Comments on: AudioMicro Partners With SlideRocket, Revamps Music Licensing Platform

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:47:44 +0000

Audiomicro is a godsend… great for anybody producing mid budget internet projects… and excellent for general producing… a must for any serious producer… and no, I don’t work there.
TW

By: Evan Meyer

Evan Meyer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:44:28 +0000

The site looks great! Awesome upgrade!

Congrats on the solid biz dev maneuvers, as well.

By: Herine

Herine — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:15:15 +0000

Some points to note about the licensing agreement which is a red flag for me. In summary
- cannot use music in more than 2 locations.
- distribute up to ten thousand (5,000) units of an item {so is it 10k or 5k – some serious typos or management indecisions!)
- some additional licensing fees for certain usages which is not very clear.
- must file cue sheets.

Well after some of that, I kinda stop reading as it isn’t for me besides such legal docs give me a headache.

I’ve been using stock music or some call it royalty free music for years and have seen some very generous licensing terms and this is not one of them.

Many sites don’t require cue sheets although you can submit if you need to. Filing cue sheets is another thing I’ve happily avoided with music from other places.

Also hate the 2 locations limitation and 10K or is it 5K duplication limitation. What happens if my production hits 10,001 or even if there is a possibility if it may but not knowing the fees upfront isn’t great.

The price isn’t that micro either. There are so many other sites selling music at around the same price and much cheaper with larger buys.

I really don’t see what the hype is all about aside from the name have micro in it making it sound like it cost less.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:51:51 +0000

I am not wanting to be a party pooper but the concept of micro payment audio has been on our minds for sometime since photo and images came about so this is great to some extend for the buyers but not for musicians as music isn’t that easy to create as like in taking a picture or even video.

Audiomicro is just a platform that I feel is somewhat a capitalist in taking advantage and setting the price for music, generalizing and comoditizing the quality and cost of the art. Do the founders produce music themselves and make a living doing so? Well just my 2 cents.

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By: sean percival

sean percival — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:47:30 +0000

Great service, it’s always hard to find great stock audio, not any more!

By: Evan Rifkin

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:45:30 +0000

Great improvements from previous site. Congrats to Ryan and team.

By: Robert Flynn

Robert Flynn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:13:43 +0000

It’s a multimedia world and audio’s always the last media type that people think about. Nice to see that AudioMicro is doing it right. New site looks great.

By: Taylor Norrish

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:42 +0000

Awesome library! Microsoft PowerPoint should be using the AudioMicro library instead of their lame sound effects.

By: SteveR

SteveR — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:30:18 +0000

very slick – nice upgrade!

By: Fish

Fish — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:51:13 +0000

Very nice – adding the sound effects in actually gives users a compelling reason to use SlideRocket instead of their competitors. And by users, I mean me.

By: J Louis

J Louis — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:37:50 +0000

Just tried the service, fantastic. Significantly more seamless that other stock music sites I have used before.

Well done. AudioMicro has a new customer. Useful article.

By: kerry

kerry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:15:46 +0000

nice! could be a good fit for commercial/film production communities as well… maybe a similar distribution deal with commercial producers guild(s) in the future?

By: Rebecca Choi

Rebecca Choi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:15:06 +0000

I love AudioMicro! I find all the sound effects and music I need for my school work AND YouTube videos. One stop shopping makes my life easy.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Congrats to Ryan and the rest of the AudioMicro team on a job well done.

By: Sharad

Sharad — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:35:32 +0000

The new and revamped audio micro looks slick
and makes it a breeze to find sound effects and tracks.
I’ve perused the library and they have a great collection
of tracks.

By: Ben Padnos

Ben Padnos — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:20:14 +0000

Based on the success of iStockPhoto, as chronicled in TC yesterday, and the substantial funding for its competitor, Fotolia, AudioMicro seems like a natural acquisition target for one of these companies looking to expand into the “audio” vertical.

By: Ari Mir

Ari Mir — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:07:39 +0000

i love the API…more services need to realize distributed sales is in their interest…good work!

By: Jason Nazar

Jason Nazar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:03:14 +0000

great platform, have used it for audiotracks before for videos, loved the service but the UI was a bit messy, was playing arond with it today and just got worlds better

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:02:29 +0000

We have used AudioMicro for music/sounds for a lot of our original content. Great service!

By: Ian Swanson

Ian Swanson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:02:06 +0000

Great service!

By: Clark Benson

Clark Benson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:51 +0000

There is totally a need for this type of service, and the traditional music publishers are not set up to cover this kind of smallscale use.

By: Alon Shwartz

Alon Shwartz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:39 +0000

This new version is a great enhancement to AudioMicro. The site looks mature, professional and down to it, very useful. I think the API will open many doors and allow AudioMicro to grow exponentially, this was a very smart move, good call Ryan.

By: Tracy Frey

Tracy Frey — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:47:14 +0000

We’ve loved working with AudioMicro on this – their API is great! Having the ability to easily add audio to presentations is awesome. We use it all the time internally (there is research that suggests that presentations with audio are watched 2-3 times longer than those without), and it is great that our users can access this through the marketplace now as well.

Kudos to the AudioMicro team on this release, and we’re thrilled to partner with them on it.

By: David Aronchick

David Aronchick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:40:49 +0000

Audio Micro has an amazing amount of content – really impressive stuff!