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Originally Posted by rcm  I have said this same thing on some other threads about Taxi. The thing I like about Taxi is that they are a business that does exactly what they say they are going to do, at exactly the price they say they are going to do it for. There is no shadey dealings or upsell. Also for your membership fee you and a guest get to go to the Taxi Road Rally which is a very cool music conference and well worth $150/person. I am not a member of Taxi but I have been invited to speak and their conference several times. I speak at conferences all over the world and the Taxi one is probably my favorite. So even if you never do a submission, its still a pretty good deal.
I also know a few people quite well that work at Taxi, and I also know major A&R people and publishers that use Taxi as a resource to try and find music and talent. One of the things I hear a lot from the screeners (the people that listen to the music) is that the major problem is that people submit stuff that is way off from the listing, such as people submitting 80s metal for a blues listing.
I am not going to say Taxi is right for everyone or a better route than having a good personal relationship with publishers, music supervisors and A&R people, but the idea that Taxi is some sort of BS scam operation is pretty far off the mark. |
The problem with taxi is you're not paying to have your music submitted to people who might want to hear it - you're paying to enter a series of their song contests happening in the confines of their office.
If taxi put all submissions passing a plausibility threshold in the post and stuck a gold star on those they thought ideal then a least you'd be paying for something tangible.
To be fair to them that's what it says on their tin - but never the less...