Cut Counts Now

The News Music Now family of websites is observing the Campaign For Cues. Click on the "Campaign For Cues" link at the top of this page to find out how you can help News Music Now by giving of your cue sheets. Click on the "Send Yours" button to take your browser to a location where you can upload your cue sheets to us directly.

The Great Forum, News Music Now's flagship forum-based message board, is a great way to talk to other fans of news music about new information, music, trades, and much more. It's simple to create an account: just go to register, fill out the information, and you can immediately start interacting with other forum users. We are trying to drive more traffic to the Great Forum, so if you have a website, we would be honored if you would link to us. If you have any questions, email me, Jordan Montgomery, or post on the Great Forum.

Welcome to the revolutionary new website that will change the way you discover and trade news music packages. Cut Counts Now was started as a spinoff from the extremely popular and leading website, News Music Now. News Music Now helps news music fans by letting them hear a few samples from many different news packages and even some CD samplers. Visitors can donate their own packages or cuts, and after running for over a year, News Music Now has gone from a small start-up site, to a what it is today -- the largest and best site for listening to and enjoying cut samples from many different packages. Users can also have their want lists posted on News Music Now, or request a few specific cuts they are looking for. Cut Counts Now was started to solve the problems of finding the right cut counts for news packages, something that has become a big problem since people started trading them over the Internet in 2000. When ripping packages to computer, its easy for some cuts to accidentally get overlooked and left out of the file, for certain cuts to accidentally get split, or for duplicates to be made to make it seem like there are more cuts.

Computers also bring another problem called bitrate, meaning the sound quality of the file. With postage trading on CDs, this was never a problem because CD quality is 1152Kbps, or perfect audio quality. When packages are ripped at 1152Kbps on the computer though, a single package can easily be well over 1GB! Instead of ripping packages at pure CD quality, many traders decide to rip them at 128Kbps, or standard CD quality, as recognized by the computer. This bitrate is actually substandard CD quality, because true CD quality starts at 320Kbps. Ripping a package at 128Kbps results in an audible loss of of clarity from the original package and some instruments being lost. You probably won't realize this by just listening to the package, but if you compare it to a 320Kbps version, the difference is easily apparent. Scratched CDs can also cause cuts to split when ripped to the computer. If the software hears the track "cut", it could turn it into two tracks when it should be one. Today, there are an average of three versions of every package out there -- there is one correct version, and two others which are accidentally or purposely modified or changed in some way. Our goal was to make sure traders have an easy way to indetify the right number of cuts, discs, and even themes there are in each package.

Cut Counts Now will show you the five Most Popular Packages that traders have, the Most Wanted Package that are not in the trading circulation right now, and the Most Common Packages. This information is updated periodically to keep it updated with current news music trading trends. The information is all accurate, because we get it from what users post on The Great Forum, what is on want and trade lists, and even from veteran traders. In our Information section, we have a page for each of the four big news music companies, and one for all the others. On these pages, we list all the packages the companies make, the numbers of discs, cuts, themes, and special information and descriptions in we have them. We understand that some of our information could be inaccurate, but we have done everything we can to verify that it is correct. If you want to give us corrections, please post in the Cut Counts Now Corrections category on The Great Forum, the link is at the top of the page. Any comments or ideas are appreciated, and we hope you enjoy the website. If you have any questions, please email me before complaining to anyone else. Thanks again for visiting the site, and I thank all of you who have donated your information and reviews -- Cut Counts Now would not be possible without you.

NOTE: GO TO THE REVIEWS PAGE TO SEE WHAT USERS ARE RECOMMENDING OR REVIEWING. JUST EMAIL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHO TO TRADE WITH, OR TO WRITE YOUR OWN REVIEWS.

Cut Counts Now does NOT give away news music, we do NOT "hook up" with other traders, and we do NOT do anything to damage the reputations of news music companies. Short three to ten second musical ID's from packages are the only high quality or any other type audio files you will ever find on this site -- it is totally against our policy to post any other types of audio on this site. We only post ID's to help people or TV stations interested in news music to identify with the signatures of different packages and find out if they want them. It is not possible to use ID's in a productions environment, and even if it was, we condemn anyone who uses them for otherwise. Just because the files are in MP3 format does NOT mean they are longer than ten seconds, and can be used in a real production -- this is just for maximum compatibility with all types of computers and operating systems.

Please feel free to read up on our vast and exclusive infomation, find cut counts you're looking for, and donate your own information or ID's. Leave a message on The Great Forum, or send me additional donations for posting on this website. (For more information on sending files to the site, click to the Contact page at the top of the site.) Also, be sure to use common knowledge if you get tempted to use these files innapropriately.

Out of respect for the companies that compose this good music, please do NOT redistribute the information or ID's on any removable media, use them in a production environment, or on a newscast! The ID's should ONLY be used for personal pleasure and enjoyment. While it is acceptable to play these ID's on a portable CD player or MP3 player with headphones, you MAY NOT legally play them on a public address or sound system. For more information on Cut Count Now's policy, click on the News Music Now Title 17 Disclaimer at the top left of this page. Remember to check back often, as Cut Counts Now is always being updated and in a changing process!