FAQ

Audiodraft offers companies a new and innovative way to order custom made audio from the artist and audio designer community by creating audio competitions. Companies can now crowdsource sound productions from a global community of talented producers. For artists we offer a place where they can gain visibility for their work and earn some money.

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We are a passionate group of four digital media professionals with background in making music. Audiodraft has been designed with passion to help artists find collaborators, work opportunities and inspire them in music production.

Yes, we want to develop and make the service better with you. Please send your feedback and feature requests by e-mail to feedback (at) audiodraft.com.

Yes, we post information about updates to our community forum after major updates. We can also send e-mail notifications about the updates.

Contact us by sending e-mail to contact (at) audiodraft.com.

Go to the Settings page (link can be found at the top right corner) and you can set your e-mail notification preferences. Remember to press Save after you are done!

That's easy! Go to Create contest and follow the instructions.

You should describe what type of audio are you looking for and where it will be used. By adding reference videos you can easily explain the desired atmosphere. You can also check out our contest as an example.

You can set the contest prize and that determines basically how much the contest costs. Remember that higher prize money will attract more audio designers to participate in your contest! Audiodraft will charge 10% of the prize money and $99 listing fee for creating a contest.

We have two kinds of licenses available: non-exclusive and exclusive. Non-exclusive means that the artist who submits the work can use and sell the work freely elsewhere. Exclusive means that the artist can't sell the work to others. Both licenses are worldwide and cover all media. You can determine the duration for a license when creating a contest. The duration can be a year, two years, five years, or perpetual.

We have a money back guarantee. If you really don't find suitable winner entry in your contest, you can close the contest and get your prize money 100% refunded.

Yes you can. That's why we have Sprint contests. Sprint Contests are short term contests in which contest holders can pick the winner at any moment before the deadline. Sprint Contests are shown with special sprint icons on the Contests page. If you want to create a sprint contest, select the "Sprint contest" option on the prize step when creating a new contest.

Yes. You can create a contest with multiple winners from the Create Contest page by selecting the "multiple winners" option on the prize step. If you have already created a contest and want to add more winners to it, contact us by sending an e-mail to contact (at) audiodraft.com

For participating in Audiodraft contests you have to be able to receive money via PayPal. You can see the latest version of PayPal's country listing from here: https://www.paypal.com/worldwide

You can start the uploading process of your entry by clicking "Submit a new entry" on a contest page.

Our service supports only WAV and MP3 audio formats. Try to chance the format of your file to MP3 or WAV format of 16 bits and 44,1kHz sample rate.

Click the entry name on a contest page and then click the "Withdrawn entry" -button from the bottom right corner.

If the license of the contest is non-exclusive you are still free to do whatever you like with the production. Exclusive license however restrains you from using the song for the duration of the contest license. The duration can be a year, two years, five years, or perpetual. After the the exclusive license has expired, you can either renew the license with the contest holder or get your exclusive rights to the production back.

If your track has already been released by a label, sold or licensed to another client or featured in a film (for example), you can't submit it to a contest. The purpose of exclusive contests is to inspire artists to create entries that are new, unique and custom-made.

Your contest entry will remain on the contest page after the contest has been closed. You don't lose any rights to your work and no one can download it. Site users and visitors can listen to it (stream). If you want to remove your entry from the contest page you must sign in and go to the entry page and press the Withdraw button.

Yes, all site users and visitors can listen to all entries on contest pages.

Contest entries can't be downloaded. Only contest holder has right to download winning work after the contest has been closed and artist has been paid.

Sampling audio content made by others without their permission is strictly forbidden! You can only use sounds that you have permission to use.

You can edit your profile from your Profile page by clicking the Edit profile button.

You can use general tags to describe you more briefly (for example genres you produce and your band names: #funk, #electro, #Funk-Brothers).

You can use skill tags to describe your abilities. You can rate your skill level with 1 to 3 stars (1 = ok, 2 = good, 3 = excellent). Filling in skill tags is very recommended so that other users can search for the skills you can provide.

You can change your password from the Settings page (link can be found at the top right corner).