Video Background Music sites

tedw123 · Jan 20, 2014

I'm new to creating video scene and although I'm sure there are thousands of sites that have background music, what are some of the good ones?

hovikg · Jan 20, 2014

Look here for some ideas...

http://fstoppers.com/bookmark-the-best- ... eo-editors

jadebox · Jan 20, 2014

tedw123 said:
I'm new to creating video scene and although I'm sure there are thousands of sites that have background music, what are some of the good ones?

One of my favorites is Incompetech at:

http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

The site offers a large number of royalty-free tracks which you can use for free. All that's required is that you give the composer a credit in your video.

I've also purchased royalty-free tracks from a few sources including The Music Bakery at:

http://musicbakery.com/

-- Roger

CouesWhitetail · Jan 20, 2014

Incompetech.com has the best royalty-free music there is online!

Premiumbeat.com is a good site for buying music.

Bunger · Jan 21, 2014

Great links... Thanks for posting!

madirect · Jan 21, 2014

Incompetech.com is good.

Jre · Jan 22, 2014

Incompetech. Terrible name.

"Song Title" Composer (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Does all of this need to be an actual part of your rendered video, or can it just be in the video description wherever it's posted?

CouesWhitetail · Jan 22, 2014

Jre said:
Incompetech. Terrible name.

"Song Title" Composer (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Does all of this need to be an actual part of your rendered video, or can it just be in the video description wherever it's posted?

I have discussed this with Kevin MacLeod (the composer at incompetech.com) and he actually prefers that the attribution to his work be in the description because it is searchable. I used to always make a credit screen for him in my videos, but he says he prefers it in the description. Of course you could do both to give him even more credit and promotion.

Wodaddy · Jan 22, 2014

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

jadebox · Nov 3, 2014

Jre said:
Incompetech. Terrible name.

"Song Title" Composer (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Does all of this need to be an actual part of your rendered video, or can it just be in the video description wherever it's posted?

All you need in the credit is "Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)" where "Title" is the name of the piece.

See: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/faq.html

-- Roger

jtfarabee · Nov 4, 2014

I use themusicbed.com quite a bit, they have some great songs for purchase. Licenses are $79 per song for non-commercial use.

badbrad97 · Nov 5, 2014

If you are looking for music to put into a video for YouTube and not going to be too widely viewed or on a large network you can look for remixes on YouTube like TrapMusicHDTV. They mix them up so bad that they do not get tagged as third party content. They are usually more hip hop stuff. If you have a client that wants that kind of thing, sometimes it is hard to find.