Last September, we announced the Kompoz Published Songs feature, allowing Kompoz members to easily publish completed collaborations.  Musicians can now use Kompoz to launch a collaboration project, work with other musicians around the world to complete the song, publish that song, and offer customized licensing options for use in films, TV, and other commercial projects. Published songs appear on the Kompoz Finished Songs section, on the Kompoz iPhone streaming audio app, and on Boxee.  

Today we are thrilled to announce a new channel -- a distribution deal with BIGSTAR.tv, the global headquarters for independent films.  BIGSTAR is now streaming published Kompoz songs directly to its community, allowing film producers to quickly and easily license the music for use in their feature films, TV projects, and webisodes.   Film producers can browse and listen to published Kompoz songs directly within the BIGSTAR.tv site, and purchase commercial use licenses in one step.  

BIGSTAR has created an entire user experience within their site, pulling in Kompoz songs using the public Kompoz Application Programming Interface (API).  The user interface they created is stunning.  

 

If your song is licensed, sales revenue will automatically be added to your Kompoz account, and an e-mail will be sent to notify you of the sale.  You’ll be able to withdraw funds to your PayPal account from within your Kompoz My Account page.  Revenue will be split 50/25/25, with 50% going to the musicians (split equally by the collaborators), 25% going to Kompoz, and 25% going to BIGSTAR.  

To have your song included in the BIGSTAR community, publish your completed song (finished collaborations only), and be sure to select the checkbox that says "I want to offer visitors the option of licensing this song."  All of the collaborators must agree to the licensing option before it will be made available on BIGSTAR.

this is too cool!

WOW!!!!

Very Good!

I owe my entire fleet of fancy cars to kompoz!

Thanks Raf.

thanks for posting..very cool..
Richard

I wanted to ask the question about this and the answer came today. Good job Raf.

Yes, I was hoping this would come about ... good news for everybody here. They should find everything they're looking for with all the talent on this site, no need to go anywhere else hahaha. Now, all we need are requests to write custom songs for their movies, webisodes, etc.

Very cool.

Interesting use of the kompoz API... although it looks like the tempo was mistaken for talents needed in the search function.

I am really liking this.
Thanks Raf.

Most excellent! This is most good!

Brilliant, young Raf :o)

Wow! SWEET!

Very good, Raf! I use the Kompoz API from my cappuchino machine, to make coffee that rocks. Also works great :)

@Marty - I mistook tempo for talent throughout my adolescence. My goal to do his day is Wabash Cannonball @ 240 bpm.

@Bjorn -- The Cappuchino API is BETA! Use at your own risk. Contents may be hot.

I just noticed the style and mood are also switched. It's not as noticable as the tempo thing.

In NC, the Wabash Cannonball is always performed at 257BPM. Real cloggers need it that fast.

Good catch Marty. I've sent this on to BIGSTAR.

Which? The API screw-up or the proper tempo for the Wabash Cannonball?

The most annoying API problem is when you ask for a decaf cappuchino and it makes a mocha-latte-strawberry-prosciutto. I am surprised that I seem to be the only one having that problem.

You are not using a checksum. The API does a random boot-sector tandem registry call, which doubles the binary return variable. I had that problem too.

yes, that applies if you go big-endian, but as you know I always use adaptive Lempel-Ziv encoding to avoid the parity bit being stripped off.

Peter, I'm not sure what you mean. I see the "artists" field under the song title (on the list pages), and it does show the artist names. I also see the artists (and liner notes) on the details page.

Ah, that's just the label for the rows that appear below it. See the Four artists underneath? Not the clearest of user interface designs.

lyrics also show not correctly ordered by sentences,only stacked text.....did i explain it well enough?

How is the order of songs on BigStar selected?

The order of the songs appear in the same order as on Kompoz (by release date). Visitors can resort.

Tanx

Resorting must be the last resort?

I was at the Last Resort last summer, nice place.

excellent initiative

excellent initiative

Just curious (always am), but I launched the song "Suicidal Days" days ago, but only today did everyone agree to the licensing agreement. Did I miss the boat, or is there still a chance it could be picked up? Thanks! :) (Seconds later...) Nevermind... They are QUICK!! I see our song already listed. Groovy. :)