MiMaMux

Hey guys, really interesting discussion. I am not a filmmaker, but I'm composer, founder of https://audiocabin.com and make a living with music for almost 10 years now. I sold my music on various websites until I was frustrated and had the idea of starting my own licensing company. But because I represent the point of view of the musicians, I wanted a company with fairer conditions for artists. I started building AudioCabin back in early 2015 and in March 2018 (yep, it's been 3 years) I finally launched the (by the way 100% privately financed) website and even sold a few licenses already. Of course, there are still years of work ahead of me (us), especially because it takes time until the website is ranked on google. But here are some basic information about Audio Cabin: Artists get 50% Artists are free (non-exclusive content) Every track is reviewed first (good for you) 2 simple Licenses (Private/Commercial), noone is asking for your audience size or anything else. The pricing is comparable with those of other libraries but higher for commercial licenses. A subscription model is worst for a musician IMO. Imagine you should shoot an unlimited number of commercials for 5k/year. When the guys from artlist asked me to participate (they did a few years ago), I calculated my earnings based on their subscription model and the result was that I basically could give them my music for free :( From the entrepreneur's point of view, it would certainly make sense to offer a subscription, but still... I know everyone wants to pay as little as possible for music. We are all the same. To justify the prices I try to keep the quality of the catalog very high and hope more and more people are willing to pay a little more for good content. Of course, the competition is pretty strong, but one year from now, I know more. Regarding TMB: What you say about it still seems to be the main tenor. Friends of mine (filmmakers) complain about the same things, the lack of transparency and the greed for information they should not care about. Somehow, I hope I can avoid the mistakes of other libraries. I certainly have ideas enough. I'd be more than happy if you'd support my endeavour and checkout https://audiocabin.com , still a small but nice & clear library of royalty-free music, I think. Give it a try, save some tracks to a playlist, maybe you even find a cool track you want to use. If not, come back from time to time as the website constanly improves and grows. Thanks!