TTA is headed to Austin on Wednesday, March 16th to catch the tail end of SXSW. We would love to see you! Reach out to us if you would like to meet up anytime between late Wednesday and Sunday! We’re loading up the TTA tour bus with tagging playlists, iLok dongles and our virtual […]
Last month, TTA sent out an industry-wide call to production music libraries, asking you all for your best and worst experiences with music metadata. (If you haven’t contributed yet, we’d still love to hear from you!!) TagTeam is lucky enough to sit at the intersection of several industries—music, tech, film/TV, speculative spreadsheet stockpiling—and as […]
We’ve kept it frosty in 2021! For another year spent at home, TTA has spent more time than ever out in the winter wonderland of Music Metadata. This month we take a quick look back at the trail we’ve blazed over the last 12 months: SOUNDALIKES IN METADATA: A SURVEY Our best-read post […]
This article is part two in a multi-part series on metadata for online music search platforms. Last month we offered a quick-start guide to SourceAudio, and will be offering tips and tricks with each article on how to get the most out of your metadata on each platform. For help choosing an online search platform […]
This is the first in a multi-part series on metadata for online music search platforms. In it we will go over the best features of each service, as well as tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your search metadata on each platform. For help choosing an online search platform for […]
This month Marina and I put together a guide for libraries getting their start in DIY music publishing. We cover the basics of good library metadata practice, including how to tag your tracks, prep your files for delivery, and deliver to a client, distributor or subpublisher. For more information on selecting a good publishing platform, […]
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, 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 […]