JANUARY. 2006

January 20 , 2006

Underscore is written by John Bickerton, Creative Director
UniqueTracks™ Production Music Library

>> New: Download Complete CD collections to your computer

>> New: Automatic shopping cart discounts

>> New: Wish List

>> Future Developments: High Impact Sound Effects series

>> Latest blog entries

>> The UniqueTracks Yahoo Group

The UniqueTracks web site offers quite a few new features and a special new CD download option. Read more below...

Immediately Download a Complete CD
to your Computer Desktop

UniqueTracks has added a new purchase-and-download option to its CD pages. Instead of waiting for your CDs to arrive through the post or DHL, you can now license and access the complete CD immediately using our MP3 Download option.

What's great about full-album downloads, besides saving shipping time, is that you also get the deep discount pricing that we offer on all of our CD sets.

This feature will help media producers who are near deadline and need music tracks quickly. It's also beneficial to our international customers because by downloading the complete albums, they'll save shipping time and also Customs duty charges.

With UniqueTracks new Album-Download option, you can now purchase and immediately download a complete CD in MP3 format to your computer.

Pack Discounts

You can also download our popular four-volume Packs. These packs offer a 15% to 25% discount over standard single volume CD pricing. When you use the MP3 Download option to select the volumes in a pack, the shopping cart will immediately discount your cart by that pack's discount percentage. This way you can download complete UniqueTracks Packs and receive the same discounted pricing.

Further MP3 Discounts

If you'd like to license individual tracks from several CD sets and create your own custom collection, you can do that and now receive special discounted pricing.

When you place 8 individual tracks in your shopping cart, the cart will immediately discount your total by 20%. Placing 10 or more tracks in your cart will trigger a 25% discount.

This simulates the deep discount pricing we offer with our album sets but lets you, in effect, create your own custom CD. You can even choose to have us burn and ship the CD to you.

Wish List

We have added a Wish List on all UniqueTracks product pages. The Wish List is handy because often when you're searching for music, you're looking at several tracks and several different sites. Now, when you find a track you like, save it to your Wish List - the Wish List will remember your choices and when you return to the UniqueTracks site, you'll be able to easily find your tracks again.

Each item placed in the Wish List lets you add your own comments about the song. You can even e-mail a copy of your Wish List to colleagues or clients showing your choices. They can then log on to your Wish List and listen to the tracks you've picked for them. This is especially useful when a client is not located close by.

This link to our Themescapes page shows the Wish List located directly under the picture of the CD.

Future Developments at UniqueTracks

Our next CD release is titled Think Positive. This is an acoustic-rock, collection. Tunes are all upbeat reflecting High Spirits, Happiness, Good Times. Think Positive should be available around February 15th.

The UniqueTracks Master Sound Effect Series is coming!
We're getting ready to release a four-volume set of High Impact Sound Effects.

Volume 1, Radio Impacts: Over 350 effects in 25 categories including Accents, Alarms, Bumpers, Choppers, Distortions, Energy Elements, Ramps, Hits, Station IDs.

Volume 2, Television Impacts Over 300 effects specially designed to be used in tandem with logos, IDs, special motion effects and more.

Volume 3, Multimedia Impacts 450 sound elements in 21 categories including Beeps, Buttons, Chimes, Clicks, Error Messages, Gears, Statics, Pings, Pop Up Elements, Screens. Everything to make your multimedia product stand out.

Volume 4, Game Impacts A Collection of 200 high energy game impacts in 40 categories. These elements are designed to provide you with effects for this world and beyond. There's Alien Movements, Arcade Impacts, Arcade Movements, Atomic Explosions, Attack Movements, Crashes, Crunches, Digital Feedbacks, Drones, Explosions, Fires, Force Fields, Lasers, Screen Transitions, Menu Buttons etc.

Royalty Free Broadcast Animations
UniqueTracks is developing a series of animations for TV production. The set will include animated backgrounds (30 seconds in length), animated and static lower-thirds, wipes, overlays, and static backgrounds.

Packages include:

1. Globes/Flags/World Money
2. Subtle Impact
3. Future/Technology
4. High Impact

Latest Blog Entries

• New podcast studio software from Apple and M-Audio
• Shock of the Old School - Springsteen and E Street Band
• Where have all the Jingles gone?

A link to our blog here. Trackbacks and comments are welcome.

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Our New Yahoo Group about Production Music

We've started a Yahoo group which is devoted to discussing soundtracks and their use in professional media productions.

The advantage of a Yahoo group is that the community of people that join can freely interact with each other.

You can:

1. Ask technical questions about the gear you're using.
2. Post a "business card" of the services you offer (with link to your website if you desire)
3. Recommend specific vendors or deals on equipment that you've come across.
4. Put up a web page of your current production, then ask members of the group to critique your work.
5. Post links to articles of interest for the group.

I archive all underscore newsletters in the group and I've added some free loops to the "files" section of the group. 

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Published by John Bickerton
Creative Director, UniqueTracks.com
Copyright: © 2006, UniqueTracks™
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