Some great questions from musicformedia over at filmandgamecomposers.com:<\/p>\n
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?<\/B><\/p>\n
We started out our music career as composers for TV shows and commercials, radio ads and video games. We would always give our clients 3 or 4 different ideas to choose from for their spot. These were all fairly well-developed ideas. They would choose one and the rest would go on the shelf. Our first collection of royalty free music (published in 1996) was a collection of these alternate choices.<\/p>\n
Once that collection started selling we realized we needed to create music specifically for our production music library.<\/p>\n
If you were creating your library of stock music from scratch again, what would you do differently?<\/B><\/p>\n
I think I would have kept track of the different mixes better. In the old days once a mix was done the set up was pretty much lost forever. Now we can recall any mix and have it come back sounding exactly the way it did a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
Do you think there is a set “package” of types of music you should upload? What I mean by this is, if you sell a lot of music, is there a certain amount of of types that sell more than others – ie. should you create a library of 50 songs (each with a 60 second edit, 30 second edit, 15 second edit and 2 or 3 loops), maybe 4-5 sound effect bundles – like a “Video Game” Sound Effect Bundle, “Horror Movie” Sound Effect Bundle etc. I hope this makes sense – my general question is, should you be creating a set amount of each type to maximise sales?<\/B><\/p>\n
Bundles are great, the more creative the better. In my experience many of our customers go for the full length track but people who just need a loop for their website will buy one or two of these from the package. Lots of people buy the 60 second version because it is usually a bit cheaper. <\/p>\n
We have some composers who upload bundles of music loops and corresponding button sounds. Music and complimenting sound effects is a good idea (we did this with our Horror! collection and it sells very well).
\nIn your case maybe some nice ambient nature sounds to go along with your piano music.<\/p>\n
Some advice on pricing your packages; if your full length track is 1:30 I would price it the same as your 60 second version.
\nIn general I would price the 60 second version of the tracks close to or the same as the full length track price.<\/p>\n
How long are your tracks usually? I have a lot of 20-30 second piano pieces, but I’m not sure they’re long enough.<\/B><\/p>\n
This is considered fairly short, you might want to extend them. 20 seconds is good for a website, most of our 20 second loops go for $9.95.
\nThe 30 second version might be $14.95 or $19.95 but you really want to get up to at least 60 seconds for most uses.<\/p>\n
I’ve noticed a few full sized scores for films – ie. 10-15mins tracks – do you sell any of these yourself, and do you find they sell well?<\/B><\/p>\n
Most full scores are actual symphony recordings of classical music. At least on our websites I haven’t seen any composers uploading anything over 5 or 6 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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