Cool Resource: Royalty Free Music

If you're producing podcasts or delivering any audio content, you can get royalty free music for intros and outros at MusicBakery.com. While the files are not free, there are hundreds of categories and styles to choose from. You can get clips that are only a few seconds up to a few minutes. A 10-15 second clip is $19.99 and is perfect as an intro to your podcast. You can use it over and over so it's not a bad price to pay to spice up and professionalize (is that a word?) your podshows.

UPDATE:

From a reader...

Another outstanding royalty free solution is shockwave-sound.com. Most of the music sounds like it was created by real musicians instead of the canned stuff commonly found in royalty free packages. You can also totally free sound effects and music beds at The Freesound Project http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

Source: Jake Ludington

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Comments

[michael d. pollock]

hey denise - finally managed to get the podcast up. i spent a little extra time creating a new intro it came out great after some trimming as we discussed. enjoy!

lets do it again some time.

best - mp

p.s. http://www.savvysolocast.com

[Tom Kennedy]

We use UniqueTracks for royalty free music.

[Dave Jackson]

Are you sure?

When I sent to sites like soundrangers.com and sounddogs.com they mention if you use it in a broadcast, you have to fill out a cue sheet. It appears "Royalty free" is if you use it in some sort of multimedia presentation. I know you're not a lawyer, but is Podcasting = Broadcasting?

[Denise]

Yes, I'm sure. Another reader asked this question also and then contacted the folks at http://www.MusicBakery.com. Here's his report:

Denise, I've been exchanging emails with Music Bakery (Jack) over the last couple of days. As long as the music is mixed with other audio, they will allow podcasting. So, problem solved!

One note ... despite the holiday weekend, they were incredibly responsive and supportive of my requests throughout the weekend. Hats off to them ... you don't see support like that much anymore.

Thanks!

[Suzy]

I have checked out the sites you mentioned and they seem ok. I have been using http://www.Opuzz.com for quite sometime for commercials and videos. They were recommended by one of my lecturers while I was in college. I understand they are royalty free but don't know if it is for podcasting. So far pretty good service.

[Adam]

Another great royalty free music site is http://www.mediamusicnow.co.uk
Quality music at reasonable prices.

[Loh]

I can confirm that music from http://www.opuzz.com is ok and podsafe for podcasting. Checkout http://podcasting.about.com/od/podsafemusicandeffects/a/opuzzinterview.htm.