Yesterday I had a music track rejected on the basis that it had too many variations:
There are too many variations here. You are only allowed to include up to 5 variations on a single piece of music (including the main track).
I had included 11 versions: full track, percussion underscore, 60, 30, 15 secs, and various seamless loops,
This line is from a recent email from Envato, trying to get me to renew my Elements subscription:
Before you go, have you…Explored 40,000+ PremiumBeat tracks?
With the entire PremiumBeat catalog now included as part of your subscription, you can enjoy every stem, loop, and version in their library plus more from our now 300,000+ tracks.
With Envato now gearing their advertising to being about the benefits of subscribers being able to gain access to stems, loops, and multiple variations of the new 40,000+ PremiumBeat tracks, and most original music author’s Elements income having been decimated by the recent changes, we have to have the option of being able to include as many variations as we please, as PremiumBeats have, in order to have fair go at competing, and if we are not allowed to, this would seem to be a case of discrimination.
It should not be one rule for PremiumBeats and another for the rest of us, if we are not allowed to submit multiple variations, then PremiumBeat should not have been allowed to either.
This seems like an ill thought out mess to me. Thoughts?