Library Placement Question

[matto]

It means you can approve/disapprove every placement. No library that's gonna make you actual money is gonna let you do that, because it basically makes it impossible for them to do business.
I hope that music supervisor has a huge personal collection of music or can write his own in a pinch, cause he's gonna have a hard time finding music libraries that adhere to his 'standards'.

He is a composer, supervisor and instrumentalist with 78 film/TV titles and mostly spends his time securing licenses directly from composers.

Thanks for the interpretation Matto...

Oh okay that's what i figured...he's anti library then. He works directly with composers so the more composers sign exclusive deals the less music is available to him.
Once you realize this and put his opinion in that perspective, I think it is completely understandable and valid. Whether it's the right advice to a composer depends on the composer's situation.

Working directly with music supervisors is a perfectly feasible approach if you want to spend a good chunk of your time marketing your music yourself and building the relationships with those supervisors.
Keep in mind that all worthwhile music libraries have built connections with *many* music supers and you would have to build relationships with at least about half as many as all of your libraries have combined to make more money...(and also keep in mind that some of the bigger names working on the more lucrative programming may be difficult to access for the individual composer representing only his/her own music).
At any rate, This will take a LOT of time and work under the best of circumstances (meaning if you are good at it and enjoy this type of work).

I don't, I enjoy writing *music*, so I prefer 'outsourcing' that work to people who *are* good at it and do enjoy it...

YMMV...

[peeyo]

I'm with matto. I enjoy writing music, I'll let someone else handle the placement duties! I have a hard enough time keeping up with copyrighting and registering songs with ASCAP, booking gigs, paying bills, and just keeping up with life in general. I can't imagine having to worry about pitching my songs to music supers as well
I am going to give this library a whirl, because I'm doing this to make things happen with my music, not sit around and wait for what I think "might" be a better deal, but I think exclusivity makes good business sense. I have songs with another exclusive library, and my contact there made a good point, basically saying, "why would I want to sign a song that could also be signed with a competing library?" I think it kills their incentive to push the song because of the potential mess it could create.
I'm not coming from too much experience here, and probably babbling, but the opinions I've read so far about exclusive libraries makes sense to me
Sincerely,
The Babbler