UMG Blockage - Constructive Feedback please.

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Ross

Good afternoon
Thank you to Rob for answering my question about the UMG initiated blockage. I fully understand this issue now. I also notice with interest that a few Chordify users have expressed some anger with this.
Could I please provide some rational advice.
1) If UMG are concerned that some third parties are making money from using the YouTube videos, then lets look at this issue.
2) Chordify is actually a learning tool for guitar players. It helps them learn the instrument, play along with these fabulous songs, and actually keeps the artists, songwriters and record companies for ordinary musicians to keep the artist's music alive. This must be a good thing.
3) In fact I play double bass in a small music band. We learn all our music tracks from Chordify & YouTube. We make no money from this and play this music for ourselves and for friends and small local community functions.
4) The artists with UMG (see their website) are all huge music names. Get UMG to ask (say) Keith Richards if he wants his Stones songs to be played free for thousands (?) of dedicated musicians.. I would think he would say YES.
5) I pay NZ$46 for a yearly premium membership. This is not a lot, only small change really. So that UMG are not out of pocket I will offer to pay another $46 to them for me to use the music rights they have blocked. This way no ones looses.
6) lets have a constructive debate by Chordify community. I volunteer to be a pro-active supporter of Chordify.
7) Explain to our users clearly what's going on. Contract UMG. Contact Keith.
Keep us informed please.
Regards Ross, a dedicated, retired, 69 year old double bass player from New Zealand. Kia Ora

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  • Stephen Wisdom
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    I think The best way around this is to use mp3 or mp4 from Music Library on hard drive to import to Chordify that way YouTube can not block it or UMG Thay Have no control over whats on your hard drive Riffstation works from hard drive But i like Chordifys Lay out .

    i Payed for my YouTube

    also found when on iphone Chordify app songs play ok but Blocked on PC ?????

    Regards Stephen Retired 64 Year old

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  • Ross

    Hello

    From my earlier post about the UMG block I have found a solution / work-around

    This is for a PC

    1) Go to YouTube and find the exact video clip / song track that you used to play in Chordify

    2) Open up a new Tab and do a Google search for

    mp3-youtube.download/en .....  this is a Youtube Mp3 Converter

    3) Go back to the Youtube clip and copy the URL link from 1)

    4) Then go back to the Converter and pase in the copied URL link.  Then hit Download.

    5) This will create a Mp3 file.  Have patience. Find the directory location on your hard drive.

    6) Go to Chordify and hit UPLOAD SONG

    7) Find the Mp3 file and upload.  Have patience and it will Chordify this song and put this into your UPLOADS section.

    8) Then you can play along as normal with the song.

    All the best from Ross, a double bass player from New Zealand.

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  • Ross

    Hi Stephen

    I found that if you do it this way ie to put the Youtube link to mp3 and then upload to Chordify, then when you log into your mobile phone the new song that was previously blocked is now fully avialable to use.

    Give it a try.  You'll like it.  Regards Ross from NZ.

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  • Raul Manriquez

    Hello Ross,

    Thanks for your advice, but today doesn't work to me. Maybe the song is blocked?

     

    Raul, From Chile!

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  • Ross

    Hi there Raul

    Do a copy paste into this user post of the whole YouTube link of the particular song that you are wanting to play along with.

    The link will look something like this.  For example

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeFPc22WkUE

    I'll have a look at it for sure, and maybe some other Chordify users can also reasearch it and come up with a work-around.  We can collectively see what we can make happen for you.  Cheers Ross from N.Z.

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  • Ross

    Hey Raul

    Have you sorted out your blocked song yet?

    Let us know the name of the song and the artist/s name?  I would be very interested with this.  Cheers Ross

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