Any more no-audition music library sites?

[chris-]

Hi all,

I am making money selling my music on ProductionTrax.com and have
recently uploaded everything to TuneSociety and Pond5 too, and
wondered if anyone knows of any other no-audition type music library
sites?

Pond5 does have an approval process, but they've approved everything
of mine so far! I tried contacting about 20 of the sites which require
an audition, and in a month have only heard back from 1 of them, and
they have a 50-track limit so might not do me much good.

Any info on other places where I can freely upload good quality
production-music (library music) to sell, would be appreciated! I have
about 450 tracks (including edits) so far and intend to keep creating
them!

thanks

Chris

[Danny T]

On Jan 11, 12:12*am, chris- > wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am making money selling my music on ProductionTrax.com and have
> recently uploaded everything to TuneSociety and Pond5 too, and
> wondered if anyone knows of any other no-audition type music library
> sites?
>
> Pond5 does have an approval process, but they've approved everything
> of mine so far! I tried contacting about 20 of the sites which require
> an audition, and in a month have only heard back from 1 of them, and
> they have a 50-track limit so might not do me much good.
>
> Any info on other places where I can freely upload good quality
> production-music (library music) to sell, would be appreciated! I have
> about 450 tracks (including edits) so far and intend to keep creating
> them!
>
> thanks
>
> Chris

Are you signed up for the royalty free stuff? I can't imagine that
being profitable but then again, I haven't tried it. My sister used
royalty free all the time on her productions of continuing education
video but she tells me she hardly pays anything for it. How does it
work for you?

[chris-]

On Jan 12, 10:20*am, Danny T > wrote:
> On Jan 11, 12:12*am, chris- > wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I am making money selling my music on ProductionTrax.com and have
> > recently uploaded everything to TuneSociety and Pond5 too, and
> > wondered if anyone knows of any other no-audition type music library
> > sites?
>
> > Pond5 does have an approval process, but they've approved everything
> > of mine so far! I tried contacting about 20 of the sites which require
> > an audition, and in a month have only heard back from 1 of them, and
> > they have a 50-track limit so might not do me much good.
>
> > Any info on other places where I can freely upload good quality
> > production-music (library music) to sell, would be appreciated! I have
> > about 450 tracks (including edits) so far and intend to keep creating
> > them!
>
> > thanks
>
> > Chris
>
> Are you signed up for the royalty free stuff? I can't imagine that
> being profitable but then again, I haven't tried it. My sister used
> royalty free all the time on her productions of continuing education
> video but she tells me she hardly pays anything for it. How does it
> work for you?

I sell royalty-free, no-PRO. I am making about $1 per year per track
so far at ProductionTrax, no idea what the other two will earn . . .
someone on another forum commented that Pond5 is the best of the
bunch, so I am hoping sales will be better there. I work fast (8 new
tracks (including edits) a day, part-time,), and enjoy the word so
it's worthwhile for me.

My tracks vary between $30 and $70, of which I get somewhere between
50% and 75%. I am getting consistant sales on ProductionTrax, and hope
the other two sites will work for me too. If I could find more similar
sites to upload to, I'd be doing even better!


Chris

[Danny T]

On Jan 11, 11:56*pm, chris- > wrote:
> On Jan 12, 10:20*am, Danny T > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jan 11, 12:12*am, chris- > wrote:
>
> > > Hi all,
>
> > > I am making money selling my music on ProductionTrax.com and have
> > > recently uploaded everything to TuneSociety and Pond5 too, and
> > > wondered if anyone knows of any other no-audition type music library
> > > sites?
>
> > > Pond5 does have an approval process, but they've approved everything
> > > of mine so far! I tried contacting about 20 of the sites which require
> > > an audition, and in a month have only heard back from 1 of them, and
> > > they have a 50-track limit so might not do me much good.
>
> > > Any info on other places where I can freely upload good quality
> > > production-music (library music) to sell, would be appreciated! I have
> > > about 450 tracks (including edits) so far and intend to keep creating
> > > them!
>
> > > thanks
>
> > > Chris
>
> > Are you signed up for the royalty free stuff? I can't imagine that
> > being profitable but then again, I haven't tried it. My sister used
> > royalty free all the time on her productions of continuing education
> > video but she tells me she hardly pays anything for it. How does it
> > work for you?
>
> I sell royalty-free, no-PRO. I am making about $1 per year per track
> so far at ProductionTrax, no idea what the other two will earn . . .
> someone on another forum commented that Pond5 is the best of the
> bunch, so I am hoping sales will be better there. I work fast (8 new
> tracks (including edits) a day, part-time,), and enjoy the word so
> it's worthwhile for me.
>
> My tracks vary between $30 and $70, of which I get somewhere between
> 50% and 75%. I am getting consistant sales on ProductionTrax, and hope
> the other two sites will work for me too. If I could find more similar
> sites to upload to, I'd be doing even better!
>
> Chris

Thanks for the accounting on those. I've wondered for a long time. It
is not something I really care to do but I do have an idea of what you
might do to find more of it.

I googled royalty free music and got 3000+ hits. Each one of those
companies sell the discs so I'd bet you could go to each of them to
solicit.

Licensing direct is not that hard. If you find yourself in the mood,
look up your local advertising companies in the area you are in and
give them a call. There are always a bunch of people that need music
and if you can really crank it out, you'll do great. The money is next
to nothing compared to 25 years ago but there is still enough to put
beer in the frig of your boat if you do it right.
Good luck to you and thanks again.

[Scott Dorsey]

Danny T > wrote:
>
>Licensing direct is not that hard. If you find yourself in the mood,
>look up your local advertising companies in the area you are in and
>give them a call. There are always a bunch of people that need music
>and if you can really crank it out, you'll do great. The money is next
>to nothing compared to 25 years ago but there is still enough to put
>beer in the frig of your boat if you do it right.
>Good luck to you and thanks again.

I have worked for a government agency which, every twenty years or so,
hires a bunch of musicians to come down and do a session and record a bunch
of production music for them. It's all "original music" but it's also
effectively free for them to use indefinitely with no needle-drop fees.

I'm surprised more production folks don't do this since it seems to avoid
the stigma of having the same background theme that the customer just heard
on a Viagra commercial, while not actually costing that much in the long run.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Danny T]

On Jan 12, 8:15*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> Danny T > wrote:
>
>
>
> >Licensing direct is not that hard. If you find yourself in the mood,
> >look up your local advertising companies in the area you are in and
> >give them a call. There are always a bunch of people that need music
> >and if you can really crank it out, you'll do great. The money is next
> >to nothing compared to 25 years ago but there is still enough to put
> >beer in the frig of your boat if you do it right.
> >Good luck to you and thanks again.
>
> I have worked for a government agency which, every twenty years or so,
> hires a bunch of musicians to come down and do a session and record a bunch
> of production music for them. *It's all "original music" but it's also
> effectively free for them to use indefinitely with no needle-drop fees.
>
> I'm surprised more production folks don't do this since it seems to avoid
> the stigma of having the same background theme that the customer just heard
> on a Viagra commercial, while not actually costing that much in the long run.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

When have you ever seen a production type think past the end of their
nose? I've seen places that are pulling in seriously big bucks that
are on the brink of bankruptcy. There is something universal about it
that seems to make spending on bling bling easy and spending on the
future not even a thought.

[david gourley[_2_]]

(Scott Dorsey) put forth the notion in...news:igkd2d$9h4$1
@panix2.panix.com:

> Danny T > wrote:
>>
>>Licensing direct is not that hard. If you find yourself in the mood,
>>look up your local advertising companies in the area you are in and
>>give them a call. There are always a bunch of people that need music
>>and if you can really crank it out, you'll do great. The money is next
>>to nothing compared to 25 years ago but there is still enough to put
>>beer in the frig of your boat if you do it right.
>>Good luck to you and thanks again.
>
> I have worked for a government agency which, every twenty years or so,
> hires a bunch of musicians to come down and do a session and record a
bunch
> of production music for them. It's all "original music" but it's also
> effectively free for them to use indefinitely with no needle-drop fees.
>
> I'm surprised more production folks don't do this since it seems to avoid
> the stigma of having the same background theme that the customer just
heard
> on a Viagra commercial, while not actually costing that much in the long
run.
> --scott


I'm beginning to do that very thing this year for some video work that I
do.

I have a small library of theme and stinger tracks, but didn't want to keep
buying more of them. I can play multiple instruments, so I've decided that
it would be more fun to just lay down some quick things in my studio
without any restriction whatsoever.

I know of a local guy that quoted over $5k to do a one-minute, exclusive
theme for a major corp. Something like that can turn into real money after
awhile.

david

[chris-]

On Jan 12, 1:41*pm, Danny T > wrote:
> On Jan 11, 11:56*pm, chris- > wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jan 12, 10:20*am, Danny T > wrote:
>
> > > On Jan 11, 12:12*am, chris- > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi all,
>
> > > > I am making money selling my music on ProductionTrax.com and have
> > > > recently uploaded everything to TuneSociety and Pond5 too, and
> > > > wondered if anyone knows of any other no-audition type music library
> > > > sites?
>
> > > > Pond5 does have an approval process, but they've approved everything
> > > > of mine so far! I tried contacting about 20 of the sites which require
> > > > an audition, and in a month have only heard back from 1 of them, and
> > > > they have a 50-track limit so might not do me much good.
>
> > > > Any info on other places where I can freely upload good quality
> > > > production-music (library music) to sell, would be appreciated! I have
> > > > about 450 tracks (including edits) so far and intend to keep creating
> > > > them!
>
> > > > thanks
>
> > > > Chris
>
> > > Are you signed up for the royalty free stuff? I can't imagine that
> > > being profitable but then again, I haven't tried it. My sister used
> > > royalty free all the time on her productions of continuing education
> > > video but she tells me she hardly pays anything for it. How does it
> > > work for you?
>
> > I sell royalty-free, no-PRO. I am making about $1 per year per track
> > so far at ProductionTrax, no idea what the other two will earn . . .
> > someone on another forum commented that Pond5 is the best of the
> > bunch, so I am hoping sales will be better there. I work fast (8 new
> > tracks (including edits) a day, part-time,), and enjoy the word so
> > it's worthwhile for me.
>
> > My tracks vary between $30 and $70, of which I get somewhere between
> > 50% and 75%. I am getting consistant sales on ProductionTrax, and hope
> > the other two sites will work for me too. If I could find more similar
> > sites to upload to, I'd be doing even better!
>
> > Chris
>
> Thanks for the accounting on those. I've wondered for a long time. It
> is not something I really care to do but I do have an idea of what you
> might do to find more of it.
>
> I googled royalty free music and got 3000+ hits. Each one of those
> companies sell the discs so I'd bet you could go to each of them to
> solicit.
>
> Licensing direct is not that hard. If you find yourself in the mood,
> look up your local advertising companies in the area you are in and
> give them a call. There are always a bunch of people that need music
> and if you can really crank it out, you'll do great. The money is next
> to nothing compared to 25 years ago but there is still enough to put
> beer in the frig of your boat if you do it right.
> Good luck to you and thanks again.

Thanks for your comments. I guess I'll give that a try!

Thanks for the other comments here.

Chris