Dealing with music dealers
December 28, 2004 8:37 AM   Subscribe

I'm pursuing selling some of my songs. Anyone have any experience good/bad with Taxi?
posted by ZenMasterThis to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Taxi is fine for cultivating leads, as long as you know there are a lot of flakes and hucksters in the listings. It's cool as long as you do your homework.

I sold one-off rights to two songs for soundtracks through there and did fine (neither flick made it to distribution as far as I know, but I got paid, so hey), but I've had friends that wasted a lot of time dealing with groups that didn't really know what they were doing.

If these songs aren't going to be a one time thing, then I say go for it. There's lots of good stuff in there.

I letmy subscription lapse a few years ago. I know there are others...
posted by chicobangs at 9:29 AM on December 28, 2004


Are you selling songs, or are you selling masters? Or both?
posted by anathema at 10:09 AM on December 28, 2004


Your mantra should be "License," not "Sell."
posted by anathema at 10:09 AM on December 28, 2004


IMO it's worth joining TAXI just to attend their annual Road Rally conference in LA. You can learn a ton, and $300 is nothing compared to other conferences. I learned more useful info at one Road Rally than I did in five years of going to SXSW.

Overall, TAXI has a pretty decent rep for being a mediator between indies and the commericial music industry. Bear in mind that the TV/movie listings are part of the TAXI Dispatch service, which is more expensive.

You might also want to look into PumpAudio and Magnatune, both of which do non-exclusive licensing for indie artists.
posted by scottandrew at 12:53 PM on December 28, 2004


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