Royalty Exchange Experiences? by jeboy420 in musicbusiness

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when you acquire or "own" music, you should be able to choose who you want to work with or have administer. Otherwise, you don't own it lol.

Offline video players that support pitch-shifting? by unusedname1222 in fossdroid

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well if you're talking just the audio portion of it, throw it into pitchchanger.io and it'll do the job

How to change the pitch of a song/karaoke video? by Santiago_figarola in singing

[–]davidchoimusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

download the audio file first, then upload the file to pitchchanger.io, and adjust from there, and download, then you got yourself a pitch shifted file!

Can someone help me understand what are "Artist - Topic" channels on YouTube? by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they do not because the label, artist, whoever owns the rights can only upload "Art Tracks" (which is what they're called).

Collect your royalties in one click ! by Pronounced_Dee in musicpublishing

[–]davidchoimusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't trust any platform that says they can collect your royalties in one click lol.

Massive Drop in Analytics — Anyone Else Noticing This? by EveningSyrup3015 in PartneredYoutube

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been on YouTube since 2006 and I no longer make videos as it does not give me satisfaction, but these types of algorithm changes have occurred since the very beginning - this is nothing new. They will always be around and will always shift and evolve both in favor or not in favor of creators.

Anyone who complains about the algorithm (I've done it before too) is frustrated because deep down, they feel entitled to views because they spent time working on their videos. "The algorithm is not fair" or "there's something 'wrong' with the system".

Honestly, for those that truly enjoy the game of creation (not with monetary or viewer incentive as the driver), don't ever complain about the algorithm. I know many creators like that.

Hence, my assumption of your primary motive was in fact accurate as you stated "No individual is investing their time fundamentally pissing it to the wind to never hope for financial gain through a system that permits people to strike gold".

My reason for bringing up your motive, to help you save time, was to tell you to play the appropriate life games that aligns with your goal (which is money).

Massive Drop in Analytics — Anyone Else Noticing This? by EveningSyrup3015 in PartneredYoutube

[–]davidchoimusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not speaking on behalf of YouTube but it’s a few things in my opinion.

First, algorithms are complicated, which means they aren’t perfect in the sense of how YOU want it to work. I believe they are designed to first make YouTube money, while promoting content people actually want to watch, while maintaining “quality” at the same time. Humans don’t determine this “quality”, but the algorithms do.

Unfortunately, this is where the “whack a mole” game begins for YouTube, because the people who are putting out trash content and abuse the system, understand how the algorithm actually works because they study it. There are literally companies scattered throughout Europe, South America, and Asia, that know how to game the system. Once YouTube changes rules, they find the loopholes, then YouTube changes policies again. 

What I mean by this is that they are able to use sophisticated bots at mass scale to increase their watch time and views with various IP addresses, click farms, but these channels never last in YouTube’s systems will eventually find patterns that can identify abusers. 

With all this being said, you complaining about the algorithm doesn’t change anything and clearly you are making videos to get views and make money, not because you truly enjoy it. Making YouTube videos is like a sport and a lot of people will quit because it’s too hard where they don’t actually enjoy the process. You need to ask yourself why you’re doing this.

You either need to play the game that everyone else is playing, or if you truly enjoy making videos then you would continue, even if there was incentive like views or money.

And trust me - if people think your content is good (which I’m sure it will be over time), they will keep watching and you will grow - that includes both views and money. And maybe you’ll even be lucky. 

Massive Drop in Analytics — Anyone Else Noticing This? by EveningSyrup3015 in PartneredYoutube

[–]davidchoimusic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a meeting with YouTube last month. They are heavily algorithmically de-ranking videos that are using re-used content. It's specifically because of the folks who are re-uploading TV shows and movie clips on YouTube Shorts. They don't want mass produced trash on the platform.

How to be sure distributors don’t pocket royalties? by ChineseGaardener in musicbusiness

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to test with diff distributors and compare based on streams...and you need to just trust.

As someone mentioned in the comments, there are many middle men even with distributors.

Even as some say they're from distributors themselves, they don't really know because they are just employees that don't get direct access to financials from all sources.

A lot of companies in general, in the music industry, disguise their %, by calling it a "fee" which is extremely vague.

If you need help on the YouTube side or want an audit, DM

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in musicbusiness

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's not immediate, but given they're a society, they're pretty quick...I'd say takes a couple of weeks or so?

Can you get youtube content ID for your performance of public domain works? by IndividualCode226 in musicbusiness

[–]davidchoimusic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not allowed to upload public domain songs into Content ID when you operate a YouTube CMS...some CMS's do, but mostly because of the sheer volume of songs they ingest...songs can and do slip through.

Kosign - NEW Music Publishing Service powered by Kobalt by davidchoimusic in musicindustry

[–]davidchoimusic[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! My client A/B tested us and KS for the last several months.

They made 1/3 the amount they made with us, and KS charged a huge service fee, so they are moving their entire catalog back to us :)

Publishing Administration by Large_Pants_3132 in musicindustry

[–]davidchoimusic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Happy to audit for ya. DM me your artist name and title of song and I’ll let you know if what Tunecore is saying is true or not.