OT Anyone hear of this kind of site ?

Stonefield wrote on 6/22/2006, 6:59 PM
I was talkin to a guy a couple weeks ago and I told him about my problem about finding some royalty free music for use in a project of mine. He mentioned something about a website where up and coming artist upload their music for just such a purpose. Their stuff can knowingly be used royalty free and in exchange they get the exposure.

Sounds like a good idea to me, but for the life of me I can't recall what the site is....any ideas ?

Stan

For what it's worth, my client requested some rock music in the Green Day/ Coldplay genre. That's what I'm looking for. Just one uptempo rock song in that style.

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craftech wrote on 6/22/2006, 7:08 PM
Stan,
I am not sure if this is the website in question, but it is called the Live Music Archive. Many
of these are very high quality downloads especially those in the FLAC format.

Lots of up and coming band's recordings there. You had better read the terms of usage for each one though.

John
bStro wrote on 6/22/2006, 7:10 PM
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ ?

Rob
farss wrote on 6/22/2006, 7:20 PM
Free Play is anything BUt free. They provide an excellent service and their product under some circumstances is 'free' but they still get their money. Basically you can use it for free (maybe) but they get the dollars everytime your production goes to air.

For non broadcast use you must pay but the fees are realistic.

Bob.
Stonefield wrote on 6/22/2006, 7:21 PM
Checked out freeplay, but my use falls under the category of a fee. It's an internal promo video for a brewry company.

Good stuff on Freeplay though......there ARE some free music samples on there, just as long as you don't use it for anything online........nice.

....still lookin
farss wrote on 6/23/2006, 1:31 AM
Don't be afraid to ask Freeplay for a quote, the one I got was very reasonable and the transaction pretty painless.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 6/23/2006, 4:45 AM

Stan, that may have been me. I referred you, or someone, to Versus Media. Sounds like that's what you're looking for at any rate.


JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/23/2006, 7:08 AM
> Don't be afraid to ask Freeplay for a quote, the one I got was very reasonable and the transaction pretty painless.

I asked them for a quote for music to be used in a graduation video with only 25 copies being made. They quoted me $25 per song. I needed 5 songs for the whole video so it would have cost me $125 for the music. In the end I wound up making my own music in ACID and using that but it gives you an idea of what they charge.

~jr