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When Composers of Royalty Free Music Die What Happens to Their Music and Earnings? 6

Jun

2012

This article is for royalty free music composers specifically but is good advice for anybody in business. Composers who are distributing their royalty free music catalog via online websites like ours need to take into consideration the frailty of the human condition and the fact that anything can happen to you and it could happen ...

Free Online and Offline Audio File Conversion 2

Oct

2010

At Partners In Rhyme we deliver all of the audio our customers order in WAV format. Some of our customers need their audio in MP3 format and we help them with instructions on how to easily convert their audio to any format they need using free iTunes software. For those of your who do not ...

Interview with Sound Designer for Red Dead Redemption 1

Sep

2010

Read Dead Redemption is one of my favorite PS3 games, not only for the game play but for the beautiful environments, musical soundtrack and flawless sound design. I am posting a link to an in depth interview the audio director of Red Dead Redemption. The interview is by Miguel Isaza for designingsound.org When I saw ...

Interview with Music Supervisor Greg Debonne 9

Sep

2010

Arron, the owner at PlayItLoudMusic.com has kindly given me permission reprint his interview with Music Supervisor Greg Debonne here in its entirety. Interview with Gregory Debonne Gregâ€™s credentials can be found on numerous reality shows with networks including MTV, VH1, The Discovery Channel, SPIKE, A&E, Lifetime, BRAVO, to a name a few. As a music ...

Pump Audio Demands (A lot) More Money From Their Composers 8

May

2009

Pump Audio has sent out the notice posted below to all of their contributors. It basically says that from now on their split will be 35% to the artists and 65% to Getty Images. It would be surprising if this was a Pump Audio decision but it is definitely not surprising that this is a ...

12 Websites Where Musicians Can Pitch Their Music to Producers 30

Jan

2009

There are lots of royalty free music sites out there to submit your music to but there are more and more sites appearing that actually pitch your music to certain projects and producers for free or for a fee. There are also a few crowd-sourcing / collaboration type sites here. These sites are distinctly different ...

Royalty Free Composer Tips: Creating A Music Library pt2

Jul

2008

Some great questions from musicformedia over at filmandgamecomposers.com: When you first created your library was it all music you had already made, or was it stuff that you created specifically for the purpose of selling in a stock music library? We started out our music career as composers for TV shows and commercials, radio ads ...

Royalty Free Music Composer Tip: How To Build A Catalog 3

Jul

2008

I have been selling royalty free music for more than 10 years now. I receive composer submissions and demos on a daily basis. I also see what sells and what customers are requesting everyday. I don’t often give advise to composers but thought I would post some basic observations in case it is of any ...

Royalty Free Music Composer Tip: Keywords & Descriptions 1

Jun

2008

Here’s a great question that I found on the Film and Game Composer’s Forum from a member who is a roylaty free music composer: "Does anyone have any kind of knowledge about keywords and descriptions on royalty free sites? Does it REALLY help sales? I mean considering the extra time required to think up and ...

Royalty Free Music Composer Tip: Don’t Devalue Your Catalog

May

2008

With increased competition in the royalty free music marketplace there are lots of sites popping up that are selling music for ridiculously low fees. They are asking composers to upload their tracks promising them only 40% or 45% of a $10.00 fee. The composer would take home whopping $4.50 for a high quality full length ...