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I tried to change my password but got a very hard password in exchange which was impossible to work out.This was over a month age.In the meantime I had an email to say I had a song offer.Ive been trying for a month to contact Youlicense with no success.I cannot go ahead with this offer but probably too late now.Could somebody please get back to me so I can get into my account.regards
DO NOT USE! I only subscribed to the 6 month trial back in 2012 and then asked them to cancel. My fault for not checking, they continued taking the subscription fee every 6 months since. Tried contacting them again on the site, via facebook etc… Nothing worked as earlier this year they took money AGAIN! Asked my credit card company to stop paying them so will see if that has worked. Bunch of crooks. You don’t continue to take money from people for a service you are not providing and then make it as difficult as possible to communicate on top of it. In this day in age it is very easy to communicate and I imagine they know exactly what they are doing. There could be loads of people in similar situations paying without knowing.
I use paypal to pay them and there is a spot that says subscription payments or something like that in the paypal preferences. I am surprised your credit card company can’t do something about it. Sounds like a very frustrating problem, I hate crap like that. Personally I use them more for there licensing service for my website then for like a “music library.” I wanted to be able to license music from my website, and keep all the profits. The choice was between Youlicense and LicenseQuote, and it might be something I am going to have to re-evaluate in a year or two. I don’t like doing business with people that ignore or not answer any communications. I am a big fan of customer service and I know I could get a hold of someone from LicenseQuote, not so much YouLicense
I’ve had some luck with YL lately but communication with them is non-existent. I’ve written to them several times with no luck and I’m wondering if anyone else knows of a way to get in touch with them that is not via their contact form or Twitter?
I remember calling the owner when I was setting it up last year. I think I found his number somewhere on the site
Thanks Edouardo, I’ll keep on looking.
it’s been a ghost town over there for the last year. The few offers I get are monthly at best and are typically for $5 and $10. Negotiating rarely works if you ask for double the offer or more in my experience, and do not justify any subscription price…
I finally cancelled mine this morning and won’t look back!
Lots of bad words on YL these last few months… I pay the 30$/6 month. But I do not do this for their rubish and inexistent “opportunitie” or as a Library, but for the service of self-licensing…
What was bothering me was the no-watermark on the tracks. I found a turnaround to that – In your account, on your list of songs, click “re-upload”, then enter in the “direct Link” box an external link to your watermarked track (I use the server of my WordPress website for that but you can use any other server for which you have a direct url for your watermarked files).
When visitors play it on YL, or on the widget on your site, they only will hear the watermarked version. When they purchase the licence or buy the mp3, YL can only provide what is on their own server, right?, i.e. the non-watermarked files you had previously uploaded.
Problem solved 🙂
So is this site a “pay-to-play” site?
Last time I looked (which was quite a while ago admitedly) they had limited free accounts (upload only 15 tracks, limited number of pitches) and paid accounts which basically lifted those restrictions.
From what I remember it wasn’t really a music library per se, they would just post a list of “opportunities” that you had to manually pitch your music to and then cross your fingers! .. A bit like how sites like Sonicbids work, I suppose.
Big waste of time in my opinion.
PS: Art, I’m sorry about that post in the forums about pay-to-play sites a few weeks back – it’s been a long while since I’ve been here and I didn’t realise you exclude those sites from MLR these days – good move too, I’ve now removed my music from most of those sites now.
Thought I had cancelled my subscription about a year and a half ago, found out recently that they have still been taking out the 6 monthly subscription fee. They do not appear in my paypal subscription list, have tried to get in touch with them multiple times (Email, facebook, via their site, via paypal) to cancel but no response. DO NOT SIGN UP AND GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY, YOU WILL HAVE A BATTLE TO STOP THE PAYMENTS AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK!
Notify your credit card company and Paypal. Tell them that you tried to contact the company to stop automatic payments, without success, and that the payments are not authorized.
went from a site with promise to a glorified s**m site, big mistake giving these guys money and can not to be trusted with your music; dead site so dont expect to get paid.
Anyone have any actual insight/knowledge as to what happened with this site? My guess when I first started seeing a slowdown was that there was a glut of music, but it seems to be more than that now that so many have had the same experience in the same time-frame.
me, too. now just have 10 free tracks with them. zero sales.
I’ve had a decent amount of success licensing music with YouLicense in the past, but the site appears to be completely dead now. No new opportunities have been posted in over 6 months so I assume they just gave up or the interest died. They still billed me, however, for my account, which was ridiculous. Currently trying to figure out how to delete my account with them.
Hello IV ! I’m experiencing the same thing. I did well in the past but the last several months have been pretty well dead for me also. I’m also thinking about canceling but will keep the free account and put up my top sellers and change them periodically, I think one can have 15 tracks with the free account. To delete your account, the following info is from their FAQ :
How do I cancel my subscription?
In order to cancel your subscription you will need cancel it via Paypal. Once you do this, your YouLicense subscription will be cancelled automatically.
To cancel your subscription via PayPal, follow these steps:
Log in to your PayPal account.
Click History at the top of the page.
Select Subscriptions from the Show menu.
Click Details to view the details of a specific Subscription Creation.
Click Cancel Subscription.
Click Cancel Subscription again.
Please note that you will still be able to use your subscription service until your next payment date.
My experience has been the same, unfortunately.
Come to think of it I haven’t had any offers in sixth months or so, and I used to have maybe one per month. How unfortunate.