New site design for MLR – Feedback please!

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[Update: As you can see I have updated MLR to the new theme. I'm pretty happy with it but welcome continuing feedback. Thanks to all that have done so!]

I’ve been fooling around with a new site design for MLR. I’m kind of bored with the old one and it has some problems with functionality. I’m looking for better readability, less reliance on plugins but more importantly, faster loading times. Studies show that users leave a site if it hasn’t loaded in 4 seconds. Load time should be at least 90% as measured by Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow.

So please check out http://mlrtest.com and let me know what you think! You can also leave test comments but they will be erased. Load time is slow there as I haven’t optimized that site.

Please leave any feedback here and thanks!

Art

Seeding the music libraries.

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Over the last few years I, probably like most, have gotten overwhelmed with uploading music to the various libraries as well as tagging and writing descriptions for each piece. Every library’s requirements and procedures are different which only adds to an already time consuming process.

Initially the tendency was to get as much music out in the marketplace, to as many libraries as possible. It did get a bit crazy though and the end result would be that many times it wouldn’t get done. I finally came up with a routine that makes it all much less frantic.

I now only work with 5 or 6 libraries so I assign each one to a day of the week and only upload one song, per week, to each library. That gives me plenty of time to focus on that one piece of music and give it my best effort as it pertains to each library’s requirements. A much more relaxed way to do it, at least for me. I feel I have a few more years left in me so I’m in no rush and it leaves me plenty of time to write and have a life!

How about you? What’s your routine?

Comment Editing Is Back!

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Unintended consequences, argh! In an effort to constantly increase the speed of MLR something is always breaking. In the latest case it was comment editing. I took away some of the speed and comment editing now works. Yes, it’s true. Speed Kills!

Getting What You Want

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I’ve been thinking about this post for a very long time. I particularly wanted to pass this along to those who are younger and might find value in these concepts.

It has to do with the power we all have within us, tapping into that power, and achieving what we want out of life. I have been using these universal truths for decades to help manifest goals that have been important to me. It’s helped with my health (you need good health before anything!), career, financial security and finding my soul mate. Continue reading

BMI payday today

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Who said Friday the 13th was unlucky! BMI royalties out today and had a decent payout. Still not a living wage but better than last quarter. Jingle Punks still rockin’ with some good major network placements as well as Scorekeepers. Also picked up a few Kardahsian placements from one of my other deals.

How about you? Here’s hoping for some fat payouts for all!

Key man clause

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Brian Curtin, composer and MLR member, came by the other day to have lunch and we were discussing the music library business (what else!). We were discussing the fact that many of the recent music libraries that have sprung up are a one person operation or is dependent on one person to drive the company. So the question becomes what happens to the music if that person leaves the company, dies (God forbid), disappears, or just flakes? My thought was that back in the day I had a few contracts that had a “key man” clause. It basically states that if a particular person leaves the company, for whatever reason, the contract is null and void.

Anyone have such a clause in a contract? Curious.

Latin Percussion & Piano Montunos

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MLR member and composer Eric Bolvin has released a Latin Loop package containing percussion and piano montunos. Styles included are: mambo, meringue, salsa 2/3 clave, salsa 3/2 clave, Cuban son, calypso, samba, Latin rock, rhumba, Afro-Cuban 6/8 and bossa nova. Montunos are the rhythmic patterns that the piano plays over many Latin styles. I love piano montunos and I’ll probably pick this package up for myself. You can check them out here: http://www.looplibrary.com/library/product.php?product=958.

Funk Bass Loops

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Composer and MLR member Keith Holden has released a funk bass loop package. “Funk Bass” weighs in at 382MB and includes 355 24 Bit samples, with 340 loops at 110-120 BPM, plus 15 One Shot Bass Samples. All loops and sounds are 100% royalty free. At £ 11.96 it’s certainly a bargain. If you need some funky bass check out Keith’s “Funk Bass” loops. I checked it out and I will be picking it up myself!

Keith also took an ad out here on MLR so support our advertisers if you can.

You can purchase here: http://www.loopmasters.com/product/details/1098/Loopmasters_Present_Funk_Bass.

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