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> If you do a quick Google search for ‘Royalty free music’ or ‘YouTube cleared music’
Yeah, try "creative commons music" instead.
> 100% free for anyone to use – The Filmstro Free Music offering
vs.
> The only limitation is that commercial use of the music is not covered with these free tracks.
That's not 100% free.
Also, no download without account.
Is YouTube themselves working with to clear this music? Is it marked in YouTube's ContentID system somehow? Some artists have had copyright strikes placed against THEM for one of their original songs because someone else used their song (with permission) and then had YT's ContentID mark the other publisher as the owner. It has got to be a slap in the face to generously offer your art for this use, only to be punished…
Royalty free music is a pain. I wanted to licence a music track for use for YouTube and a podcast, but it's just unclear if that requires different licences, and if it's a series, it may only cover a certain number of episodes and expire after some time before you have to buy again. I did discover icons8's free music selection which is actually very good: https://icons8.com/music/
Filmstro (https://filmstro.com/music) is the company it's talking about with some seriously cool tech - for every music track, you can control three sliders (momentum, depth, and power) to change the mood of the song in real time - or in Premiere with a plugin.
Of course, this costs money, but it's one of the coolest things I've seen in this field in the last quite a while.
Is YouTube themselves working with to clear this music? Is it marked in YouTube's ContentID system somehow? Some artists have had copyright strikes placed against THEM for one of their original songs because someone else used their song (with permission) and then had YT's ContentID mark the other publisher as the owner. It has got to be a slap in the face to generously offer your art for this use, only to be punished…
I think what irritates me the worst is that as far as I have been able to tell, there's no way to inform YouTube that you have written permission or a license. Some people just have privilege to not be Content ID stricken, and other people have to appeal when they inevitably do get hit.
Is YouTube themselves working with to clear this music? Is it marked in YouTube's ContentID system somehow? Some artists have had copyright strikes placed against THEM for one of their original songs because someone else used their song (with permission) and then had YT's ContentID mark the other publisher as the owner. It has got to be a slap in the face to generously offer your art for this use, only to be punished…
I think what irritates me the worst is that as far as I have been able to tell, there's no way to inform YouTube that you have written permission or a license. Some people just have privilege to not be Content ID stricken, and other people have to appeal when they inevitably do get hit.
I'm not saying that's a valid justification, but I imagine it's the thought process.
If only you could automatically transform these songs to be of a desired length (naturally, without clipping/fading).
Hi HN! I'm one of the devs at Filmstro (the company featured in the article). You can check out our music library here https://filmstro.com/music .
As far as I can tell, they've put together a wide-ranging set of fairly generic-sounding movie music (generic = good, so it doesn't call attention to itself)... but composed it in a way that the three parameters (momentum, depth, power) simply map to different volume levels of the underlying instrumental tracks -- but all perfectly tuned to always produce a pleasing result.
As far as I can tell raising a slider often maps non-linearly to more volume, but sometimes it reduces/removes instruments too.
So there doesn't appear to be any machine learning, nothing crazy fancy -- which is what makes it so clever and impressive in a "I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that" way. I can only imagine the amount of product iteration it took to arrive at what the 3 parameters should be (and why 3 instead of 2 or 10). It reminds me a lot of Adobe's Multiple Masters technology for typefaces. [1]
If they keep putting out enough of these master tracks, I wonder if it will reduce the market for film composers. After all, most films don't need recognizable motifs, they just need music to tell us how to feel, and this meets that need perfectly. Bad for music students, good for film students...