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Audiosocket

Audiosocket is a music licensing and technology company founded by Brent McCrossen and Jennifer Miller with dual headquarters in Seattle, WA and New Orleans, LA.

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Audiosocket is a music licensing and technology company founded by Brent McCrossen and Jennifer Miller 1 with dual headquarters in Seattle, WA and New Orleans, LA.2

Audiosocket are the creators of MaaS3 (Music-as-a-Service), a music search and licensing technology designed for integration with video and photo sharing platforms, virtual worlds, online games and social networks. Audiosocket's MaaS™ technology was first launched with Vimeo in the form of Vimeo's online Music Store.4 Audiosocket has integrated MaaS to launch online storefronts with partners including MOFILM,5 Indieflix,6 and LearnCreate.7

AudioSocket's service can be used by independent filmmakers to license tracks for use in their films and other creative projects.89

In 2013, Audiosocket collaborated with SourceAudio to add licensing watermarks to the latter's five million audio tracks.10 The watermarking software is called LicenceD and is intended to help musicians and composers collect royalties when their tracks are played and distributed.11

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  1. "About - Audiosocket".
  2. Holmes, David. "Seattle’s Audiosocket partners with 110 music libraries to try to fix copyright on YouTube". Pando Daily.
  3. Rao, Leena (19 July 2011). "Audiosocket's Music as a Service Allows Startups To Offer Licensed Music To Users". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  4. Empson, Rip (21 September 2011). "Vimeo Launches Audiosocket-Powered Music Store To Bring Tunes To Video". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  5. Sawers, Paul (6 April 2012). "Movie Crowdsourcing Company MOFILM Taps Audiosocket's Indie Music Licensing Platform". TheNextWeb.com. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  6. Perez, Sarah (6 December 2011). "Need Tunes For An Indie Film? Audiosocket Launches A Fully Hosted Music Storefront". TechCrunch. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  7. "LearnCreate Tunes Into Audiosocket For Music Content". LearnCreate. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  8. Jesse Cannon; Todd Thomas (25 November 2012). Get More Fans: The DIY Guide to the New Music Business. Jesse Cannon. pp. 642–. ISBN 978-0-9885613-1-1.
  9. "AP offers subscribers music through Audiosocket". CNet, July 17, 2012, Donna Tam
  10. "Audiosocket Aims to Reduce YouTube Copyright Conflicts". Billboard, by Alex Pham, Los Angeles | September 16, 2013
  11. "An Interview with Brent McCrossen, CEO of Audiosocket". Silicon Bayou, June 17, 2015