[DECtalk] Vocal Writer
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Sat Mar 4 18:50:19 EST 2006
You misunderstand. The songs are a bonus on my software, I pass those out
all the time. What I'm selling are the instructions for programing your own
songs. I have audio teaching instructions. The CD is $29.95. You actually
think that price covers 1057 songs? Heck no!
I do charge $7.00 to program by request. But that's to buy the cheet music
and mailing if needed. And when I come out ahead I buy new equipment. Plus
I need ink, paper, blank CD's and all that.
If you could do it for free, I'd love to know how. I get tons of requsts
for stuff that often requires me to buy a $17.00 book to get the sheet music
for one song. So after so many requests you start to go broke. You end up
having to charge, trust me. If nothing else, charge for the time.
So it often looks and sounds like I'm selling songs but I'm not. I add 4
songs a week on average and don't want to start a list of what I have. So
rather than sending out one file after another, I sell the entire 1047 files as a
bundle and offer a life time free updates. This way I still make $7.00 per
request, but each song gets added to the big bundle. So the people that
request an update gets everything that was added since their last update. In
some ways it's the luck of the draw unless they make a specific request.
It might be a dumb way to do it but sheet music is not cheap. i'm dreading
the next few months because I really need more children's songs. I hate
doing those because they are short and easy. I prefer long hard stuff with a lot
of key changes. The quire director at Church hates it when I sing a special
because I like doing complicated versions of stuff. She's getting used to
me though. The funny thing is I'm in bell quire and she'll select the hardest
stuff for us to play with key changes up the ying yang, but yet she wants me
to go easy on her. (right)
I'm hoping I can find some kid's songs that are busy. I don't have any
requests, I just feel I need more kid's songs.
SNOOPI
In a message dated 3/4/2006 12:27:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
geczy at earthlink.net writes:
Hey,
Well that is one point. But then, like Flint is selling his songs online
for 10 dollars. He is making money off of someones work! That's when I think
you should pay a couple buks to the company who sold the original songs.
I'm not saying here that Flint should go in jail, I'm saying my opinion. If
I ever get into making songs, I will never everever ever ever ever sell them
on cds. If I do author cds, I will author them for free. Everyone should
have the write to a cd with 50 songs or more, regardless if their African
American, Hungarian, German, Chinees, etc.
Regards: Tomi
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Dectalk at aol.com
>To: dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:40:19 EST
>Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Vocal Writer
>I have an argument on that. First of all, anyone can sing in the shower
>without paying royalties. Well, people who can't talk have Dectalk in
their
>communication device, so what if they wanted to sing in the shower?
>Now, when I buy sheet music I'm converting it into an alternative format
>which is legal. Alternative formats for the disabled are exampt from
paying
>royalties which is why the library for the blind can put books and
newspapers on
>tape, CD, oe the talking book radio.
>A Dectalk file can not be converted back into sheet music, therefore I'm
not
>copying anything.
>Now, to record an album, yes, you do need to pay royalties. But to just
>sing a Scout song, camp song, sing Happy Birthday to a friend, or
whatever, I
>will fight to the death before I pay royalties.
>If a 5 year old starts singing "THE WHEELS ON THE BUS" no one has to pay
>royalties. So setting up a communication device so a disabled 5 year old
can
>sing the same song is simply equal access. Dectalk is nothing more than an
>external voice for many people. It's no different than walking with a
>wheelchair, seeing with a seeing eye dog, or anything else.
>SNOOPI
>In a message dated 3/4/2006 9:57:19 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>geczy at earthlink.net writes:
>Hey,
>Flint Million's site ( www .themillionweb.com) had some that were not on
the
>list.
>Third questions:
>Here's what I think about all this dectalk and singing business: Since
these
>songs are copywrited, you would need permition from the authors to sell
>them. I think as long as the songs are free and not sold for 30 dollars
per 50
>song, you would be ok with Plannetmirror and all that crap. Yes, you still
>made it, but you did not rewrite the song's text from scratch. If you do
sell
>it for instance, you would need to ask the writers if you can and if they
say
>so, dedicate 5 percent of your sails to the writers. So I don't think
>Jayson could get in trouble with that stupid company. I mean, cmon, their
site
>is full of spam!
>Anyways, try flint's site, it's under speech synthesis songs. Hth
>Tomi
>)
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Matthew Horspool" <drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk
>>To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com
>>Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:22:48 -0000
>>Subject: [DECtalk] Vocal Writer
>>Hello,
>>Can I first congratulate the person who created the more recent Vocal
>>Writer songs? They're wonderful! Could that person please contact me
>>off-list?
>>Secondly, is there a website where I can download Vocal Writer demo
>>songs other than those on the archive?
>>Thirdly, and perhaps more seriously, there are a few songs in the
>>/vocalwriter directory on the archive that might prevent the
>>planetmirror mirror if they found out. I'm wondering if it's worth
>>moving those to a separate archive which is not mirrored?
>>---
>>Matthew F. Horspool
>>E-mail:
>>matthew at thehorspools.com
>>Microsoft .net Messenger:
>>drjaws at blueyonder.co.uk
>>Skype:
>>matthewhorspool
>>Web:
>>www.thehorspools.com
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