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Listing S080411CI:NEW LISTING -- CONTEMPORARY LIGHT/COMEDIC INSTRUMENTALS are needed by an East Coast Music Library who provides music for popular ad campaigns and various Film/TV projects. They need high quality, well produced :30 and :60 segments for their premium library. Instrumentation and style is open but the sound should be high energy and exciting. Broadcast quality is definitely needed here. Please submit 2-3 segments online or per CD. All submissions will be screened and critiqued by TAXI and must be received by Apr. 11, 2008.I have a few questions if folks don't mind fielding them that'd be great:1) Does 30 sec mean 30sec, or is 31.2 sec OK. I have a single verse of a tune that's 31.2 sec -- should I time stretch it into 30secs?2) Are these types of listings wanting 30sec 'chunks' common? I assume that these lenghts satisfy a specific programming need.3) Is it best to submit varying length pieces, (i.e. some 30 some 1min).4) Do folks ever submit a 30 sec and a 1min version of the same track, or is that a waste of time/effort.Thanks in advance!BTW: this is the one piece so far that I have for this listing. By adding a short 1 bar drum intro and shortening the ending I can get a 31.2 sec section, basically 1 verse, that should time stretch easily w/o any artifacts.Trash Talkin'http://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_ ... am=trueFor those of you running WMP that hit the 'file could not be played' issue, here's a SoundClick link: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_so ... ID=6160130

I might call TAXI to clarify for a listing like this... But in my experience doing commercials, 30 means 30 or even 29.5. And seeing that they're asking for those lengths specifically, makes me thing they're trying to sell them as commercial beds.

Thanks Stick,I'll make 'em dead on in 30sec intervals. I found some interesting reading on a different forum about time stretching. It says you get better results stretching each track individually before mix down rather than stretching the mastered stereo .wav file. I'll probably try it on the mastered file first, and if that isn't glitch free I'll look at doing it at the track level.

Yeah, for a second and a half over 30, you might get away with it. Depends on what you're using to do it. Another option is to just speed it up, without any compression. Like the old vari-speeding a tape machine. The pitch goes up, but you don't lose any fidelity.

Or better yet, cut off a second of the intro drum fill.