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Music seems to be…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"Indie and hobbyist game developers","commenter",[60,64,68],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"4158259","gavanwoolery","I am a hobbyist game developer, and this seems like a good resource (I have bookmarked it). Do you compose all the music or take in tracks from others as well?",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"4158275","kingatomic","This is a great idea! One of the bigger stumbling blocks for me, as a hopeful one-man-studio, is that I am crap at making music. This could be the answer to that. Best of luck to…",{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"4158428","cobrausn","I'm currently working on an indie game that we hope to release within 6 months or so. Sound effects we were pretty sure we could handle, but music is another thing altogether.…",{"value":73,"source":58,"evidence":74},"Tracks priced around $5 per track, with commenters suggesting higher prices",[75,76,80],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"4158452","raphaelcaixeta","$5 is a steal. I'm sure you could charge a lot more and still keep customers happy!",{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"4158285","josho","Please charge more. My current (indy) project just selected the stock music for our project. I'm happy to pay $30 \u002F piece. The site that we licensed our music from had pricing…",{"value":85,"source":86,"evidence":87},"Maker composes music and sees a gap for affordable game music","inferred",[88,89],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"id":90,"by":11,"text":91},"4158276","I compose all of the music at the moment, but as the business grows I would like to potentially bring in other composers and sound effect artists to offer a wider selection of…",[],"paid","launched","solo",{"praise":97,"objections":123,"requests":170,"questions":211,"alternatives":233},[98,111],{"value":99,"source":58,"evidence":100},"Good quality, appealing music at a low price",[101,102,106,107],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"4158283","jakesgordon","I have purchased a few tracks from Lucky Lion studios in the past for some personal projects (http:\u002F\u002Fcodeincomplete.com\u002F) and been very happy. I highly recommend them. Good…",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"4158247","mkilling","Wow those tracks really are cheap. $100 per track would still be cheap.",{"value":112,"source":58,"evidence":113},"Useful resource for developers who cannot compose",[114,115,119],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"4158228","stewie2","Thank you, this is extremely useful. I'm a programmer, I can handle some light graphics work. But I can't do music.",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"4158296","ga0bi","as a developer+designer team, this resource is going to be tremendous for us! thank you :)",[124,143,158],{"value":125,"source":58,"evidence":126},"Prices are too low",[127,131,135,139],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"4158289","ef4","I'm curious about your choice of pricing. My uninformed guess is that you can charge substantially more than this and still provide great value. Consider that $5 is about the…",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"4158485","esonderegger","Nicely done! A lot of the commenters here think you're charging too little and I agree. Have you thought about having two pricing tiers: one for non-exclusive use and much higher…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"4158576","JoshTriplett","> Have you thought about having two pricing tiers: one for non-exclusive use and much higher one (maybe $100 per track?) for exclusive use? I think you've vastly underestimated a…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"4158393","hmgauna","As a musician and former gamer, I think this is a great idea and interesting discussion about pricing and business models. Have you thought about a commission\u002Fshare model? I…",{"value":144,"source":58,"evidence":145},"Website is slow and relies on JavaScript and Flash",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"4158391","dkersten","I couldn't browse at all - kept getting knocked back the loading bar. I'm using Firefox on linux. As others have said already, I'd suggest making a javascript-free version for…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"4158467","peterjmag","Great idea! One recommendation: Currently, your site loads a complete instance of the audio player for each track, which causes Flash's memory usage to shoot up by a couple…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"4158163","dltylol","I hope you're a good composer becase you're definitely not good at making websites :( Good luck!",{"value":159,"source":58,"evidence":160},"Site showed errors under load",[161,162,166],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"4158446","timaelliott","Haha, was just going to say the same. Got some \"error establishing database connection\". Looks like we broke his server.",{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"4158459","josscrowcroft","Ough this sounds fantastic but you should have installed WP Super Cache!! Bookmarked to check back later.",[171,179,189,193,203],{"value":172,"source":58,"evidence":173},"Non-exclusive and exclusive pricing tiers",[174,175],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"4158504","headbiznatch","I second the idea of the non-exclusive\u002Fexclusive price tiers. I would also suggest relating pieces with one another when they might make sense as a suite (i.e. same genere,…",{"value":180,"source":58,"evidence":181},"Sound effects and jingles",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"4158231","iharris","The website could use some optimization but it's a great start. I like the music that you've posted so far. One question, though: Would you consider doing short musical sound…",{"id":187,"by":11,"text":188},"4158253","That's actually on my to-do list. I want to create a series of shorter \"jingles\" that can be packaged and sold as bundles in various styles (so you'd have a more orchestral set,…",{"value":190,"source":58,"evidence":191},"Better search and filtering by tempo, instrument and genre",[192],{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},{"value":194,"source":58,"evidence":195},"More chiptune tracks",[196,200],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"4158209","rex64","Cool! Would love more chiptune songs!",{"id":201,"by":11,"text":202},"4158287","Thanks, that's definitely one of the more popular genres so I'm planning on bulking up in that area for sure.",{"value":204,"source":58,"evidence":205},"Library bundle or license purchase",[206,207],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"4158680","whiskers","These are great! Have you any plans to provide a package including everything for a single price? 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Are you going to open up to other composers to sell…",{"value":227,"source":58,"evidence":228},"Will other composers be able to sell through the site",[229,230],{"id":223,"by":224,"text":225},{"id":231,"by":168,"text":232},"4158470","PS I'm also a composer, when can I upload tracks for others to buy? :o)",[234],{"value":235,"source":58,"evidence":236},"Kevin MacLeod's incompetech music",[237],{"id":238,"by":239,"text":240},"4158390","matthewdanger","Very cool resource and there are some great tracks here. I'm excited to see how you expand the library to accompany all kinds of different projects, even beyond games. I'm quite…",{"comments":41,"answered":39,"key":242},[243,244,245],{"id":187,"text":188},{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":246,"text":247},"4159693","I have a custom audio service on the site as well which I recommend for people seeking exclusivity and the more traditional commission approach. 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