Music Publishing and Licensing Blog

Correct audio file links usage

This article is for publishers using their licensing store with the ‘Use Your Storage’ plan or audio files linking option. Some advice, examples and tips are provided to ensure that your audio files will have the correct URL address (link) format to work in your store, and correctly appear and play in your store’s waveform […]

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Artist speaks out against Tunecore changes

Music artist, composer Steven Cravis reports his complaints about some of the TuneCore services. This post follows an article posted on the DigitalMusicNews.com website under the title: An Artist Finally Gets the Guts to Take on TuneCore. The article starts with this introduction: This is the type of artist that used to be TuneCore’s biggest […]

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New features & functions

This article highlights the most important new features and functions made available to all publishing members and clients using their stores. Most have been developed and released on the live site over the last several months. The newest features and updates are listed from the top (newest) down: * Added Price column on the Sold […]

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Most popular genres in global store

Here’s a list of the most popular (prevalent) genres on the LicenseQuote Global Store page. The research, using the keywords search filter, was done in September 2013 to identify to most popular “top 50” genres found in the LQ Global Store. They are listed below from the most popular (at top) and on down, based […]

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Global store features for music supervisors and licensing buyers

This article provides updated information about the Global Music Store features and benefits of the global store single sign-on registration. Below is a list of the most important new features that will be of interest to music supervisors and licensing buyers coming to this page on the LicenseQuote site. Global Store Features Search music from […]

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Global music search: functions and features update

This article gives an overview of the recently updated music search functions and filter options on our new LQ Global Music Search Store.  The primary global search engine functions and features are listed and discussed with advice and tips on how publishers (in particular) can leverage these tools to make it easier for buyers to […]

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LicenseQuote activity report

This report is of interest to our publishing clients plus any interested music supervisors and licensing buyers. It provides an overview of the current LicenseQuote site activity and trends along with some related commentary. Primary content providers Number of active publishers – 239 (includes Free plan members) Accounts with storage plans – 54% (LQ integrated […]

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New site and licensing store with waveform player

Recently, on June 25, 2013, we released a new site and licensing store with waveform player and many new publisher and buyer-facing features and options. This article highlight some of the most important new features and updates. Rolling out the new site design Along with rolling out the new LicenseQuote site design, we also released […]

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Customer service for music licensing buyers

This article discusses what happens when music licensing buyers have questions or need support about their license inquiries and purchases made from publishers using the LicenseQuote service. Below we’ll review some of the most common issues along with our best suggested solutions. Login issues Wrong login place – Sometimes buyers try to login on the […]

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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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