then potential customers deserve to hear so. If they treat someone poorly, then other consumers deserve to hear that too.
Mark and Jane,
I have never once been rude when inquiring or messaging. Reason I did not upload music was because being your company is new and things were not setup completely on your end. You told me this yourself Mark. Also, I felt some questions were not beieng answered. Also, just because someone does not upload music because one has some reservation makes them rude? Come on seriously. All I wanted was asking for my profile to be deleted at the end. Why the childish remark guys on both of our end? You guys never sent me confirmation email stating my profile was deleted until few days ago after I messaged you guys. Also, why are you being so discreet about the date of birth issue? I’m not being demanding but was simply inquiring as any potential client would. The more a company is unwilling to disclose information about certain things, that makes anybody be on guard and raise a red flag. Also, I seriously wish you guys would putting false vote(s)in here. Voting here is for user’s end and not people who work for the company. I am not here to get you guys. Seriously, I wish you guys best of luck but what turned me off was the lack of professionalism on your company’s end. This has nothing to do with lack of not knowing about business. Please treat people with respect. All of this could of been easily been avoided if your company communicated throughout with me.
Vote spams have been deleted. All came in within a few minutes of each other and with very similar IP addresses.
Mark,
Given that your link is to beatmelody music, and that the head of Beatmelody is a Mark Harrison, I’m presuming you are that Mark.
Other music library owners on here use their own name and interact openly with participants. If you want to build credibility that would be a better way to go about it rather than using your own first name, linking to your own website and then talking about yourselves in the third person as though you are only mildly acquainted with yourselves.
Coupled with the anecdotes from Brian and Kingseamus, you are not doing a great job of inspiring confidence in those who might want to submit music to you.
If you want to survive in business you’d best learn some ethics, adopt professional behaviour and mature very quickly.
I was the one that PMed kingseamus.
I initially registered also and set up a profile. I never uploaded music. We did exchange emails couple times. Their profile specifically asks you to enter date of birth (to my knowledge this had to be entered to setup a profile). So I asked them 3 separate occassions what the purpose of that data was and never got a reply. Last reply was they would temporarily turn off my page and would turn it back on once I uploaded the music. I then politely wrote back stating to delete my profile completely and let me know. To this date, never got a reply back.
Very glad you contacted me in the first place, Brian. I hope they comply with you soon; they’ve really lost all credibility in my eyes.
Hey these guys crack me up. I sent another request for deletion since no response and look what Beatmelody wrote: “We don’t have time deal with your stupidity. We have already sent you an email confirming your account deletion. If you don’t check your emails then this is not our problem. What did it cost you to join beatmelody? Nothing! You didn’t even upload any music. Get a life. We have blocked your IP from registering again in the future. You must think you are the only musician in the world! I am a musician and lead guitarist and vocalist in 3 bands. I don’t wine about a free service. You are insane!”
That is hilarious! My god…I have never encountered such an illegitimate and inarticulate business owner (I’m assuming it’s one guy ‘running’ the whole site) with such abysmal social skills. Super (morbidly) curious now about the three bands he’s in, and what they sound like.
I registered with Beat Melody a little over a week ago or so–kind of on impulse. The 60/40 license fee split looked attractive, and I sent only two of my tracks just to test the waters [this was of course, foolish of me, and I should, in the future, only submit to licensing companies that I’ve fully researched and that I’m certain are reputable].
A couple of days ago I received a PM from a fellow MLR member who recognized my username on Beat Melody’s artist roster, and asked my opinion of Beat Melody. This drove me to take a closer look, and aside from the site’s amateurish graphics, I noticed pages riddled with typos and incomplete sentences. Additionally, their upload process revolves around a Soundcloud drop box, instead of some proprietary streaming or file upload system.
I decided I didn’t trust the site, and politely messaged them asking to be removed (under the pretense that I just wanted to consolidate the number of music libraries I was currently involved with). To their credit, I was removed fairly quickly, but then I received this e-mail from Beat Melody: “ok, no problem, We deleted your account and your songs and stopped promoting you on social networks. Almost finished deleting all links we posted to your profile page. Yes, we promote our artist but anyway you cant please everyone. No one else does this. We have also blocked your ip from registering again. Please don’t waste our time or yours. You must think your so funny.”
How can a company that types out site descriptions and e-mails as if they were texts or casual IM’s possibly be expected to successfully negotiate deals with producers and music supervisors? If this is the level of maturity that Beat Melody displays, then how can they be trusted to navigate complex situations on our behalf? Snarky e-mails with broken grammar do not instill confidence in potential clients and composers.
Hopefully this information will be of some use to MLR deciding whether or not they want to work with Beat Melody.
D’oh! I meant to type “Hopefully this information will be of some use to MLR *members* deciding whether or not they want to work with Beat Melody” in that last sentence.
Thanks. That’s useful. Sounds pretty pathetic.