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Let’s Talk Metadata
52 Cues Podcast, TAXI, Metadata, Keywords, Career Habits, Family Group, Friend Group, Catalog Management, Landing A Catalog Dave Kropf 52 Cues Podcast, TAXI, Metadata, Keywords, Career Habits, Family Group, Friend Group, Catalog Management, Landing A Catalog Dave Kropf

Let’s Talk Metadata

Wrangling keywords and mood terms across spreadsheets, PDFs, and submission forms, can feel pretty soul sucking at times, but metadata just may be the most important part of the life of a cue!

On today’s show, I go over the most common type metadata found in libraries and give you some of my strategies that could mean the difference between getting placed or getting passed over.

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Make Your Publisher’s Job Easy (Chat with Michael Laskow)
52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Featured Composer, Composing, Genres, Landing A Catalog Dave Kropf 52 Cues Podcast, Career Advice, Featured Composer, Composing, Genres, Landing A Catalog Dave Kropf

Make Your Publisher’s Job Easy (Chat with Michael Laskow)

When we pitch our cues to libraries, we want to make the process as smooth and painless as possible, so on today’s episode, I sit down and chat with Michael Laskow,@TAXI Independent A&R, who works with publishers every day, and we discuss what we composers can do to reduce friction when it comes to getting our music into libraries.

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