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Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by tefles » Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:51 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #19

tefles wrote: post #3

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 .

Could you put a link to the actual license? I can't seem to find it.

There is a PDF included when you download one of the tracks. But here is the direct link https://filmstro.com/images/freemium-license.pdf

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by crazygringo » Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:56 PM UTC

jasonjayr wrote: post #10

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…

Since the music is generated with the 3 custom sliders which you can change over time, I wonder how often YT would even detect a match? How often would people use similar-enough parameters of similar-enough parts that it would seem to be the same?

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by zacattack » Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

jasonjayr wrote: post #10

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…

Totally agree - Content creators shouldn't have to be penalised unjustly for stuff like that. We (Filmstro) as the publishers decide if and where to collect royalty income. In the case of Youtube we made the decision not to register our music for royalties with Youtube - Which means, you won't have ANY issues with 'permissions' and ContentID marks :)

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by tefles » Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:59 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #20

Wow, this is one of the cleverest ideas I've seen in a long time. 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 prod…

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head with your description.

Just regarding your comment about music students, please feel free to get in touch with us if you are interested in writing music for Filmstro. send an email to composer@filmstro.com

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by kasikp » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

tefles wrote: post #3

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 .

Any promo codes you can share with HN community? :-) This looks great, would love to give the Filmstro Pro a try.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by bartproost » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

Much less complete, but I post 5 royalty-free no copyright tracks every week here: https://no-lick.com.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by killaken2000 » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

jchw wrote: post #13

jasonjayr wrote: post #10

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.

It's not uncommon for nefarious people to contentid swaths of music/sound effects that have been released for use on YouTube or otherwise.

Then you have to dispute it while they take the ad revenue and let the clock run out.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by SnowingXIV » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:18 PM UTC

This and icons8 is getting pretty close to what I'd love to use on a regular basis. Unsplash has been great for creating a wonderful platform for truly free do what you want images. Now I'd like to see the same in audio/video. For advertising on YouTube or even actual commercials it would be nice have really affordable solution to use generic (but good!) sounding music that small businesses could use to give their ads a more polished feel. It's a big help because a lot of companies can't afford the licenses for big tracks or hire in a studio. Heck, even paying for images typically is a hard pill to swallow.

As a consumer I always appreciate seeing higher quality production regardless of the product.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by zacattack » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC

bartproost wrote: post #26

Much less complete, but I post 5 royalty-free no copyright tracks every week here: https://no-lick.com .

Really cool to see you supporting the same cause too! :) We've got an authoring tool for composers that we're working on - You should get in touch with our Head of Audio (John) composer@filmstro.com - There could be an interesting collaboration here.

Re: Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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Post by tefles » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC

kasikp wrote: post #25

tefles wrote: post #3

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 .

Any promo codes you can share with HN community? :-) This looks great, would love to give the Filmstro Pro a try.

Thanks for all the love.

We've just created a discount code for you guys. You can use this on any of the monthly subscriptions. It will give you 50% off the first month.

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