21 New Royalty Free Music Collections
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GoDigital Media Monetizing Royalty Free Music w/o Permission From Composers
Partners In Rhyme and many other royalty free music libraries have been having a lot of problems recently with a situation created by Audiosparx (a royalty free music library) and GoDigital Media Group (monetizes media used in youtube and elsewhere).
Sometime last year GoDigital offered Audiosparx the chance to join their Adshare program. The Adshare program utilizes YouTube’s Audio Match ID feature to monetize any video that has music that matches the audio in GoDigital’s database.
Audiosparx joined the program and submitted 15,000 royalty free music tracks to the GoDigital database. Again, these are royalty free music tracks and Audiosparx and GoDigital were wanting to earn “royalties” off of this music (I still don’t understand the logic behind this at all).
The main problem with this though is that this same music is also being distributed by many other royalty free music libraries throughout the internet and Audiosparx does not have an exclusive agreement with any of the composers involved so when Audiosparx does something with the content that is owned by these composers their actions end up effecting the business and reputations of other royalty free music companies.
So, in October, Partners In Rhyme and other music libraries started receiving customer complaints that videos that included legally purchased music were being tagged in their YouTube account as possibly containing copyrighted material owned by GoDigital Media. The videos would then be monetized by GoDigital with Adsense ads and the owner of the video would be denied the right to monetize the videos themselves with their own ads.
Partners In Rhyme had to hire lawyers and send a registered letter simply to find out what was going on but we were finally told that Audiosparx had submitted this music into the GoDigital database.
We checked with our composers who also had material in the Audiosparx library and they had never heard of GoDigital and had no idea their music had been placed into this system and they confirmed that they had not given expressed permission to have their music placed in the GoDigital system.
We made GoDigital and Audiosparx aware of the mistake they had made and Audiosparx apologized and withdrew from the Adshare program.
GoDigital however still has much of the content in their system and is still earning revenue off of content that they have no permission to have in their database.
They say they are trying to remove the content but it is somehow YouTube’s fault now and they are not able to delete the content from their end for some reason.
I am simply posting this explanation so our customers are aware that the problem is being dealt with and to contact Partners In Rhyme (or any other music library that you have purchased royalty free music from) to get GoDigital’s false ownership notices removed from your YouTube videos should they appear.
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by admin | View Comments93 Free Music Clips for Podcasting
Found this page today offering 93 free music clips available for use in podcasts (and I imagine other non-broadcast type uses) on the Indiana University website.
The quality of the clips is questionable, very Garageband sounding, but there are quite few gems in there if you look hard enough
Download 93 Free Music Clips for Podcasts
Some of the tracks I like are the Indian flavored ones like this;
Lone Rider
Some of the funky guitar tracks are interesting as well;
Wow Wow
Free Music Clips from Vlad Rebek
I found another pretty cool site with free royalty free music clips today.
It is run by musical composer/enthusiast and experimentalist Vlad Rebek and he is offering a collection of his tracks for “joy or for profit, or both”.
You can take a look at his complete terms here
And you can preview and download his music starting here by click on the categories in the left hand menu.
And don’t forget to check out the free royalty free music clips at Partners In Rhyme if you haven’t done so already.
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by admin | View CommentsFree iMovie Plugins and Downloads
I just updated our Free iMovie plugins page on partnersinrhyme.com here:
Free iMovie Plugins and Mac Software Downloads
I hadn’t realized how popular the page was until people started contacting me with lots of questions. On the new page I explain the problem with using effects plugins in newer version of iMovie (’08 and ’08) and a solution for Mac users who still want to use effects plugins and newer version of iMovie.
GoDigital Media Monetizing Music Without Composer’s Permission
I just want to notify our customers and composers that the GoDigital problem that we took care of with Audiosparx.com (monetizing Youtube videos that contain music legally licensed from Partners In Rhyme) is happening once again with another royalty free music library, this time it is Audiomicro.com.
The problem appears to be effecting us to a much lesser extent than the Audiosparx.com problem but still we currently have about 7 loyal clients that Audiomicro’s actions have impacted very negatively. We are sending the customer complaints to our lawyers so that he can put together a case of “Tortious Interference with Business Relations”.
Partners In Rhyme is very tired of dealing with the customer problems caused by GoDigital Media and the chasing down of Youtube videos to remove false GoDigital claims so we are now blocking all composers who have their music in the Audiomicro.com catalog from any further sales or access to their PIR or musicloops accounts.
We are also no longer accepting any composer submissions from composers who have or have had music entered into the Audiomicro.com database.
It is regretful that GoDigital is promoting the Youtube contentID system as a royalty payment system to royalty free music libraries when it is only a system to monetize *illegal* uses of music, not legal ones.
I deeply apologize to the percentage of our loyal Youtube customers who have come to rely on our music catalog to use in their business promotions and projects but the actions of other companies are completely out of our control.
Also, please rest assured that you do have the legal right to use the music you purchased from Partners In Rhyme and we will do everything we can for our customers that have Youtube videos being illegally monetized by GoDigital to get their false claims removed as quickly as possible.
Regards,
Mark Lewis
Partners In Rhyme
Download 200 Free iPhone Ringtones (no strings attached)
We created these ringtones specifically for our iPhones so that we could have something other than the stock ringtones or the latest iTunes hip hop track blaring out of our iPhones when someone calls us.
To be honest we tried to figure out how to sell these ringtones to iPhone users but it is just too much of a hassle and we’re busy with lots of other stuff so we thought we’d give them away.
No strings attached.
A collection of 200 unique, different, hip and cool iPhone ringtones for you to drop right into the ringtone area of your iTunes program and then synch up your iPhone to load them in.
Once your iPhone is synched up go to settings and choose a new ringtone.
There’s something for everybody here to check it out.
200 Free iPhone RIngtones.zip 13megs
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by admin | View CommentsIntroducing the Partners In Rhyme Programmers
Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the Partners In Rhyme programming team at Harvest Technologies.
We’ve come to rely on Guru and the team to realize all of our ideas and help update our websites and keep things running smoothly. Whenever we receive a feature request from our clients (which we do quite often) we immediately contact Guru and see if we can implement the idea.
We’re particularly proud of our latest website at http://www.naturemusicdownload.com/ which the guys did a great job from design and functionality to coding and implementation.
Also notice the Partners In Rhyme T-Shirts the guys are wearing in this photo.
Thanks a lot to Guru and Harvest Technologies and look forward to realizing more of our ideas with you and the team.
Posted on November 14th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsFree Royalty Free Music from Jaybot7
I came across this collection of 25 free royalty free music tracks from Jaybot7. They are fun tracks in a variety of styles with some pretty good guitar playing on some of them.
These tracks are available to download and use in personal and commercial projects completely royalty free. The composer only asks for a credit
25 Free Royalty Free Music Tracks
Here are the “small details” Jabot7 has posted in regards to using his music:
Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsSmall details: The only thing I ask if you use one of the following tracks is that you shoot me an email using the contact page, and give Credit to Jaybot7 LLC somewhere in the project.
Yes, you can absolutely use this in a commercial project (the kind that you charge money for). No, you don’t have to pay me anything. Just make sure you contact me and give me credit somewhere as stated above. The only thing you can’t do with these Royalty Free tracks is re-license or sub-license them (meaning, you can’t simply download them and start selling them as your own).
Free VFX Elements from Final Light
A friend of mine sent me a link to Finalight.com which is a new website that sells VFX stock footage. For those of you that may not be familiar with the term VFX is short for ‘visual effects’ and is used to describe all the computer generated effects you see in films these days.
Finalight.com sells elements like smoke, fire, shockwaves and explosions that you can use to add to your video or film project. You need basic compositing knowledge to add the effects to your project but the guys at Finallight have made it pretty easy by providing masks and well-filmed or computer generated elements.
They have three elements available on their site here
http://www.finalight.com/-/maindir/webpages/STHANKS.php
So you can test them out to see if you want to purchase anything from their library.
I purchased a flame effect and added it to a quick VFX test I am working. Take a look here
Add Audio to Your Web Page / Blog (free and easy)
Adding audio to your website or blog post isn’t always as simple as it sounds. I put together a quick tutorial using my favorite little plug ‘n’ play flash embed code for adding a nice looking audio to player to a web page or blog post.
Here is an example of the player:
Instructions:
1. Upload the music to your server in MP3 format. If the MP3 file exists on a server somewhere else you just need to grab the URL of that file (but remember if the owners of the server change the location of that file your embedded music will no longer work).
2. Copy the URL, it will look something like this
http://www.royaltyfreemusicclips.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/waiting-mix067.mp3
3. Copy the code below and save it somewhere on your computer so you have easy access to it
4. Where you see MP3_FILE_URL in the code above replace that with your URL, so your code would now look something like this
5. Now paste the result into your blog post or web page and you will get a nice looking flash player for your audio file.
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsReddit Conversation re: Performing Rights Organizations
There’s a very funny and very informative conversation going on regarding performing rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and in this case PRS going after people singing to themselves at work (?!?!?).
Check it out if you have a moment, it’s pretty enlightening;
this_is_getting_ridiculous_now_recording_industry
This comes as ASCAP loses their battle to charge mobile phone users every time their phone rings calling their ringtones a “public performance”.
Judge: No Royalties for Music Industry Each Time a Ringtone Plays
Top 10 Selling Tracks on Musicloops.com for September
Here are the top-ten selling royalty free music tracks from www.musicloops.com for September 2009.
There’s some pretty cool stuff here:
1 Supercritical_Supercilious by Michele Vanni
2 HighLights by Dan Phillipson
3 Hope For More by Dan Phillipson
4 Live Wire by Bjorn Lynne
5 Lift Me Up by Bjorn Lynne
6 Fashion Groove by Michael Cymbalista
7 Les Pieds by Felipe Vassão
8 We Are Loud by PIR
9 Mataleon by Roberto Feltracco
10 Starting Lineup by Mark Petrie
Posted on October 6th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsMusic and Sound Effects for Halloween
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Download 9 Public Domain John Philip Sousa Music Tracks
Partners In Rhyme is offering this collection of 9 tracks composed by the famous John Philip Sousa. These tracks were recorded by the US Army Band and are all available in the public domain to download and duplicate.
If you need more royalty free classical music please visit our classical music website at Royalty Classical Music to download and license classical music recorded by a real symphony orchestra.
Washington Post March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
The Gladiator: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Stars and Stripes Forever: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Jack Tar March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Semper Fidelis: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Hands Across The Sea: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Adjutant’s Call Washington Post: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Pride of the Wolverines: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
Honors March: John Philip Sousa
to download right-click (control-click on a mac) on the link above and choose ‘save target as’ from the menu that pops up. Listen to the preview below.
We also have a huge collection of some of the most famous classical music pieces ever recorded available on the Partners In Rhyme site at Apollo Symphony Orchestra: Greatest Hits.
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsMore Free Video Background Loops: Romantic and Corporate
We have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 12 romantic video loops with lots of hearts and flowers plus 10 corporate video background loops with lots of charts, globes and team building images.
They are available in full rez and in both NTSC and PAL formats. You can use these video loops as backgrounds in your personal and commercial projects completely free of charge (you are not allowed to repost, redistribute or resell these clips without syncing them into your own projects first).
Street Fight Simulator for the iPhone
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Sound design your fake street fights with Punch ‘n’ Stab Have fun with your friends and frighten complete strangers with these powerful sounding punches and super-gory sounding knife wounds. Simply hold your iPhone sideways with the screen up and thrust forward to trigger the power punch sound effect. The punch and stab sounds alone are pretty cool but what is a good street fight without some great action music? You get: ’70′s Cop Show’ for that Starsky and Hutch type TV drama ‘Mission Incredible’ for that super-spy action movie vibe ‘Heavy Rock Action’ soundtrack for all you metal-heads out there. We’ll be adding more functionality and music choices in future upgrades. |
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More Free Royalty Free Music Clips
Besides all of the free royalty free music we give away for personal and commercial use here
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml
we also like to point you to other websites and blogs that offer free royalty free music. Here are three composers that I ran across today:
Taylor Howard
http://www.taylorhayward.org/recordings.htm
Some very nice ambient / classical piano recordings from Taylor Howard with wide-open, copyright-free terms for use:
“The music on this site is: free to download and play, free to rebroadcast in any form for any purpose, free to play in public, free to publish for profit, and free to sample.
There is no copyright on this music.
If you can think of a creative way to use this music, you have my full support.”
Bill Cushman
http://ghostnotes.blogspot.com/
This talented is offering his beautiful piano pieces for free use in personal and commercial project. You need to contact the composer before using music.
Derek Audette
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php
A collection of free royalty free music from Derek Audette. Although most of the tracks are very midi sounding there are some interesting and usable pieces here:
“There is no charge or licensing fees associated with the use of any of these songs for any reason. I only ask that if you use them in a production in which you are able to give credit, (such as closing credits in a video or film production) that you do provide the proper credit in your production. ”
Posted on June 7th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsPump Audio Demands (A lot) More Money From Their Composers
Pump Audio has sent out the notice posted below to all of their contributors.
It basically says that from now on their split will be 35% to the artists and 65% to Getty Images.
It would be surprising if this was a Pump Audio decision but it is definitely not surprising that this is a Getty Images decision. Getty Images along with Jupiter Images are pretty ruthless in how they treat their composers. And their composers are the ones who make their business models profitable.
Dear Pump Audio Artist,
We would like to thank you for your music and congratulate you on being part of one of the fastest growing music licensing companies in the world. Since the acquisition of Pump Audio by Getty Images, we continue to hear praises from a wide expansion of our clients on the depth and quality of our catalog and that is a testament to you.
As we plan for the future growth of our offering to the global music licensing client base, we have determined that to fully support the 400+ person Getty Images sales staff and invest in marketing and technology needs that we must make adjustments to the current revenue split system. By making these changes, we intend to accelerate the pace of our growth and achieve our goal of becoming the largest music licensor in the world.
The new model will be as following:
1) Licensing fees will now be 35% to the artist, 65% to Pump Audio/Getty Images
2) This change will take place as of July 1, 2009. Any royalties payable through June 30, 2009 will not be affected by this change
3) Performance royalty splits will remain at 50% of the publisher’s share
4) Those that don’t accept the new split will have their music removed from the system no later than December 31, 2009.
5) The rights you granted to us in the original contract do not change
If you have any questions, please email artistrelations@pumpaudio.com.
Please sign the enclosed amendment and send back to Artist Relations.
I have been reading about this development on blogs like the themusicsnob.com here
Pump Audio Reduces Music Licensing Payments
There are lots of comments regarding this move by Getty and Pump Audio, most of them bad, things like;
“That’s defaulting on the contract. If they have a signed agreement with me that states 50/50 and they decide to make changes to the split, they need to have a new contract signed with that agreement, which I will not do, and if they default on my contract and change the terms without my written consent, I will sue them.”
and;
“You have to really stay on top of things with Pump/Getty and I will definitely be looking for alternatives. Just when I was thinking they were cool it turns out to be another artist-leaching corporation”
I’d also like to quote Scott Hallgren, Owner/composer/producer at Scootman Music Productions http://www.scootmanmusic.com
Scott has contacted his rep at Pump Audio with some direct questions and received these as replies
1. Nacia at Pump couldn’t promise me the problems they’ve been having reconciling all of their databases (including, among other things: incorrect contact, PRO, and direct deposit info) are going to be fixed anytime soon. Even with all the new bodies, notice none are dedicated to admin…
2. She also informed me that Pump would now be giving their ‘clients’ UP TO A YEAR to report usage. Not pay, just report! So an artist could conceivably be waiting for 2+ years for payment if the bi-annual reporting didn’t fall in one’s favor.
3. I’ve also learned from another source that Pump are 15 months behind in registering their PRO info.
Scott goes on to say:
I have music in the PumpBox and have gotten a placement, but after this and the forced addition of our content to iStockPhoto.com (without receiving the benefits that people who joined iStock of their own volition, natch), I’m beginning to wonder if I need to ‘beat feet’ and let my participation die a natural death…
I think one of the reasons behind the success of Partners In Rhyme and www.musicloops.com and www.sound-effect.com is that we are a company run by musicians, first and foremost we think of our musicians above all else because we know first-hand what it is like to try to make a living at composing music.
It is difficult in that musicians are just that, musicians, they do not have MBAs or degrees in marketing and promotion and they are often times completely socially inept. To expect a musician to spend his/her days producing creative work and then ask them to also handle all the business dealings plus the marketing, self promotion, accounting, etc, etc. is a really big ask.
At Partners In Rhyme we are trying to make a place where musicians just have to create, we take of the rest and send them a nice paycheck every month. I can promise you we will never turn “corporate” (even though we are incorporated) and we will always be on the side of the little guy.
50/50 Forever! 
So how do you feel about this new development at Pump Audio?
Do you have music in their library and are you going to keep it there?
Are you also looking for alternatives like these other Pump Audio composers?
Tell us your feelings and what your plans are. It might help other composers figure out their own way forward.
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by admin | View CommentsGUNS! New Sound Effect iPhone App
| GUNS! new sound effect iphone app GUNS! is a collection of 24 different gun sounds including shotguns, machine guns, pistols and rifles from Partners In Rhyme and Lynne Publishing. The sounds are available via buttons on four separate panels and includes loading and racking weapon sounds giving you the ability to play a variety of sounds at the same time without having to scroll through a long list just to change sounds. These sounds were professionally recorded and are being made available from the Partners In Rhyme sound effects catalog (http://www.sound-effect.com/). The sounds available in the Guns Sounds application are listed below. Machine Guns Shotguns Rifles Pistols |
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New Preview Player on Partners In Rhyme
The New PIR Preview Player
Last month we announced our new preview player for the musicloops.com site and this month we have a new preview player for the Partners In Rhyme royalty free music collections site. This new preview player was also created to address customer requests and complaints from the previous player.
The new features include:
1. The new player looks really cool and is much easier to use.
2. There is now a volume control
3. You can turn looping on and off next to the volume control
4. The length of the file playing is now shown in the upper panel
5. Total amount of files, full length tracks, edits and loops are listed.
6. Play, stop, pause and scrub controls have been added.
Check it out here:
Feel Good Music Vol 1
Sonic 4: Disco, Hip Hop, Electro…
Groove Salad Vol 5
Most of the product pages are updated with the new player and we are still waiting one one update to fix the listing bug so that everything lists alphabetically instead of randomly.
Posted on March 29th, 2009 by admin | View Comments4 Public Domain Gregorian Chants for Download
Here are four public domain Gregorian Chant music clips for you to download and use in absolutely whatever way you want. Public domain means no one owns it, it means you can just use it with no restrictions. These are pretty good quality clips too.
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical chant in Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. This vast repertory of chants is the oldest music known as it is the first repertory to have been adequately notated in the 10th century.
Gregorian Chant 1 (right-click on this link to download)
Gregorian Chant 2 (right-click on this link to download)
Gregorian Chant 3 (right-click on this link to download)
Gregorian Chant 4 (right-click on this link to download)
If you need a bigger variety of royalty free classical music for your project check out the Apollo Symphony Orchestra: Greatest Hits collection of 50 of the most recognizable classical music tracks available for use in your commercial projects.
The collection above comes with a free download of 25 royalty free Tchaikovsky classical pieces.
For an even bigger variety of royalty free classical music check out the Royalty Free Classical Music section of musicloops.com.
Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by admin | View CommentsMy New Guitar
Check it out. I’ve been passing this guitar in the window of Guitarland, the guitar shop just down the street from where I live, for about a month now.
I finally justified buying it and MonaoLia says if I get it I have to create a new collection of guitar music to put out on Partners In Rhyme in the next 20 months.
Sounds like a fun challenge.
Sparrow Flame Burst Gretsch Style
Copyright Free Music Clips from Josh Levine
Besides our collection of free royalty free music available for commercial use here:
Free Royalty Free Music, here is a collection of “Copyright Free” music clips from Josh Levine available free for any type of use as long as you credit. I doubt they are actually “copyright free” as that would mean that Josh no longer owns them and he would not be able to request a credit for them. I’m pretty sure he means “royalty free”.
There are 19 tracks in this collection of varying quality. With titles like “One Hour Garageband Tune #1″ you might get an idea of how they were recorded.
Worth checking out though:
http://www.century22.org/mp3/
Free Scary Halloween Sound Effects
I created a new Horror / Scary / Halloween free sound effects page on the main Partners In Rhyme site. It has genres in the free area like Horror Ambience, Torture Chamber, Haunted House plus Screams, Wicked Laughs, Ghosts and Monsters. All free and ready for you to download.
Click Here For Scary Halloween Sounds
For my blog readers I am making available the Birds in an Abandoned Warehouse sound effect for free to use in your personal and commercial projects.
birds_abandoned_warehouse
(right-click on the link above to download)
We also have a nice Scary Sound Effects Collection available in the Partners In Rhyme store.
And of course we have have a great collection of Horror Music that is perfect for any scary horror film available in the Horror / Suspense genre on Musicloops.com.
Posted on March 8th, 2009 by admin | View Comments
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