Music Software Deals

Best Service tend to have the best pricing on the Melda products in general:

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?manufacturer=46

Here's all of the prices across different vendors at the moment (plus price history since Feb):

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/Hollywood-Orchestra-Opus---Diamond-Edition-by-EastWest-35135/

4 hours ago, Syphus said:

I was doing a search for the word "Chord"  (I was looking for chordpotion)  and I got a LOT of hits from the STORE ADSR for the same deal, same price

The item was "Chords" - Price $19.95 - Manufacturer was WA Productions

I think this is a bug in your search - I believe there should only be one listed with the above parameters.

 

Thanks,

Syphus

Thanks! Yep that's a big which we're fixing at the moment. Each of the duplicates gets merged into one

Lowest price so far!

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/price-history/Continuo-2-by-Karanyi-Sounds-2011/

Added Producerspot.com store now too - so we're now collecting data from 18 stores in total (and over 200 brands)

And in case you're wondering, here are the cheapest products on ADSR on sale right now between $0 - $19 in ascending order

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?store=525&price_to=19&sort_by=price_asc

On 5/17/2022 at 12:30 PM, mibby said:

Sweet! HUGE time saver right there!  I keep meaning to respond to your earlier questions but I've been very short on time  lately...

 

Thanks. We've also updated the search box so if you search for a company name (manufacturer) it will show the results there too. Eg. if you search for Project SAM, it will show you all Project Sam products in the results

@mibby We've now added the new feature you asked for. Now when you change the search/display criteria, the URL autoupdates with the filters you choose so you can bookmark that particular search for the future. For example:

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?price_to=20&sortBy=price_asc

The above URL will show all deal from $0-$20 in ascending order starting from cheapest to most expensive within that bracket. This one would show all deals from Plugin Boutique only that are $0-$10:

https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?store=524&price_to=10&sortBy=price_asc

So just change your search/filter criteria then save that URL as a bookmark and it will load the data you're looking for each time automatically 😀

On 5/7/2022 at 4:33 PM, mibby said:

FR: Would be informative if there was a Updated Date/Time on the main page somewhere. Maybe next to the Grid/List icon below the filters?

Thanks, we've added that to the top of the website @mibby so you can see the last time the stores were scraped

A few comments:

- You can type into the price slider to select your min/max prices to show (we'll improve the layout later though)

- We're in the process of updating the price alert email structure at the moment thanks for that feedback

- We've updated the layout of the table view a little to improve that

- We're in the process of storing your preferred search defaults at the moment. How it will work is each time you update the search filtering (eg. select a max price or chose a category) we update the URL (without reloading) and you can just bookmark that search in your browser or share the URL with someone.  When you visits again using that URL we do a search based on the parameters in the URL. So no need for us to save your profile / information, we just update the URL based on your search parameters.

One question for you that I'm still not sure about:

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Just like the pic above. Right now, when I'm on the "price-alerts" page, clicking the Product takes me to "price-history" page. I would rather go to page for THAT Product. (Audiority Grainspace in my example in the post above.)

So say you have a price alert setup on Audiority Grainspace. You click on the link for Audiority Grainspace in your "price alerts" page and it will bring you to where? The Audiority website? The Grainspace product page on Plugin Boutique etc.?

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FR: I don't think you're scraping the Developer's own store pages?  Sometimes they have just as good sales as the resellers. Plus, some devs give discounts on their own site if you own products from them. Can you add "Developer Stores" to the pages you scrape for deals?

Yes we scrape Waves directly for example. Who in particular do you want to see scraped?

@mibbythanks for all of this feedback really appreciate it, please keep it coming!

1. Slider over dropdown - we're fixing this at the moment

2. Slider being too large - yep we could change how its shown

3. Email alerts we intend to improve and are looking at right now. Do you mind me asking where are the price alerts from in your screenshot? What would you like to see in your price alert email, image, unsubscribe from one, unsibscribe from all?

When you say you expect to be brought through to the product tab instead of history page, what would that look like exactly? Just a blank page with nothing other than the square on it? What is the point of being shown the square image when you click the link instead of the full history page?

Added some more features:

1. Price range filter - choose the price range for deals you'd like to see 

2. Added "add alert" button to each deal on front page - default option is any price drop but you can select any options

Working on the "search" functionality at the moment to let you search for any product even if there's no deal happening at the moment so you can see the price history for that product, setup alerts etc.

1 hour ago, mibby said:

And you added the "Add Alert" next to the History tab! 

• However.... it just seems to open to another window of MSD, so I don't think it's quite working yet.  It should do the same thing as the "Add Alert" button from the History page, right?

The sorting in the Alerts section works great! 

The check-boxes in the Alerts section is nice for maintenance too.  It lets me remove the duplicate entries.  😉

• FR: When you open on the "Add Alert" page, can you default to a choice like "Any Price Drop"?  And while I'm being nit-picky, can you make "Any price drop" the first item AND default to it?  That's would makes sense to me anyway.

Observation: This is just a general one, but it might be handy for "personalizing" the MSD browsing. Once I've entered my email address to set up an Alert, you have now captured my "user id" and can pass it around in the URL.  Now that you have it, you could use it to personalize EACH of the pages to a user's preference if that sort of setup existed. For example, I'd like to get rid of all the "Samples" and "Instruments" noise initially and just browse effects.  I realize you have the Categories sort, but I don't use that since it's not dependable. But keeping my preferred Manufactures (Developers) and Stores could work, where those drop-downs are pre-checked for me when you have my email address.  

• FR: Maybe there could be an option to "Save your filters" and if I select it, then you prompt for my email address? 

BTW, are our email addresses "protected" from being farmed? Are they masked or encrypted in any way? How do you store them? I can see your site being a big target for bots once it really takes off.  And now that I'm on the subject, please tell me you're not going to sell them! 😳

Just thinking out loud really....

 

 

 

 

1. Add alert only opens a new window - yep we're working on it at the moment actually so not done yet

2. Making "any price drop" first option and default chosen - Sure we can do that, added to list

3. Personalising/saving filters/protecting emails - ha no we're never going to sell your email address and there are a number of security measures in place already. However we have a number of ideas for personalisation and more protections going forward

On 4/22/2022 at 12:50 PM, mibby said:

That would work nicely, I think.  I just now noticed you link from the History page.

I'm sure you're getting tired of hearing this, but this is a great idea and super useful!  Well done!

We've added some filtering on the price alert page (where you can see all of your price alerts setup) and you can click through to the "product price history" page for any product in your price alerts page now too (just click the product name)

45 minutes ago, mibby said:

Hello Mr. MSD guy, a coule of more issues to bug you about:

1. the email notification lets you add duplicates. ("XenoVerb" is a duplicate, see pic)

2. As we add these notifications, some sorting options would be useful, like a Dev column.

 

 

Great ideas thanks we'll add these to the list!

Thomann and KVR Marketplace both added to the website now

58 minutes ago, mibby said:

That would work nicely, I think.  I just now noticed you link from the History page.

I'm sure you're getting tired of hearing this, but this is a great idea and super useful!  Well done!

Cool we'll do that so.

Thanks glad you like it! Any other suggestions please do send our way!

15 hours ago, mibby said:

Good point.  I was thinking along the line of the Gallery View where the user picks one of the stores that has the item. 

How do you determine which store to go to when you select a product link from the List View?  It looks like the last one in the list maybe?  

Maybe we could just link the product name in the price alerts page to the main product price history/alerts page so when you click it you will see all of the ongoing sales there?

1 hour ago, mibby said:

No, I'd like to be able to click on the Product from there and go to the store where it is being sold.  So, in the "Price setup notification" section (and I think it should be separate from the History section) - assuming I'll be able to browse my "Price setups" without having to set one up and go to the email link that is sent (i.e. I'm not setting one up now so I can't look at the ones I have set up) - it would be super handy to be able to click on my Product from right there and go to the store that is selling it.  I hope that made sense!  😦

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OK, I just set one up.  So from my "All Alerts" page where it lists the Price Alerts I have set up, it would be great to be able to click on a Product in my list and go to the store just like on the main page of the site....

OK cool, but which store? Because you setup a price alert for multiple stores, so when you click on the product name, which store does it bring you to?

15 hours ago, mibby said:

Just making sure you saw this one!  Thanks!

Hey sorry I missed that one. So you mean when you're in your "profile" page that lists all of your price alerts, you'd like to be able to click on the product name for each price alert to see the full price history information for that product?

14 hours ago, abacab said:

@Music Software Deals Here > https://www.thomannmusic.com/hotdeals_GF_software.html

Tip: if there is a "Show More" button at the bottom of a category list, you need to keep clicking them until the full list is shown. The Virtual Instruments and Audio Effects categories seem to have the longest lists.

Yea unfortunately that's not exactly right though because the Virtual Instruments & Samplers section has hardware like keyboards and Maschine samplers in it:

https://www.thomannmusic.com/hotdeals_GF_virtual_instruments_and_samplers.html?SWVI=smb_22

Also, they never list the "full price" and "reduced price" just current price. We'll see what we can do though, thanks

3 hours ago, mibby said:

ADSR (adsrsounds.com) doesn't seem to be in the stores list anymore?

Its working now. Sometimes if they make a small change to their website the bot needs to be updated but its never offline for long.

2 hours ago, abacab said:

Synapse Audio seems to be missing from the manufacturers list. They sell direct, as well as through Thomann Music, which also is missing from the stores list.

https://www.thomannmusic.com/synapse_audio_the_legend.htm

We would like to add Thomann but unfortunately they don't list all music software deals in one place so its hard to do this without scraping their entire product database daily. Do you see anywhere they have a list of all existing software deals?

1 hour ago, Tim Smith said:

Well he's already helped to make a sale.

I bought the Uebershall upright bass from Best Service.  I was under the impression is was a basic VST sample library. 

It sorta kinda is. I was pleasantly surprised it has built in Elastik technology I've never used before. I know Cakewalk has Elastik stretch capability. This is entirely different. I was able to get not only nice bass for a jazz track. I was able to get the groove using the 22 dollar library. Seems a cross between a vst and a looper. This isn't a library for rockers.

Just thought you'd like to know the site is already having an effect on my wallet.

Glad to hear it!

Next feature we're working on is the "Search" box that will let you search for a specific product even if its not on sale

By the way, we've added Best Service to the website now too!

Hi @mibbygreat feedback thank you.

1. Yes its super basic for now just as an MVP

2. Yep its on the to do list

3. Interesting ideas, we'll take a look and see what we can do

1 hour ago, mibby said:

1. May I suggest a link on the bottom of the tile next to History?  I don't usually go into the History link,  and I obviously didn't think to look there for the Price Notification.  🤔  (This might be the first UI feature you've done that I felt was not intuitive.)

2. This makes me think of another thing. The History won't be available for a Product unless it is currently on sale, right? But obviously you're keeping that info somewhere. (?)  It follows then that you will know about any product that has ever been on sale since you started scraping them....   Are you scraping each Dev's products then? Is that how we'll be able to "search for any product"?  Maybe you can display ALL products for a Dev, whether or not they are on sale?

Just thinking out loud really.  I wonder if there's value in that?  I suppose a customer could search THAT way and find a plugin he didn't know about...  Like FREE plugins!  The user could set up set up his filters to display FREE plugins.  ...And the most recent FREE plugins.  No immediate pay-off for you, but it could drive more eyes to your site....

 

1. Yes good point I guess. We'll make it more clear
2. Yes that's why I mentioned it. We're going to add a search box so that you can search for any product (whether on sale or not) and setup a price alert / see the price history even if its not currently on sale

18 hours ago, mibby said:

2 questions:

1. Where do you go to set up the Price Notifications?

2. Can you set up a PN for a product that is not currently on sale?

 

1. Price notifications are in the price history on each product. So click into a deal, scroll to the bottom and you'll see the price notifications.

2. No actually, but we'll add a search box shortly so you can search for any product and set up a price notification