Suggestion to improve Taxi?

[matto]

Hey Nick,to be honest with you, nobody in the music business cares about leadsheets anymore, except for maybe the musicians who'll eventually record the song...if it's even recorded by live musicians.And since it's such a LONG way from a Taxi forward to a cut, providing a leadsheet at the forwarding stage would be putting the cart way before the horse. I can guarantee you no A&R person or publisher would look at it...not even the ones who could actually read one. As far as sharing leadsheets with fellow Taxi members...I think you'd find that there are very few among them who still even make leadsheets (whether handwritten or computer generated).So to me it seems major overkill for Taxi to implement such a feature... if there's only a handful of members who would ever use it, you know?Matt

[hummingbird]

Quote:Hey that would be a cool feature!!And I have another idea:It would be wonderful if we could “watch” the listings we are planning to submit something. You know, like on eBay: “watch this item” and you get e-mail notifications about the item. I would like to bee available to get notifications about some of the listings, specially the ones that ends on a far future. I would like to see how many submissions has that listing and who submitted to that listing and that would give more reason to talk to each other about what we have submitted. It would be wonderful if we could listen to the songs others had submitted. But of course, every member should have the option to make their submissions on “private” if they don’t want others to know they are on that listing or listen to their songs. On my case, I’m an open person, anybody can listen to my music and I won’t be afraid to let everybody know I submitted to any listing. This idea that it would be wonderful to know who submitted (are you prepared for a list of 800 names) I think would not go over with Taxi members. If I want to come to the forum and publicly say I submitted to so and so, that's my choice. Other than that, my Taxi activities should be private, and rightly so.In addition, the idea that it would be great to listen to Forwarded music has been discussed here. There are many reasons why a Taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music. Copyright concerns, privacy issues, etc. You can voluntarily allow people to hear the music that you had forwarded by posting in the Forward section of this site. That's why it was created. And many of us post what we intend to submit in the "peer to peer" section.Re Lead Sheets - while that might be interesting, the thought of having to create a lead sheet for every song I submit gives me a headache. A lyric and a sound recording is all that should be required.

[elischumann]

Quote:Quote:Hey that would be a cool feature!!And I have another idea:It would be wonderful if we could “watch” the listings we are planning to submit something. You know, like on eBay: “watch this item” and you get e-mail notifications about the item. I would like to bee available to get notifications about some of the listings, specially the ones that ends on a far future. I would like to see how many submissions has that listing and who submitted to that listing and that would give more reason to talk to each other about what we have submitted. It would be wonderful if we could listen to the songs others had submitted. But of course, every member should have the option to make their submissions on “private” if they don’t want others to know they are on that listing or listen to their songs. On my case, I’m an open person, anybody can listen to my music and I won’t be afraid to let everybody know I submitted to any listing. This idea that it would be wonderful to know who submitted (are you prepared for a list of 800 names) I think would not go over with Taxi members. If I want to come to the forum and publicly say I submitted to so and so, that's my choice. Other than that, my Taxi activities should be private, and rightly so.In addition, the idea that it would be great to listen to Forwarded music has been discussed here. There are many reasons why a Taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music. Copyright concerns, privacy issues, etc. You can voluntarily allow people to hear the music that you had forwarded by posting in the Forward section of this site. That's why it was created. And many of us post what we intend to submit in the "peer to peer" section.Re Lead Sheets - while that might be interesting, the thought of having to create a lead sheet for every song I submit gives me a headache. A lyric and a sound recording is all that should be required. I see there are lots of things I need to learn!Can I know some of the reason of why a taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music?And when I said listen to the songs submitted I mean like just pick 1 to 3 of them.

[Casey H]

Re: listening to other submissions: One thing you also have to bear in mind is if submissions and forwards were made public, TAXI would get an onslaught of emails and phone calls from people complaining that their song was better than X's and should have been forwarded, etc. They have to fend off enough calls and emails already from people who are upset that their "hit" was not forwarded. If you read Michael's post yesterday about the positive letter they got and how happy it made everyone, you get a sense for how much of the opposite they deal with every day. Re: lead sheets What's important here is that TAXI represents the industry. Folks in the industry don't want lead sheets-- these have ZERO value in the early review stage and are generally seen as a negative as with "too much information" in other ways. Whether you are submitting with TAXI or directly to publishers, you need to follow industry guidelines for submissions. You will NEVER see a publisher list submitting a lead sheet as one of their submission requirements. Casey

[elischumann]

Quote:Re: listening to other submissions: One thing you also have to bear in mind is if submissions and forwards were made public, TAXI would get an onslaught of emails and phone calls from people complaining that their song was better than X's and should have been forwarded, etc. They have to fend off enough calls and emails already from people who are upset that their "hit" was not forwarded. If you read Michael's post yesterday about the positive letter they got and how happy it made everyone, you get a sense for how much of the opposite they deal with every day. Re: lead sheets What's important here is that TAXI represents the industry. Folks in the industry don't want lead sheets-- these have ZERO value in the early review stage and are generally seen as a negative as with "too much information" in other ways. Whether you are submitting with TAXI or directly to publishers, you need to follow industry guidelines for submissions. You will NEVER see a publisher list submitting a lead sheet as one of their submission requirements. CaseyOoooooh! I see. It's true.

[elischumann]

Quote:Re: listening to other submissions: One thing you also have to bear in mind is if submissions and forwards were made public, TAXI would get an onslaught of emails and phone calls from people complaining that their song was better than X's and should have been forwarded, etc. They have to fend off enough calls and emails already from people who are upset that their "hit" was not forwarded. If you read Michael's post yesterday about the positive letter they got and how happy it made everyone, you get a sense for how much of the opposite they deal with every day. Re: lead sheets What's important here is that TAXI represents the industry. Folks in the industry don't want lead sheets-- these have ZERO value in the early review stage and are generally seen as a negative as with "too much information" in other ways. Whether you are submitting with TAXI or directly to publishers, you need to follow industry guidelines for submissions. You will NEVER see a publisher list submitting a lead sheet as one of their submission requirements. CaseyHey Casey, where do i find the Michael's post you just spoke about?

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Quote:This idea that it would be wonderful to know who submitted (are you prepared for a list of 800 names) I think would not go over with Taxi members. If I want to come to the forum and publicly say I submitted to so and so, that's my choice. Other than that, my Taxi activities should be private, and rightly so.In addition, the idea that it would be great to listen to Forwarded music has been discussed here. There are many reasons why a Taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music. Copyright concerns, privacy issues, etc. You can voluntarily allow people to hear the music that you had forwarded by posting in the Forward section of this site. That's why it was created. And many of us post what we intend to submit in the "peer to peer" section.Re Lead Sheets - while that might be interesting, the thought of having to create a lead sheet for every song I submit gives me a headache. A lyric and a sound recording is all that should be required. I see there are lots of things I need to learn!Can I know some of the reason of why a taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music?And when I said listen to the songs submitted I mean like just pick 1 to 3 of them.Ms Bird has already offered you two perfectly good reasons why people wouldn't want their music listened to.How many more do you want?

[elischumann]

Quote:Quote:I see there are lots of things I need to learn!Can I know some of the reason of why a taxi member may not wish others to listen to their music?And when I said listen to the songs submitted I mean like just pick 1 to 3 of them.Ms Bird has already offered you two perfectly good reasons why people wouldn't want their music listened to.How many more do you want?I thought that Ms Bird was talking about something that has already happened on taxi. I know we need to be careful with our music (concerning to copyright) but I was just asking because I’m a newbie and sometimes I need a few more details to understand some of the things you guys talk about. So it doesn’t matter how silly you think the tip you want to give me is, it would help me. Thanks.

[ibanez468]

Quote:Hey Casey, where do i find the Michael's post you just spoke about?elischumann'Here, go to this thread, and read all about it.http://taxi.proboards27.com/index.cgi?b ... 39639I-468

[Casey H]

Quote:Hey Casey, where do i find the Michael's post you just spoke about?http://taxi.proboards27.com/index.cgi?a ... e=1There's nothing wrong with asking questions. They have thought about posting submissions and/or forwards and for the reasons Vikki (hummingbird) mentioned (copyright, privacy, etc) and the reason I mentioned (the emails and phone calls), there are too many problems associated with it. You will find, however, a lot of songs posted by members on this forum... Some submitted, some not, some forwarded, some not. There is a wealth of information right here. Casey