Is BroadJam after TAXI's Market Share?

[sgs4u]

Quote:OK, if you take a minute to step back from all of this... What's really relevant to YOU as a TAXI member?understandingQuote:1. You will be getting a new electronic submission/hosting service for free and saving $50 a year. That might make the difference as to whether or not you can afford to join and possibly use Dispatch.I don't think it's likely that taxi's hosting will be free forever. Of course I'm ecstatic that it's free now. I already pay for dispatch and I've been lucky enough to get a few forwards, that I wouldn't have received otherwise. But your point is moot because you WILL still have to be paying a fee to Broadjam to host your songs, just to make them available for deliveries. So in effect, paying the $5(which turns into $10 very soon) to deliver to BJ, and a hosting fee.Lete everyone decide for themselves, but we ought to be able to talk or vent about it. Why would this be less OK to talk about than a weird review?Quote:2. If you paid Bjam for the taxi electronic submission service and they don't either give you what you paid for or refund you for what you didn't get, that's an issue and you should scream bloody murder. That would be a big problem for you as a paying taxi member. I haven't heard that anyone is getting ripped off this way yet.its seems to me this is happening already. Read the post immediately above this one. Is BJ informing newbies who join BJ about the impending split, are they just accepting all the money they can get? On the other hand, is Taxi? Of course they are, if you join Taxi now, they likely aren't mentioning anything about BJ. Why would they? And I agree with that. Quote:3. How Bjam performs their new service is really something to talk about with them. Asking them here what they do with your submissions has nothing to do with your TAXI membership and it's been said before that TAXI prefers not to use these boards to give airplay to competition. I disagree wholeheartedly with this. this IS of concern to Taxi members, and this forum is exactly where we all see together what's actually happening. Were all in this together, your quote. This forum is for taxi forum members to learn the craft and business of creating music for sale, is it not? 4.Quote:Your TAXI submissions couldn't possibly be watered down by another music website taking on-line submissions. Probably not, but BJ's become almost moot if they're the same clients Quote:There are already scores of those and they don't have the business model that TAXI does which involved strong screening. Not saying those other things are good or bad (I like some of them)... just different.no pre-screening before the music gets to a publisher is going to mean a publisher might be deluged with inappropriate material. then even more appropriate material CAN fall through the cracks. Quote:I'm guilty too of a lot of gossip-y conjecture and I'm starting to feel like it's "Who is Anna Nicole's daughter's father?". (My DNA sample is still in the lab ) I believed you, but the truth is out now. If Jimi deletes this post, then it is abundantly clear that the information here does not belong on the forum. As far as I'm concerned, that's where that line is drawn. steve

[jeffe]

I wonder if BJ were interested in the following page on the Taxi site:http://www.taxi.com/only.htmlWould their criteria be this tight?Personally, I doubt it.Are your works of art going to get forwarded to anyone claiming to be in the music industry?It's a possibility.There are so many questions that only time will answer.I can't really see how BJ could muscle in on the business of Taxi. In this business. It's not so much a case of what you know. More a case of who you know, and as far as I can see. Taxi is the one with all the connections.There are a few statistics I would be interested in from BJ.I'm not after names.How many of their reviewers are members/ex-members of Broadjam?How many of those reviewers have held positions in A&R?That last question is quite important. Composers/ musicians spend a lot of time inventing. A&R pros spend a lot of time listening. Two very different things. I would respect the opinions of an A&R pro over a composer/musician. Musicians are the fish, and the A&R people are the ones with the rods, and they are pretty good at catching the big ones.Us inventors are too busy swimming around.

[Casey H]

Quote: I don't think it's likely that taxi's hosting will be free forever... What makes you think that? They haven't raised any of their prices since the beginning AND this feature makes them even more attractive. It seems quite a stretch to project that.Quote: How Bjam performs their new service is really something to talk about with them. Asking them here what they do with your submissions has nothing to do with your TAXI membership and it's been said before that TAXI prefers not to use these boards to give airplay to competition. Quote: I disagree wholeheartedly with this. this IS of concern to Taxi members, and this forum is exactly where we all see together what's actually happening. Were all in this together, your quote. This forum is for taxi forum members to learn the craft and business of creating music for sale, is it not? Just to make sure my post wasn't misinterpreted what I said was asking how broadjam will perform services (e.g. pitching), unrelated to their work with TAXI, doesn't really belong here. Why ask them on this forum how they will handle pitches, etc.? It seems to me and many others that you should direct those questions to their customer service.Quote: no pre-screening before the music gets to a publisher is going to mean a publisher might be deluged with inappropriate material. then even more appropriate material CAN fall through the cracks. I agree with you. But there is another way to look at it. If a publisher or music supervisor lists with an unscreened vehicle and gets too many garbage submissions, they may turn to TAXI so that they only get screened material. So one way of looking at it is it could make TAXI look even more attractive to industry people. And, as I mentioned, they would be one more also-ran in a slew of places that do unscreened pitches and probably have infinitesimal impact on the industry.Now if someone paid for something, whether it be with TAXI, BJ, Macy's, or any place else, and feel they didn't get what they paid for they should complain to that party and demand a refund. Those things are not best accomplished by message board dialog, they are best handled by directly contacting that party. Casey