these two replies demonstrate again the root of the problem.
gig workers have no negotiation power in this commodified business, and yet composers continue to give away more and more power in order to scrape for work while taking on more and more responsibility of delivering the work. meanwhile the musicians are giving up 50% of their property in perpetuity across the known and unknown universe to the publisher, who continues to reduce the amount of work they do, and push more of the work on the musicians. and yet members here continually display this attitude to give up position in order to land any placement at any chance, rather than push back at all. Where has ML ever shown a response to a library owner where ML tells them, "How about you get your systems in place before complaining about my members, because your systems are amateur-level junk and my members deserve more" ? how about the library owner do their job? the example given in the episode is the publisher complaining they have to fix metadata of BPM's in tracks to round it off because the delivered BPM is not a whole number, "oh this takes so much time", and members accept this as a legitimate complaint? In truth the publisher is playing amateur-hour and rounding off BPM numbers in metadata, when and where necessary, should take no time at all since it should be an automatic process in their file acceptance, or any number of other file-processing tasks, including renaming, retitling, description padding, etc etc. These are literally tasks that PUBLISHERS are supposed to be tasked with (not the composer).
and Paulie, the attitude of your reply is completely out of line and definitely unprofessional. (especially in conjunction with bragging about being abrasive). it hardly deserves a response at all except that you demonstrate the failing so obviously.
