The General Dilemma?

[markanthony]

Is that list of industry professionals actually up-to-date? Or is that a list of people of note that have come and gone?

[cosmicdolphin]

You're the creator of your songs, reflect on your ability and determine how you feel about your own work. If YOU think it needs to be improved, improve it. If you love it, keep loving it.

The problem is most people can't hear their own tracks objectively or judge their own ability - so regardless of whether the creator feels it needs improving or not , they're usually the worst judge. Which I guess is why we have screeners.

[darkbluerooms]

I agree cosmic, outside ears will always be of use. I'm thinking more big picture. We all need to get better at analyzing and critiqing our own stuff. It's just that in the context of Taxi, some people conflate a return with "your song is bad." I personally can say I've never had a return in a genre I actually do, that had a single negative comment about the songwriting. This is important for me specifically, because I do think my songwriting is one of my strengths. I've also never submitted a song that I didn't have personal critiques going in. I compare my issues with the song, with the screener's take. 95 % of the time, I agree with the screener. There's a method to the madness. I think there are plenty of qualified screeners who work for Taxi. I also think their are some genres that their screeners are not as strong in. Since I dabble in Urba...Black music, I've payed attention to forward blogs and frankly the active users in this forum, and I think it's a weakness of the platform. Call a spade a spade. It's also possible that traditional German language music may be a weakness of theirs as well, but I don't speak German so I'm not sure.

And for Telefunkin, appropriate sentence structure for responding to my post while indicating that you actually did correctly read it would be: "Correct, it's not..." or "Right, it's not..." or "I agree, it's not.." or "True, it's not..." to name a few. But I'm thinking mostly you just want to troll me. LOLOLOLOL

[Zaychi]

And for Telefunkin, appropriate sentence structure for responding to my post while indicating that you actually did correctly read it would be: "Correct, it's not..." or "Right, it's not..." or "I agree, it's not.." or "True, it's not..." to name a few. But I'm thinking mostly you just want to troll me. LOLOLOLOL

Seems to me like YOU are the troll. You're obviously misreading his post intentionally. He made a point that you don't agree with; now you're using semantics to support your argument, and accuse HIM of trolling?!? You gotta be kidding.

[darkbluerooms]

I thought you said you weren't going to engage with me in the forums anymore. You're the single biggest troll here. And I'm not interested in publicly arguing or fighting with you. If you want to argue in a private conversation send me your contact info.

[Zaychi]

I said I won't comment on your peer-to-peer requests anymore. I'll surely defend a friendly and appreciated member of this board against silly accusations and unwarranted attacks in public.

You can click my name and then click "Send PM" if you want to talk in private, though I don't really see the point.

[Zaychi]

Oh and sorry for hijacking your thread, Stefan. Are you going to give us the score?

[Picardster]

Oh and sorry for hijacking your thread, Stefan. Are you going to give us the score?

Don't worry. This is a free forum

Okay, the forward was for Hey Du
And the tune with the dated pads was Jahreszeitenlied

The reason for the other returns was missing regional link. And that, in fact, is what I don't understand. The rest is clear to me.....although I'd have given me at least 4 forwards

Cheerio/Stefan

[Casey H]

Do you still have the full listing wording? Can't get it with your link because the listing expired.

Taxi's forward/return decisions have nothing to do with size of membership, number of submissions, etc. All tracks that meet the "bar" are forwarded. Granted, the bar is very high sometimes which results in a much smaller number of forwards. But it is not some sort of numbers/percentages/quota thing,

I need to read the listing. I sampled your tracks, nice work. What *might* be the issue is the difference between a track sounding like it's native to a region (the usual requirement for "World" music) vs. just being in a foreign language. However, I don't know enough about what German music should sound like. Once track sounded a bit to me like Latin music with German words.

The good news is one forward DOES mean a lot. If that client contacts you, you have the opportunity to ask them if you can submit more tracks to them. And you build that relationship.

Good luck!
Casey

[Picardster]

Do you still have the full listing wording? Can't get it with your link because the listing expired.

Sorry Casey, I don't have the full wording.

..... I sampled your tracks, nice work. What *might* be the issue is the difference between a track sounding like it's native to a region (the usual requirement for "World" music) vs. just being in a foreign language. However, I don't know enough about what German music should sound like.

Frankly, what would be traditional and native German music is something like that
Apart from that we have various styles here, which have one thing in common - German language.

Once track sounded a bit to me like Latin music with German words.

Which one is that?

The good news is one forward DOES mean a lot. If that client contacts you, you have the opportunity to ask them if you can submit more tracks to them. And you build that relationship.

Good luck!
Casey

After +20 forwards I don't have a deal through Taxi yet, Luckily there are other avenues that create me music-earnings I can live on

Cheerio/Stefan