You guys might be interested in this company:

https://leveltwo.com.au

My buddies and I did a project for them a few years back working on a song discovery mechanism (which they patented) for use when finding songs to pitch for things like ads and tv shows that might be of interest to your company.

thanks! I think we're technically an Australian company, at least, our founder is Australian and we have a very large investor that is Australian.

Music supervisors are a big part of our business, so I'll pass this link up the line (I'm an engineer)

Hey look at that you can even see the patent online!

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/23/09/13/1877d77...

And they misspelled my name as Lain :(

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Heads up: i suppose that should've read "DMCA'ed"?

facepalm'ed

What do you mean by "All of the artists are already on pretzel"? Do you mean all Bandcamp artists?

I meant that all of the artists that I purchased music from. When I like a band, I make sure to tell my buddy over in the group that signs artists. Pretzel has great terms that are non-exclusive, so it's easy to get a 'yes'.

Every company has rationalizations about how they are helping their customers, and one can hardly blame artists for doing what they need to do in order to survive, but I doubt most of them dream of having their work used by big shitty brands.

I know a few that have recognized how hard it is to make a living as a musician and, as an adaptation of sorts, wholeheartedly jumped into the world of “sync licensing” (or is it synch?), where they are actually focusing on writing music specifically to appeal to the commercial needs of “big shitty brands.” It makes perfect sense to me. It’s a way to use your skills to help someone else do what they want to do. It’s not like I’ve had the luxury of building whatever software I want for most of my career. It usuall comes down to what some product marketing douche is convinced will make money.

I really like your comment. I don't understand why it's OK to shit on artists/musicians for selling their music to "big shitty brands" when I've written a ton of code for "big shitty brands" most of my career.