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Music keywording and description techniques

This brief guide, contributed by Marina Garza of Tag Team Analysis, helps artists, composers and publishers understand proper tagging protocol so their music can be searched out from the sea of tracks presented for licensing. Marina says “after tagging music for Pandora and currently tagging and collecting metadata for licensing companies, I have accrued some [...]

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Live demo songs data file

This demo will let you download and preview the songs meta data file used in our Live Demo store on the LicenseQuote site.  As a publisher, you can use this to get familiar with the songs data format in case you’re interested in adding many songs for importing to your catalog and appearance in your [...]

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Digitrax Entertainment library approaches 10,000 cover tunes!

The Digitrax Entertainment online catalog now has 9,592 Covers of many standard and popular songs bridging all decades… from the early radio days up to the latest hits. The list now ranges from 1,2,3,4 (I Love You) on the first page, to Zip-Pa-De-Do-Dah on the last. Most of the songs (8,089) are Song/Vocal types, while [...]

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Custom Catalog plans

LicenseQuote now offers a new line of Custom Catalog plans with monthly and yearly pricing options. This provides a new range of options for publishers and libaries that need an economical solution for their online music business repertoire organizing, cataloging and management needs. As with all standard and custom LQ Store plans, once a Custom [...]

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Replace files with identical names

Recently we added a new feature which lets publishers replace their audio recording (MP3, AIF or WAV) files which have identical names. In your LicenseQuote publisher account, you will find this option in the Catalog section on the Upload/Files admin page. When you click the Upload Files button, the File Upload dialog will appear.  Towards [...]

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Promotion referral codes

We normally get some questions from newer publishers during their FREE trial period about the use of their account, setup and LicenseQuote powered store. Below is a question about applying a promotion code for licensing buyers to get discounts in your store, in case you wish to offer such option. Our answer provides a brief [...]

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How to customize your music license contract

This article covers the basic information and steps to customizing the standard (default) licensing contract that comes with each LicenseQuote publisher subscription account. How the license contract is set up Your LicenseQuote publisher account starts with one standard license contract (online template) which is auto-populated at time of sale with the specifics of the licensed [...]

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What will generate money for artists?

This article was contributed by Steven Cravis, a long time LicenseQuote publishing client who has learned from first-hand experience how to promote both his retail and commercial music licensing sales. CD Baby offers SoundCloud partnership feature Recently CDbaby announced it’s partnership and automatic send of CDbaby music to Soundcloud. All it takes is for each [...]

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Subscription music licensing business models

This article explores some of the approaches music publishers and library owners can use to offer subscription “blanket” music licensing terms for the commercial use of their music catalogs. Since this discussion involves the nature of Royalty Free music licensing practice, lets start with a summary of the main principals behind royalty free music. For [...]

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The facts on Ephemeral Music Use

Recently one of our Music Publishing And Licensing group members, Ron Mendelsohn, CEO at Megatrax Production Music, posted an interesting discussion about Ephermeral Music Use. His leading question in the discussion title was: “Can shows like ‘Good Morning America’, ‘Today’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ really use your music for free? Ron asked our members to [...]

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