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www.idjpool.com
Tell him Jynxx recommended you. Its the best pool I have ever been in, hands down.
You can download ANY song that is on there (out of like 50,000 songs), at any time. It is done by FTP, so you can choose any song you want.... it isn't like "This comes out now, so you can only get it this month". You can download anything from 1950 to what he just put up this week.
Seriously, best pool ever.
Tell him Jynxx recommended you. Its the best pool I have ever been in, hands down.
You can download ANY song that is on there (out of like 50,000 songs), at any time. It is done by FTP, so you can choose any song you want.... it isn't like "This comes out now, so you can only get it this month". You can download anything from 1950 to what he just put up this week.
Seriously, best pool ever.
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DJ Jigglezz
Guest
in all honesty Promo, Top Hits and our site sponsor PRIMECUTS are not Music Pools. In fact they are Subscription Services. There is subtle differences.
Totally agree! I prefer the pool I am at over a subscription service. Even though you pay monthly (for the pool), you choose what you want and when you want to get it. I mentioned in that thread about using Wireless at a gig about having a reliable source, and I know that I have a 97% chance of getting just about anything off of there that I don't have, all within a minute and in straight-from-the-studio quality.
I used to work for a "Big Name" (are they still???) remix company, and we used to have to do a ton of research into what we THOUGHT would be hits in the next month or so, so that we could get them out the door on the monthly CD's we sent out. I would say a good part of the time we either put too much faith in big name artists that ended up having flops, or totally missing the mark. Regardless, we put out songs (and I, and other remixers worked on those songs) that no one probably ever used. So I have always been a big believer in 'on demand' content over a monthly CD or similar media.
Some subscription services offer downloads I think, but please correct me if I am wrong... I *think* it is only that particular month, or "issue" that is out at that time. You would have to pay extra if you wanted to go back to, say, February to get just 1 or 2 songs you may want.
Ahh well, I have rambled on a long time... It all depends on what type of music you want and how you want to get it. Narrow that down and you will be in a better place to judge what service/pool you want to choose.
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Oh, and how much you feel like PAYING too! lol
That is because legit professional music services are not allowed to offer music from years ago, as you mentioned your service of choice does.
I talked to a DJ interested in our PrimeCuts service yesterday. He subscribes to one of these music pools. He has 5 DJs. He gets 1 subscription to the pool. He said that is all the pool makes him get. Any legit music service for professionals will tell you that you need 1 subscription for every DJ you have. We have companies who get over 100 subscriptions for all their DJs. Supposedly, those same companies could just buy 1 from these pools and be legal. I would imagine all the little guy single-op DJs wouldn't be too happy knowing a big company with a bunch of DJs pays the same amount for music as they do.
Kinda makes you wonder when the main music services for DJs (PrimeCuts, Promo Only, RPM, ERG) all have one set of rules and these pools have their own rules.
There is a place for both. There are benefits that are offered by DJ Pools that Subscriptions do not and vice versa. It will ultimately depend on what the individual is seeking.
Are those types of pools even close to being legit...?
Their TOS is quite interesting...
Every pool I have ever been in is legit. I pay for the service, and the album companies send out the tracks to the pool owner to distribute, for which he/she pays royalties. I was part of two record pools back in '98 and '99 and I was the one who had to deal with Tommy Boy, Jive, Def Jam, and Universal. They came and dropped off records once a week, and I had the job of sorting them into the bins for the DJs who belonged to the pool. So it IS legit from my vantage point. I don't know how it couldn't be, since royalties are being paid for every song.
Take my remixing for example. Every download sends me a code to which I have to report once a month to show how much I owe in royalties. I only have to pay one place for all the labels I use, but you get my point... I am sure the record pools have to do the same thing. The one I am part of right now I know has to pay for every single download. So wouldn't that make it legal? I mean, isn't that basically just you buying the music from them anyway?
Take my remixing for example. Every download sends me a code to which I have to report once a month to show how much I owe in royalties. I only have to pay one place for all the labels I use, but you get my point... I am sure the record pools have to do the same thing. The one I am part of right now I know has to pay for every single download. So wouldn't that make it legal? I mean, isn't that basically just you buying the music from them anyway?
By the way, royalties are nowhere close to how expensive most people think they are. I average about 15-30 downloads per week, and I pay ASCAP about $25-$50 a month, paid every 3 months... sometimes more, sometimes less. They have me on this credit system, where the number of songs that are downloaded are given a rating along with how much the share of the actual song is. A lot of my songs are as low as $0.50 per download.
So you can see how pools can easily not only pay for the royalties, but make a huge profit off of it when they charge $25-$50 a month per person.
So you can see how pools can easily not only pay for the royalties, but make a huge profit off of it when they charge $25-$50 a month per person.
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DJ Jigglezz
Guest
No, I believe the real one knows the difference between "they're" and "their".