This month, Marina and I took an informal survey on the use of SoundAlike metadata (the names of similar/related artists and musical works) in our industry. Ad placement, the perennial wellspring of music careers and the burgeoning tech distro scene alike, has long had a symbiotic relationship with SoundAlikes, a longstanding musical tradition with […]
This month we take a quick tour through the world of Metadata Quality Control, the most exciting way to enjoy a life lived in spreadsheets. We focus on problems that arise as libraries grow larger and inconsistencies abound, with our signature TTA tips and tricks to help you make sense of the mess. Working […]
This month, Marina and I chatted with SourceAudio, Harvest Media, DISCO and CadenzaBox to get a lay of the land for online production music distribution, offering our tips for making the most of each platform. If production music placement is a goldmine, many of us are hot on the Oregon Trail right now. […]
In the past few months, much hay has been made online over the prospective rise of NFTs, the crypto-artistic collectibles that, depending on who you ask, are either here to wholly transform the modern digital art and music industry for good, fall out as a fad in no time, or rapidly lead to the complete […]
We are 7 months into the pandemic and for many in the music industry, we have encountered challenges and changes from our business models to how we work on a daily basis. This is a brief study with articles that may be of interest to members of the production music industry. OUTLOOK 2020: the […]
When finding strategies for curating your music and making effective playlists, there are some factors that can help you get off to a good start. The idea of setting up all of your tracks in playlist albums can be quite a challenging task. However, with these basic steps, you will be able to group your […]
In this Blog, we will discuss the term “Urban” and how the music industry is re-thinking and eliminating the use of Urban as a genre of music to describe rap and hip hop.
Looking for a strategy to efficiently organize tracks that are cinematic in nature for better groupings and successful searches? In this blog, I provide some pointers for structuring your key-wording system to better group your cinematic tracks.
What is MIR and how is it used to categorize, manipulate and even create music?
First off, if you don’t know what blockchain technology is, welcome to the club. There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about the technology and concepts that can be difficult to grasp. In short, Blockchain is a distributed and immutable (unchanging over time or unable to be changed) ledger, allowing you to track almost […]