Posts by BCrutchfield

Been using X Lossless Decoder for a while now. It is extremely fast and has a dozen or so formats you can use from MP3 to flac, aif, WAV etc. It’s all done in a simple drag and drop operation that is completely customizable in every way.

Also does batch meta tag adding to the files as well.

Right now probably the new zerg-focused Starcraft expansion. Favorite gaming experience of all time was probably SOCOM 2 multiplayer on PS2 way back when the network adapter had to be purchased separately and screwed into the back of the console .

Spent far too many a night playing that with high school buddies back in the day.

One of my favorites is Gil Talmi’s score to the PBS documentary about origami “Between the Folds”.

The movie is available to stream on Netflix and Hulu Plus and is a very interesting watch, I’d definitely recommend checking it out!

Stuck_in_the_Basement said
Can someone enlighten the old(er) man that I am and explain what this reddit thing is all about?
The website just looks so archaic to me! But of course, I thought the same thing about twitter when it first came out.
Anyways, a brief explanation on how this could benefit us all would be much appreciated!

Basically it is where all of the material originates that ends up being reposted on 9gag or by George Takei on his Facebook page. Funny pictures, videos, memes, etc.

It definitely is kind of confusing at first, but once you make an account and find sub-reddits that interest you it can become quite the time sink, haha.

I really like EastWest’s Spaces and 2C-Audio’s verb plugins (I use Breeze and B2 but also hear Aether is pretty good as well). I just wish they would hurry up and release their 64-bit Mac update already though. Its the last group of plugins I use that forces me to run 32 bit audio server.

SonicCube said

BCrutchfield said
We should just bundle all of these complaints into the same thread, and just keep reposting the same thread with every issue in it every week and spam it with hundreds of ‘+1’s or whatever will get Envato’s attention until they start checking stuff off of the list.

Here are the things that have popped up in the forums numerous times from authors and even buyers to no avail:

1) Search Engine
2) Licensing (The whole VideoHive issue, more options for ‘broadcast rates’, options for bundle purchasing)
3) Shopping Cart
4) HTML 5 Audio Preview
5) Rating system makes no sense for AudioJungle. Buyers can preview and even download the entire audio file(s) before purchasing.
6) The similar items feature is still exploitable, and it can still link out to multiple other tracks by the same author when we were told that that would be fixed, or looked into.
7) Pricing. AudioJungles production value keeps going up and up and up and up and up and up. Uploads sound much better than they did even 6 months ago, yet the prices haven’t changed in … 2? years. Not even keeping up with inflation.

Hello BC

I completey agree with you. The only thing which i dont understand exactly is the point with the shoping cart, what exactly do you think should be altered / improved there ?

Thanks again to everyone, and remember…...it’s the persistence that will pay off in terms of keeping this post ALIVE and an eventual statement of Envato

One of the most mentioned ideas from buyers in the forums other than the search engine is having a shopping cart system. It would allow customers to easily purchase multiple licenses for tracks and move much more quickly with purchasing a lot of different tracks from the marketplace.

Now if a customer needs to buy 5+ licenses of the same track they have to go through the buy/checkout process 5 separate times. I’ve had a customer buy 5 licenses at once before, and I believe Tim has said in the forums he has had to go through customer support in order to get a buyer a way to purchase 50 at once. This might even be losing us sales.

Imagine if a YouTuber needs 25 licenses for their channel and they come to AudioJungle and discover they have to go through the checkout 25 times. I think at some point they might just say screw it and bail, or just buy 1 license and call it a day even though they would probably buy the 25 if it were made easier with a shopping cart system.

I also mentioned in another thread that with a shopping cart system Envato could implement a cross marketplace system to make problems like the VideoHive extended license debacle go away, and not possibly screw over a whole marketplace. For example I’m sure Envato (they’re a web dev company at heart for christ’s sake) could make a smart shopping cart system that knows (through a few extra options upon upload of a VideoHive project) what AudioJungle audio it uses and give the customer an option to buy them both at the same time as a bundle on checkout or upon adding the VideoHive project to their cart. This would be a far far and away superior system than having dozens of links spread all over profile pages for collaborations, or textual links in item descriptions to let customers know what is going on with the audio in the template/video, etc.

A lot of the time I’m sure these sections of profiles or descriptions are largely ignored and buyers are left wondering how to get the audio they saw in the VH preview. They then have to either go back and find the item they bought and check, or ask the VH author if it isn’t documented well and so forth. It would be unimaginably better if VideoHive authors had a way to declare what AJ items they are using with their files on upload and the system just asked the buyer “This VideoHive project contains audio from one of our AudioJungle authors, would you like to purchase this file as well?” when they add the item to cart, or go directly to checkout.

EDIT: Also if anyone else read the dev blog recently on Envato Notes, they’ve said that a HTML 5 compatible AJ player is in the works, so that is wonderful. The mobile market sales we might gain from that would be very nice

We should just bundle all of these complaints into the same thread, and just keep reposting the same thread with every issue in it every week and spam it with hundreds of ‘+1’s or whatever will get Envato’s attention until they start checking stuff off of the list.

Here are the things that have popped up in the forums numerous times from authors and even buyers to no avail:

1) Search Engine
2) Licensing (The whole VideoHive issue, more options for ‘broadcast rates’, options for bundle purchasing)
3) Shopping Cart
4) HTML 5 Audio Preview
5) Rating system makes no sense for AudioJungle. Buyers can preview and even download the entire audio file(s) before purchasing.
6) The similar items feature is still exploitable, and it can still link out to multiple other tracks by the same author when we were told that that would be fixed, or looked into.
7) Pricing. AudioJungles production value keeps going up and up and up and up and up and up. Uploads sound much better than they did even 6 months ago, yet the prices haven’t changed in … 2? years. Not even keeping up with inflation.

I really don’t think the image banner protest will help out at all. We all already bitch far more than enough in the forums about everything that we need in order for AudioJungle to run to its full potential, and we’ve pretty much gotten nothing out of it except a headache, a bad mood, and a related items feature that nobody asked for.

AudioJungle’s sales consistently grow month to month too so I’m sure that slows down their desire to make many changes.

Build in a shopping cart or checkout system that asks the buyer something like : “This VideoHive template project contains audio by one of our AudioJungle authors. Would you like to purchase this as well?” If the buyer says yes, it instantly adds a license to their order and charges them the typical AudioJungle rate and both authors can get their nut.

This could be built into the item upload page that we all fill out tons of details on already. How much extra work would it really be for someone to type in “Track Name A” and “Author A”, or throw a link to the audio item into a few data entry fields on upload?

This would likely save people a lot of time too since quite a few authors create links with referrals, or full on Photoshop banners to advertise this partnership. With my suggestion we all would largely not have to do this, and instead just type in a few additional words when we upload new items.

Wait, wait… without a star rating system, how will buyers know which track really fits their needs well?

Also, how will they fix this issue and still get the new, more user friendly search engine completed on schedu…....... oh…. Hey, look over there!!! runs away