RyanSpaulding Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Hey guys, I've finished a 3 minute animation for a client and they're requestion some of that cheesy music to go with it...yet I cant seem to find anything FREE. Anyone know a URL or location of some decent royalty free/public domain music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Premiere comes with a cheesy/canned music generating app. Do you have a copy of Premiere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambros Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 There are a couple of music generating applications like ejay or something. I think codemasters had a very very easy piece of software that did good clips. I have bought some cds with royalty free music especially composed to be used as a background music. But since you have to buy those cds, it is not free either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skala67 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 id be interested in hearing who has good and "affordable" royalty free background music. Also I think there are free loops at http://www.flashkit.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 Niice. Thanks guys. Yeah, we have Premiere...but an old version. 5.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Niice. Thanks guys. Yeah, we have Premiere...but an old version. 5.1. It's called SmartSound QuickTracks, it was sold with my Premiere 6.0 See if yours has it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Ulrich Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 http://www.freeplaymusic.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 http://www.freeplaymusic.com Wow, great link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Wow, great link! It's not so free, though. Was the rate for music for an arch-viz animation $125? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 another site like this is http://www.videohelper.com you can go to their, and licence a track. if i remember right, on thier site, you can distribute the animation with the licensed audio around 1000 times for around $65. this fee can be directly billed to the client as a itemized item on your proposal or additional service fee. when you purchase the license, you purchase it knowing they are going to be the ones distributing it, so i guess you would have to be careful on how they are distributing it. ....another possibility might be to search old archives at http://www.archive.org, and see if you can find a public domain track. granted you won't find anything recent that is public domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 It's not so free, though. Was the rate for music for an arch-viz animation $125? Hmmmm...I can't find anything specific to Arch Viz on this page: http://www.freeplaymusic.com/licensing/ratecard.php ..but I'm sure it could be catagorized in there somewhere. At least I can use it for non-profit and student projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oluv Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 what kind of music does it have to be? funky? electronic? house? some years ago i did some "cheesy" funky electronic tunes, a bit of paul hardcastle style, mixed with house and drum'n'bass elements. everything is getting dusty now, nobody is listening to it, but if the tracks could be used, i would be glad. if you are interested i could upload the tracks to rapidshare. i had lots of stuff at besonic.com but as their servers crashed i never did any new uploads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanSpaulding Posted March 18, 2006 Author Share Posted March 18, 2006 The client actually bought a track for use. I'd show you guys, but there are confidentiality agreements in place =-\ Nothin like working 120 hours in 9 days whie sick getting a project done, then never being able to show anyone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 ....another possibility might be to search old archives at http://www.archive.org, and see if you can find a public domain track. granted you won't find anything recent that is public domain. I'm confused about that collection...is it all public domain stuff? I actually need something old sounding, and withing 30 seconds found a rather nice track from 1929. I looked for info on usage, but there's just a general one. Does anyone know anymore about the stuff on archive.org and usage in arch-vis animations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I'm confused about that collection...is it all public domain stuff? I actually need something old sounding, and withing 30 seconds found a rather nice track from 1929. I looked for info on usage, but there's just a general one. Does anyone know anymore about the stuff on archive.org and usage in arch-vis animations? ....i probably shouldn't have linked to that site. in hindsight, i am not sure at all about that site. here is what wikipedia says about stuff on archive.org... Internet Archive: Open Source Audio (most under licenses but some in the public domain) _____________________________________________ wikipedia, what is the def. of public domain... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain also from wikipedia, links to general public domain stuff... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_resources direct links that wikipedia provides for downloadable public domain music... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sound/list i found a few lists of songs, but no definitive resource, and not downloadable... http://www.web-helper.net/PDMusic/A/A.asp http://www.pdinfo.com/list.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/4 ..and i am not really sure what this site is. http://musicbrainz.org/about/licenses.html you might email this guy, and ask him what he can tell you about public domain music. he has a radio show on WFMU in your neck of the woods. it is called Thomas Edisons Attic, which plays albums recorded on the thomas edison cylinders... i don't know if they are public domain, and they probably pre-date what you are looking for... http://www.wfmu.org/email.php?id=47&return=%2Fschedule (web email link) http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/AP (link to his show) http://www.nps.gov/edis/edisonia/sounds.html (sample cylinders) ...et al, i take no responsibility for saying something is public domain if it isn't. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 i take no responsibility for saying something is public domain if it isn't.. Understood. I know that with photographs I buy, pre 1930 or so is safe, since it pre-dates the copyright law. I'll check into the archives. But I happened to find the perfect piece for my new project. I'm going to start the project by putting the music into a Premiere file and then add storyboard images as I create them. I need te verify the usage on the music, but it so perfect...it's got to work somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Understood. I know that with photographs I buy, pre 1930 or so is safe, since it pre-dates the copyright law. I'll check into the archives. But I happened to find the perfect piece for my new project. I'm going to start the project by putting the music into a Premiere file and then add storyboard images as I create them. I need te verify the usage on the music, but it so perfect...it's got to work somehow. notes from wikipedia... Note also that while some works (especially musical works) may be in the public domain, U.S. law considers transcriptions or performances of those works to be derivative works, potentially subject to their own copyrights. Expiration In the United States, copyright law has changed several times since the founding of the country. All copyrights and patents have always had a finite term, though the terms for copyrights and patents differ. When terms expire, the work or invention is released into public domain. In most countries, patents expire 20 years after they are filed. A trademark registration may be renewed and remain in force indefinitely provided the trademark is used, but could otherwise become generic. Copyrights are more complex than patents; generally, in current law they expire in all countries when all of the following conditions are satisfied (except Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Samoa): The work was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later;The last surviving author died at least 70 years before January 1 of the current year;No Berne Convention signatory has passed a perpetual copyright on the work; andNeither the United States nor the European Union has passed a copyright term extension since these conditions were last updated. (This must be a condition because the exact numbers in the other conditions depend on the state of the law at any given moment.) These conditions are based on the intersection of United States and European Union copyright law, which most other Berne Convention signatories recognize. Note that copyright term extension under U.S. tradition usually does not restore copyright to public domain works (hence the 1923 date), but European tradition does because the EU harmonization was based on the copyright term in Germany, which had already been extended to life plus 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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