JeffCore
Registered: April 14, 2008
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| | Sept 22, 2008 at 10:11 PM | | #1 |
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hi
jeff here, it's been far too long since i have posted. My apologies!
so here's the latest - we are working on completely overhauling TuneCore - still doing what we do, but adding more and changing the way the site flows
right now the site is "album centric" - that is when you log in, you land at a page called MyDiscography which lists your album(s)
We want to make the site "person centric" - that is when you log in, it should be a site about you, and albums are just one thing about you.
What else is important to you
When you log in, what would you like to see - what kind of dashboard or choices
What should it display for you or let you choose
CD Manufacturing, Digital Distribution, Accounting and Sales information, Make Posters, Buttons, T-shirts, Sticker, Create your own art on-line, book a gig, rent a van, copyright your songs, trademark your band name, collect email addresses from your fans, store your band photos, have a public TuneCore page, get an endorsement deal, sign yourself to a physical distribution deal, add more digital stores and on and on
I REALLY want to know - this site is NOT for me, its for you. I want us to build not what I want, but what you need - so please, load us up with your comments!
and thank you
jeff
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egressuk
Registered: Sept 17, 2008
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| | Sept 23, 2008 at 07:39 AM | | #2 |
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Hi Jeff,
As a new user I think the suggestions you have mentioned sound fantastic. I think bringing in physical distributors and endorsements is a great idea...maybe add promoters and links to the music press (online and physical). Also anything to help live performance booking and promotion would be great.
Regarding CD and other merchandise, that all sounds brilliant but I am in the UK and so far everything is very US centric (understandable I know as you are a US company based in the US) but it would be great to see more options/companies available to us over here in England (and I'm assuming people from other countries as well)
Keep up the great work,
Mark Morb
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EMMSLY
Registered: April 22, 2008
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| | Sept 23, 2008 at 07:53 AM | | #3 |
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Jeff,
I think the main problem with what you have here is artist exposure. You have some really great music here but most folks can not afford to advertise. A large part of your customer base might have spent all they have to develop their product. A way of promoting your artists for a modest fee might be something to explore. Promotion that is geared toward driving traffic to the artists. I know you can't make people buy the product but without people hearing the music sales will always be sparadic.
What you are doing here is still great! 
Mark
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JeffCore
Registered: April 14, 2008
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| | Sept 23, 2008 at 08:10 AM | | #4 |
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pls keep those comments coming!
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wmrecordings
Registered: April 22, 2008
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| | Sept 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM | | #5 |
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One thing I really would like to see, being the owner of a label, is an option to create 'subaccounts' where artists can log in and see sales details (number of sold tracks etc.) of their - and only their - releases.
If it would include some extra settings - like filling in the percentage they get from me so that they know exactly what they are owed - it would be even greater.
Does that make sense or should I post an example of what I mean?
Now that I'm thinking of it: I'm sure there are more 'label options' that we can up with (a place to store all the contact info for "my" artists for example), so maybe you should start differentiating between artists accounts and label accounts?
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doublej
Registered: Sept 24, 2008
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| | Sept 24, 2008 at 04:05 PM | | #6 |
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A tunecore bestsellers chart would be GREAT....
I know there is a monthly top 10 bestsellers.... but it would be great to see something like the top 40 or top 100 bestsellers (daily or weekly?), kind of like the way itunes do their charts...
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ukcomposer
Registered: June 17, 2008
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| | Sept 24, 2008 at 04:50 PM | | #7 |
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Hi Jeff, I'd like to see a traffic light system in my account that indicates when royalties have been paid / are late, for each store - whether I received any or not. Also, it would be great to see a Tunecore equivalent of Createspace. For us overseas members, it's impossible to hold inventory in the USA, so this kind of press-when-needed system is really useful. Maybe a Tunecore version would get around the Amazon 45% cut which makes Createspace less appealing. Also, we could send our physical copies to other stores too.
The cell phone market is huge, ringback tones are booming. I know that hooking up with phone companies has been mentioned before but it would be great. Verizon are currently taking tracks from a well known sound effects website and they're in need of more music content apparently.
Kind regards Leigh
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JeffCore
Registered: April 14, 2008
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| | Sept 24, 2008 at 06:47 PM | | #8 |
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all of these are really good comments. some we have already put down to do, others we have not. please do keep the ideas coming. we need your input. I do not want to build what i think you want, i want to build what you know you need.
jeff
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GeorgeWNM
Registered: May 26, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM | | #9 |
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Didn't see it was pinned over here so I'll post again...
I don't want it person centric, I want it MORE album and data centric, I want to be able to sort my albums, just look at what is live, look at what is sent, not so much of what I've taken down, etc. I don't care so much about the extra stuff, I want my albums, videos and their sales the first thing I see. Second thing would probably be my account and funds available, that sort of thing. I want you to put the album names or some damn identifier of the album in the trending reports. I have no idea why you are witholding info that's already there. I can't be the only one who would like to have UPC and ISRC numbers in the trending reports. It's costing me over $150 a year. Geesh. Ok, the other stuff is important too, but maybe on another tab or something. I came to tunecore to sell albums. That's my main goal. Some charts would be nice. Maybe tie into the top 100 or whatever charts on itunes and amazon, whoever else has them, so I don't have to check each one individually to see how I'm doing that day. Physical distribution is important, I wish you guys did something like CD Baby does. i don't really want an account over there but it looks like I'm going to have to for physical CD's. It would be great if you had some connections to get us into catalogs for physical distribution too.
That's all I can think of for now but I'm sure there is more. Did I mention UPC/ISRC numbers in the trending reports? Oh yeah, I did. Anything else I can do to complain about that? Also, I agree with the other posters that TuneCore is doing a great job, I don't know what I would have done without them.
George
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chuckweeks
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digitalmusicman
Registered: June 24, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 01:51 PM | | #11 |
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I know its really not under your control but I wish the sales reporting by some stores would be on time. Besides that tunecore has been great. |
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pongamoosic
Registered: April 22, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 02:02 PM | | #12 |
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As already mentioned to Peter, better ways to show that a sales report has been updated by TuneCore AFTER it has been initially posted in my account.
I know that stores report late, and when you get their data you populate our reports. What I have suggested is that TuneCore somehow (maybe as simply as changing the filename for our .csv files, showing revision A...,B...C, etc.) let us know that the data has been changed.
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chadpry
Registered: Sept 25, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 06:44 PM | | #13 |
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| it'd be great to have more control over the band info, label info, and album info that gets used by emusic and itunes and the like. it sorta sucks to have your band on emusic and not be able to have the bio up there as well. |
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dfmedia
Registered: April 25, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 08:41 PM | | #14 |
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automatic mechanical licensing from Harry Fox for cover songs, with automatic distribution.
also a way to set up rules to divide up royalties among artists and producers on a track by track basis, and have the accountung system pay each person directly |
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Liquidjazz
Registered: Sept 25, 2008
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| | Sept 25, 2008 at 09:00 PM | | #15 |
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automatic mechanical licensing from Harry Fox for cover songs, with automatic distribution.
also a way to set up rules to divide up royalties among artists and producers on a track by track basis, and have the accounting system pay each person directly (ideas borrowed from Dfmedia, thanks!)
Tunecore to negotiate with distributors to allow us to include liner notes and credits and photos, like a CD or LP. Just a postage stamp size graphic is not enough to promote a sale and satisfy fans (jazz fans in my case)
Negotiate with sellers to make widgets of a decent size (like amazon) so we can show the product on our websites and promote sales in the different distributors.
I'll think of something else later!
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