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Bowman · Post by **Bowman** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:47 pm

About half of what I send to Taxi gets forwarded and I have had three good placements in the past year year alone (television underscore).

It's true that they are looking for a particular kind of music, but that's true of any organisation.

We aren't talking art here. This is strictly commercial. The stuff I really care about doesn't get sent to Taxi.

remmet · Post by **remmet** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:01 pm

I was a member of Taxi for 3 years. None of my songs were forwarded (and rightly so!), but almost all of my instrumental pieces were. Out of all the forwards, only two companies (music libraries for specific usages) contacted me. I signed contracts with them, but so far I haven't made a cent.

What the heck; I may rejoin Taxi at some point. So much of this business is based on luck, I figure the odds are still better than playing the lottery.

Richard

aquaman · Post by **aquaman** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:17 am

It seems like everyone is a bit on the fence aobut taxi. what about other services like sonic bids. does anyone know of any other services that they can recommend?

remmet · Post by **remmet** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:36 am

Since my last posting in January, my old Taxi membership finally paid off! One of the companies I'd signed with sold a piece of my music for use in a trailer for the new Cate Blanchett film, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."

So, to my great amazement, sometimes Taxi actually works. As a result, I've rejoined.

Richard
www.richardemmet.com

soloquest · Post by **soloquest** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:45 am

Check this out. It's for music licensing. It's free to submit a catalog, you retain all rights to your music while possibly making some money on licensing. My catalog did not fit their format, but people can make some money with this.

http://www.pumpaudio.com/

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:57 pm

The zebra-striped Gold Wing is just too cool!

However... I'm going to keep an eye on putting graphics in signatures as I'm concerned this could be a practice that could get out of hand and affect page load times.

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:07 am

m2 wrote:Taxi is a rip! They are a bunch of guys who can't make a career in music so they have preyed on the dreams of others so they can bilk them out of a few bucks. I wouldn't waste your time with TAXI.

Laskow had and has a great career in music. Most of the people who complain about Taxi don't.
People like Bowman recognize Taxi for what it is: A resource for those writing commercial music who are interested in making money.

hausboy · Post by **hausboy** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:36 am

One of you said that music is 24/7 job. To a point that's true BUT some or many of us have day jobs. The balancing act is tricky.

MOTUnation.com

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