Found it Ronald Jenkees - Throwing Fire http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091114153007AA0F8pk
Another site I found recently and have just used in a project is http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/ who do have a series of tracks available under Creative Commons By-nc (By Attribution Non Commercial). Quite liked "Lullaby" in particular by Psychadelik Pedestrian on this site. Edit: You can now see the film I made with this track here:
Hey everyone, I found this website, it is great!! www.freemusicarchive.org Hopefully it has not already been mentioned.. but it was not on the main post so I thought it could use a mention
Out of interest, that is the site that is behind Vimeo's Creative Commons music library (www.vimeo.com/music) available via their "Music Store" (and note they don't charge for the Creative Commons music - only the royalty free music that also comes through the same outlet).
Hey guys, just wanted to give you another music resource. It's a site called Stereobot— www.stereobot.com— from the same folks who created Soundsnap.com, which you may be familiar with. Admittedly I be a bit biased, as I work for the site, but I think it's pretty great. We’ve spent quite some time making the site not only aesthetically pleasing, from a design standpoint, but also a useful functioning tool. You can also check out the press release here— http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/10/prweb10048289.htm Hope this helps.
I do not mind you posting this the music is good, but I think the prices are a bit high for small filmmakers that do this as a hobby. I think 99 cents would be much better.
I think free would be better, I always make my own music or find FREE commercial free stuff. Anything above $0.00 is too much for me right now.
Free is nice but if someone wants to charge I do not have a problem with it. If you put in the work then it's a honest way to make a living. I just wish the prices of the songs would be 99 cents.
I'm sure your clients would like their videos for 99c or even for free... But I guess you got to pay for all you kit and feed yourself, right? Same applies to the people making music. Might be worth remembering that...
First of your being a really rude. If you took the time to read my post before your ingornat remark you would know I only do this as a hobby. Price has nothing to do with quality when it comes to music or videos or software. Here is some of the best royalty free on the net. http://incompetech.com/ http://www.music4yourvids.co.uk/ Might be a good idea to read the full post before commenting. Might be worth remembering that... 99 cents business model has been super successful with iTunes and there is a reason for that.
Touched a nerve? Was my comment directed at you specifically? No. The last few posts have all been about wanting free music. I was mealy pointing out the musicians also deserve to be paid for the work they do. You don't expect you batteries and memory cards for free do you? Even tho this is just a hobby form you...
PremiumBeat.com - some incredibly great music, especially the 'loops' versions so one can extend and contract a music bed to the correct length, and hit the musical mood with your edit. I think this thread could go 'sticky'... But prickly comments change the tone. Some of us here are making our art finally, after being excluded from the table by budgets and costs. Have camera, will make movies - job done. Some of us here are making corporate movies which make money to feed our families - it's like gardening, some amazing gardens made through sheer love, other gardens made because that's what we get paid to do. Music makers may want to give their creations to people who make stuff for love, not money. However, if the user of the music is making money, why shouldn't the music maker make some too? Therefore, some music sources recognise that whilst we may not make millions, or even thousands, from our work, £50-£100 is a proportionate share of their involvement in our project. If our projects were breakfasts, we're the pigs who commit to bacon, they're the chickens who contribute eggs. In the UK, we have the PRS and MCPS who have milked us for ages charging the bare minimum of £35 per 30 seconds of music just for the right to edit it in to our movies. Our corporate movies finally had a 'buy-out' of around £300-500 for all music, and even then this was enough to wipe out the margin on many productions. Thank goodness independent corporate labels like AKM understood the swelling market underneath the TV and Film world. iStockPhoto and RevoStock jumped in, SoundCloud made it possible for video producers to talk direct to music producers and negotiate rates, and things are getting so much better now (see the cornucopia of links in this thread). Free is nice, but I think free music is for free films where the credit goes to the creators. If money comes in from freeness, how does the split go? Again, remember the pig and chicken - one commits, one contributes. Entrepreneurs don't get salaries, risk takers get the lions share of anything. Music makers can charge less per use than video makers, but they have to be given the chance to make something. If I make a 'how-to' movie that gives good karma, then want to enhance it with a bit of music, how would I reward the music contributor? With a pint of beer? With beers & pizza? A meal out? A 'Dinner for two' voucher? On the other hand, is their composition in any way devalued by being on my little movie? They made it, it's out there, it's great, thousands will probably use that, do I want to shell out £50-£500 on my own project that won't earn anything? But if I have a client, how much will they pay me to find the music track and how much can I pay the musician that's in-budget enough to make the deal?
Yes your comment was directed to me when you quoted "I'm sure your clients would like their videos for 99c or even for free... But I guess you got to pay for all you kit and feed yourself, right?" It was me who said 99 cents for a song would be a good price.
And HarrisonHoude wanted Free music in the post above yours. So my comment was not specific to you but as a general comment about paying for music. I'm all for the hobbiest making art but you can't expect musicians to spend hours producing music so that you can benefit from it. If you want free music why not collaborate with a musician. Then the end product is of benefit to you both. You get something unique and the musician does not feel ripped off. Just my opinion.
Again your missing my point. I'm saying 99 cents is a better price to get people to buy your music. Its the same when people are not willing to buy a PS3 at 600 dollars but are willing to buy a PS3 at 300 dollars. There is a reason why iTunes is the number one song seller and its because all songs are 99 cents. When the record companies want to start charging $1.99 for a song Steve Jobs said no 99 cents is a better price tag.
Not missing your point at all. iTunes sell tracks for 99c for personal listening (not for sharing or broadcast). That means everyone who wants to listen to the music pays 99c. A pretty big audience out there. You want to pay 99c to use a track for your film that is then shared and broadcast on YouTube/Vimeo/etc. Film makers are a much smaller audience but all those people who then watch your film and listen to the music don't pay anything. So the economics of your argument are flawed. Producing and selling music for film/video use has a much smaller market so the returns are lower. You would be selling less copies, probably less than 1% compared to music aimed at general consumers, so the price is gonna be higher. Same as an Alexa costs way more than a T2i. It's not the parts that impact the cost but the difference in volumes need to recoup the R&D. It's unfair to expect producers to sell their music on the cheap because you are on a budget. That is why there are sites that sell music licenses for film makers and why those licenses cost more than 99c. There are loads of free resources. Use them.
Your still missing the point there are tons of small filmmakers and there is a reason why they use royalty free it because its all they can afford. Take all those YouTube filmmakers and drop the price down to 99 cents they might start buying other music then using the same free music in all their videos.
Hi guys, Take a look at this directory: Safe Music List Directory - Directory of safe and legal music resources for filmmakers, video producers, and game developers (in their own words). The site is still new but new links are added daily. Some categories are: Royalty-Free Libraries, Free Music, Broadcast Music Libraries, and so on. And here comes a shameless plug.. feel free to listen to some of my music
