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About admin

My name is Mark Lewis. I own a few popular royalty free content websites. I have been helping musicians distribute their music for over 17 years now and wanted to use this forum to share thoughts and experiences and hopefully spark some discussion in regards to the distribution of royalty free music and royalty free content in general.

Royalty Free Music Discounts, Deals and Freebies

We’ve made it super easy to see all of our deals, discounts and specials in one place so you don’t have to search through the entire site to find bargains on royalty free music and sound effects.
We will be updating this every month with new specials.
The really cool special this month is the ‘Stimulus Package’ with two royalty free music and sound effects collections available for free download with every purchase.

The Royalty Free Stimulus Package
To do our part to help stimulate the economy by giving entrepreneurs as much music as possible for free to create their new products and venture out on their new endeavors we are giving away two royalty free music and sound effects collections with every purchase.

Royalty Free Stimulus Package
Free Download Of
Multi Media Music Vol 1 &
Web Designer’s Collection
with any royalty free music or sfx purchase


On all orders we have a 10% and 20% discount that is applied automatically to the shopping cart as you shop. Once you hit $200 in your shopping cart you will see the 10% discount kick in and once you get above $400 you see the very substantial 20% discount get subtracted from your grand total.


As if four DVDs of incredible film music weren’t enough we’ve recently added the royalty free film music collection Hollywood Soundtracks Vol 1 to the mix for absolutely free.

Our hugely popular collection of 50 of the most recognizable royalty free classical music tracks has just gotten more propular with the addition of 25 classic Tchaikovsky peices for absolutley no charge.
Just download and use them.
Check out Appollo Symphony Orchestra: Greatest Hits and listen to the 25 beautiful Tchaikovsky tracks that you can download for free.

Richard Quest Remix (Deep Hypnotic State)


We’re big fans of Richard Quest and have been twittering with him since he began his show on CCN called ‘Quest Means Business’. The show is cool because he twitters while he is on air.
His voice is of course great for a remix.
(
Monalia is playing Melodica and piano)



If you want to download the MP3 you can find it here http://tr.im/gCN5

Ha! Got the twitter stamp of approval from Richard himself!

RQ Tweet

And now we got a really nice write-up on the CNN blog promoting the track:

Making Music While the Economy Burns

Check out our recent Christian Bale Techno Tirade Remix as well (due to very explicit language this remix is rated NSFW, not safe for work).

Free Royalty Free Music CLips: Pads and Beds

Here is the lastest in the series of free royalty free music clips. A bunch of looping pads and beds for you to download and use in your personal or commercial projects.

The preview is MP3 and the corresponding WAV file is the link below. It needs to be WAV to loops properly as the conversion to MP3 destroys to loop edit by adding blank audio to head and tail.

Waiting (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

This Way Comes (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Sneaky Pete (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Snappy Hi (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Rhythmic Ship (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Night Howls (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

News Flash (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Marimba Mix (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Magic Bell (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

Freedom (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)


Frantic (right-click here download this free royalty free music clip)

12 Websites Where Musicians Can Pitch Their Music to Producers


There are lots of royalty free music sites out there to submit your music to but there are more and more sites appearing that actually pitch your music to certain projects and producers for free or for a fee. There are also a few crowd-sourcing / collaboration type sites here.
These sites are distinctly different from the free-for-all type sites like productiontrax, audiojungle and audiosparx and might be an interesting addition to your search for outlets for your production music.

1. Humtoo.com
http://www.humtoo.com/

A global meeting place for music makers and content creators. This site is pretty cool as it is free to signup and submit your music to videos and project descriptions.

2. Film Music.net
http://www.filmmusic.net/
Paid monthly subscription to submit music to be considered

  Immediate Access to our Film/TV Music Jobs Database
Access to Film Music Network Live! 24 hr/day streaming audio of Film Music Network events
Immediate Access to our Film & TV Music Salary & Rate Survey
Full benefits and discounts at all participating Film Music Network Vendor Partners.

3. The Composer Collective
http://www.thecomposercollective.com/tcc/composersignup.asp

The Composer Collective is comprised of cinematic composers dedicated to creating dramatic scores of the highest quality for film, television, interactive and commercial media. We group composers into innovative and productive workforces, giving the film industry a much-needed resource for intelligent music at never-before-seen productivity levels. This service is known as TeamScore™.

Choosing TeamScore™ puts you on the front lines of the film business as it changes and adapts rapidly to the demands of distributors and consumers worldwide.

4. Taxi.net
https://www.taxi.com/join/?88.7.207.46.6651122970743537
Paid yearly subscription is $299.95

http://www.taxi.com/abouts/join-whatyoullget.html
More than 1,200 opportunities per year to pitch your music to Major and Indie Record Labels, Top Music Publishers, and Music Supervisors working on film and TV projects. That’s TEN TIMES the number of opportunities you’ll get with TAXI imitators! And don’t forget, we have opportunities in nearly every conceivable genre of music.

5. Broadjam
http://www.broadjam.com/delivery/index.php?sessionID=q4qqrqkt2vc05bi4s15palahj1
offers an ‘opportunities’ service for $5-$10 per sbmission depending on what type a paid account you have

a broadjam member to enter opportunities. sign up today. you’ll also get other services designed to help independent musicians like you, promote themselves.

6. Studentfilms.com Forum
http://forums.studentfilms.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/6156029451

Jobs posted for composers and composer submitting their resumes and profiles. Free to register.
Lots of posts like ‘Composer Needed’ and ‘Composer Available’.

7. Soundreef (beta)
http://www.soundreef.com/private_beta/promoterPage?o=13

Swap music for promotion? Not sure what that means but worth investigating.

8. YouLicense
direct job opportunities are available here
http://www.youlicense.com/Opportunities/default.aspx

here’s the RSS feed for the jobs list 
http://www.youlicense.com/XML/RSS/Opportunities/YouLicenseOpportunities.xml

9. Minimum Noise
http://www.minimumnoise.com/
A new site with all kinds of projects for "crowdsourcing musicians".

10. Pump Audio
http://pumpaudio.com/artists/index.php

There is no submission fee. If your music is not used, you lose nothing.
You will receive 50% of the license fees we receive for your music.
Pump’s deal is completely non-exclusive.
Our deal will never prevent you from working with anyone else.

11. Musicdealers.com
http://musicdealers.com/
A new site where you can upload and create a profile and the people at musicdealers pitch your tracks to potential clients.

12. Musicloops.com
Our site where you can submit a demo. No fees to join. Price your own tracks, lots of sales, with 50% of the price goes to the composer.