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Excel Templates
Isn’t that beautiful? And a little confusing to the uninitiated. That’s only a small part of the Excel template guide for one of the services I’ll be using in July to manage my music publishing catalog.
I have to “qualify” to get an account with this service, which is a consortium for ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. So I have to send them “test files” until they determine that I know how to properly fill everything out. To be fair, that’s refreshing to see.
Identifyy
Another thing I’ve been doing this week is getting my older music into Identifyy, a ContentID-related service that looks for for uses of my recordings on YouTube. I’ve been with another company since 2013, but I know Identifyy does a better job of it. The interface of Identifyy is much easier to use to upload music than the other company. Identifyy also uses an Excel template for adding various titles, codes, and other metadata. I use this in conjunction with my Airtable database. I have about 1500 pieces of music to add to Identifyy and am about 600 in so far. Albums are fairly easy and quick to process, but singles are a grind. Any track longer than 10 minutes has to be edited down. I should be mostly done by the end of the month, but I have discovered that I occasionally have to perform a little manual cleanup on the Airtable database entries.
DISCO
I’ve been a DISCO.AC paying customer for over three years. DISCO is a service I use to pitch my recordings to libraries, sync agencies, and music supervisors. The interface was a little confusing for me at first, as I didn’t totally understand how all the pieces fit together, but I get it now.
Starting in July, 2024, most of the music I have at DISCO will be replaced. I’ll be focusing entirely on new music and trying to attract the aforementioned libraries, sync agencies, and music supervisors to my brand of unique ambient soundscaping.
Short Bursts of Energy
I continue to live-stream new music to YouTube / Facebook/ Twitch. A recent example is last night’s “Short Bursts of Energy”. I like working this way. I like creating totally unique sound recordings and then using my visual artworks.
It’s not a popularity contest. A lot of those livestreams are in the single digits, even after a week. But then they get edited into sound recordings and released to streaming services and find a larger audience. And some day they may get used in a film or tv show or commercial where they’re heard by millions. You just never know.
I’ll write more in the future about my philosophy of creating unique audio recordings.
That’s all for this week!
Find out more about me at https://www.markrushton.com
Merch and artworks at https://www.markrushtongallery.com