If you do a search on "Royalty Free Music" or "Public Domain Music", the search results will give you several sites to explore. Some of the music will be royalty free but there may be a small cost associated with obtaining the music track. In other cases, musical artists may be willing to allow use of their music for free on your website as long as they are credited as the artist. Many of the sites provide the code (.HTML) to install on your website.
Here are some examples a friend of mine used foraccoustic guitar instrumental music. He found a fellow whose music was just what he had in mind. So, he messaged him directly and asked if he could use his music on his website and he granted him permission. He copied the .HTML code from the music site and installed a different selection (along with the widget/logo from the artist's site) on several pages of his website.
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Kathy Stemke
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14 comments:
Kathy, thanks for sharing. Music, especially for book trailers, is important for authors.
Is that link to the artist's site that your friend used?
This is great, Kathy. Thanks much for sharing!
As a music-lover I certainly appreciate this informative post.
Thank You.
This is a great resource! Thanks, Kathy!
Great information.
Martha
Yes Karen, it is the website to the artist my friend used.
Thanks for this Kathy - I haven't read much on how to obtain royalty free music but your tips are great and good music makes such a difference to a video. Some video sites will provide it - Animoto does and so does One True Media, but it's nice to be able to source your own. I have also collaborated with musicians in the past to create videos where the music is as much a part of the art as the words.
Thanks for the reminder, Kathy. A great idea to increase the effectiveness of our book promotions!
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Wow - what an extensive and valuable list of links Kathy. My muse is all in overdrive now thinking about the possibilities. Thank you!
Great information. Thanks for sharing it, Kathy.
You might also try MusicRevolution.com https://www.musicrevolution.com , an innovative online marketplace for royalty-free production music with nearly 17,000 affordable, high-quality tracks. To mark the anniversary of our 2010 launch, MusicRevolution.com has created this page of royalty-free music tracks that are absolutely free to use: http://www.musicrevolution.com/free_production_music/ I am the co-founder.
For freemusic that is under creative commons try JewelBeat.com
under our free music section http://www.jewelbeat.com/free/free-background-music.htm.
Else other tracks are just 99 cents with a license.
For that go to http://www.JewelBeat.com/
Disclaimer: I work with JewelBeat.
Thanks to the musicians who chimmed in. We appreciate learning about other sites.
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