
A.O.
New member
I been sellin beats online for a few years. I was into it hard last year, I can remember waking up to like $75 - $150 worth of paypal notifications in my email every day just for leases. Then I started workin more personally with artists, did some some traveling around the country and in canada, even got a few big names on tracks, one with Trick Trick, the other two you will definitely hear about soon. but recently Ive started to get back into this online thing and Im noticing more and more guys are not tryin 2 pay for shyt. Dudes are even bold enough to rearrange the whole beat just to avoid tags. I get hella phone calls and emails and dudes hittin me up on twitter wantin me to listen to the tracks they made with my shyt and they literally will cut half the tags out and think Im not gonna notice it. Thats always been a problem but when your making money you dont notice it, now that im getting back into it its crazy, 4000 plus downloads and a handful of sales does not add up. Im even seein producers try to combat that, blocking their free dls and what not. Well as producers, even though we are in competition with each other it would benefit us all to share ideas about how we can protect our music.
I understand free dls themselves are not going anywhere soon but if we can figure out other ways to stop the nonsense we should share em.
So far All i can think of is to tag the hell outta tracks, only put a minute or so up as preview, or add that lil beep all random in the loop.
Anybody else who has any ideas, throw em in here. We as producers do need to realize we are devaluing our own market. I might only be doing this online thing a couple more years at the longest anyway, but Its been my key to meeting people and getting somewhere, cause i was able to quit my job and still support myself off my beats, chasing my dream. Id hate to see that ability lost to the newer guys tryin 2 be producers but it seems like the market is on a major down and we are the one allowing it. This site gets thousands of guys tryin 2 be producers or learn how to make beats, we dont know the influence we can have on the market here, so any ideas/opinions are welcome long as we can keep it respectful, thanks.
I understand free dls themselves are not going anywhere soon but if we can figure out other ways to stop the nonsense we should share em.
So far All i can think of is to tag the hell outta tracks, only put a minute or so up as preview, or add that lil beep all random in the loop.
Anybody else who has any ideas, throw em in here. We as producers do need to realize we are devaluing our own market. I might only be doing this online thing a couple more years at the longest anyway, but Its been my key to meeting people and getting somewhere, cause i was able to quit my job and still support myself off my beats, chasing my dream. Id hate to see that ability lost to the newer guys tryin 2 be producers but it seems like the market is on a major down and we are the one allowing it. This site gets thousands of guys tryin 2 be producers or learn how to make beats, we dont know the influence we can have on the market here, so any ideas/opinions are welcome long as we can keep it respectful, thanks.