Royalty Free Music

[Dorkmaster]

My sister is doing a project to set up her own crafts store and we are making promotional videos to be placed on youtube. The problem is that we need to use some music for the background and we are trying to find some royalty free music. It seems as though even royalty free music costs a significant amount to use for commercial purposes. Does anyone have any experience or any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

[DownInFlames]

I would start here.

http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

Vimeo has started selling music for video. I think their prices are reasonable.

https://vimeo.com/musicstore

[BloodFetish]

The other day I found this site: http://www.jamendo.com/en

I did an advanced search and specified the Attributed license (a.k.a CC BY), which means all I need to do is credit the author. Found some cool stuff, too!

[To Be Quite Honest]

If only you knew of someone who actually produces videos for a living...

/ shameless self promotion

[ericschand]

Well, there are some symphonies available.

http://musopen.org/music/by/performe...hony-Orchestra

I believe all is free to use, plus you can donate. They use the money to hire orchestras to play the music.

ers

[surferguy]

Search for Kevin Macleod

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by BloodFetish

The other day I found this site: http://www.jamendo.com/en

I did an advanced search and specified the Attributed license (a.k.a CC BY), which means all I need to do is credit the author. Found some cool stuff, too!

I have actually found quite a few good albums on Jamendo and recommended them to a few students doing this type of thing.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Search for Kevin Macleod

I just came here to post the same thing. He's not my favorite but his price is right.

http://incompetech.com/

[JiriHrdina]

www.istockphoto.com.

[homestand]

Lots of free music here

http://archive.org/details/audio_music