I recently joined Taxi. Didn't know exactly what to expect, but I was curious to find out if my 'urge' to be creative with music could benefit from this concept.
All my submissions have been returned up till now and when I hear some of the music that did get forwarded, I totally understand why .
The critiques I got have been very educational (and sometimes frustrating also) and have incouraged me to invest time in learning mixing and mastering techniques, using effects in a better way, being bit more demanding for myself, and so on.
I notice the need for an application so I can easily do following things:
- Enter my songs/music in a database with characteristics (style/tempo/instrumental-vocal/lyrics/…) with a search-engine to quickly find music that meets certain criteria (fragment out of the lyrics, certain style, certain tempo(s),…).
- Help me to find (unsigned) music fast in this ‘library’ that meets the requests of a listing based on tempo / instrumental versus vocal / style/…. Being able to listen to the potential songs from within this user interface and add them to the listing.
- Quickly find the open listings (based on the deadline) that I added as interesting and I did not yet submit to.
- Being able to mark a song as signed (exclusive or non-exclusive) and to which company so that it is not submitted twice.
- Adding the revenues from a signed song.
- …
My questions:
- Are there others among you who could benefit from such an application?
- What other functions must be included to make it useful for you?
- Does such software already exist?
Hans