Hear me out. Please

Very interesting...I wonder if that is their exclusive or non-exclusive catalog. If it is the non-exclusive one, there might be a big potential problem.

Hi guys, I just wanted to post a clarification on the Lynne Publishing / Shockwave-Sound issue.

Lynne Publishing and Shockwave-Sound are not the same thing.

Lynne Publishing is a music publishing company. We hire composers and producers to make music for us, and we sign up exclusive music that we publish properly, and sell/license as much as possible, through any channel we can.

Shockwave-Sound.com is a stock music distribution website which happens to be owned by Lynne Publishing. It's not the same as the music publishing company. If somebody just has their music sold via Shockwave-Sound.com non-exclusively, that music will not be distributed to any third-party sites such as Pond5 etc.

However, if you are an artist who has got tracks exclusively published by Lynne Publishing, those tracks may be sold at Shockwave-Sound.com and/or other stock music distribution sites, such as Pond5 - where ever we can to try to get the tracks sold and placed.

I sold 2 tracks within days of joining Pond5. I had uploaded just a few tracks, maybe 4 or 5, and 2 of them got a sale upon the first view. They were lightly tagged too, maybe 7 tags at the most. Beginner's luck perhaps? It's been slow ever since, 5 sales total. I recently started adding loops taken from some of my Pond5 songs, a few of those sold, and they get decent views. People like loops.

Yeah, it would seem the more tracks you have, the more likely to get a sale. I have 65 tracks, and should have at least 100 by the end of the year. Not sure how much a difference 50 tags makes. First off, at some point you're spamming, when you tag your track to make it all things to all people. That's deceptive, and I think it'll hurt us all in the end. There are only so many words that can describe a track. Just saying, don't rely on tagging so much, instead, rely more on music quality and variety. Use a reasonable number of tags, that's all.

Well anyway, we'll see how this experiment plays out. There are too many of us, and too many tracks in these libraries, the odds are against us. As the libraries grow, there might come a day when it's not worth the bother, even for the former top sellers. This probably isn't the way to go if you want a real music career. It's a good training ground though, so not a waste.

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