In recent times we’ve found that nursery rhymes have become popular with YouTubers who put the music to their animation in order to monetize their video. This is fine and is covered by our license and we have a page dedicated to using our music on YouTube. However, the Content ID inconvenience can frustrate those who don’t understand it, […]
Memories of Christmas Brass Banding Inspire Royalty Free Christmas Music
Much of my teenage life was spent playing the trombone in bands. I especially recall playing in public at this time of year in a variety of brass ensembles. My passion and past-time of playing music turned into composing with sequencing software and ultimately lead me to starting Media Music Now in 2005. Since then their has been […]
What is a Fair Royalty-free Music License Fee?
It’s a tricky question of judgment and fairness with no definitive answer. Getting the right balance and charging the right royalty-free music license fee can be difficult. Make it too low, you upset composers, but make it too high, you upset clients. It is competitive out there so the temptation is to create a low […]
New Audio Player
Our developer, Simon has been really busy creating our brilliant new audio player. It is HTML5 and is much quicker and slicker than its Flash predecessor. It also has some great new functionality. The first big change you will see is in the search results. Each result has a small waveform display next to the […]
Royalty Free Music Infographic Download
Some of the most common questions we get asked by our clients are, What can our music be used for? What type of license do they need and are there any restrictions? For this reason, we have created this handy infographic that you can download or view online. The aim is to help you easily understand […]
Content ID: A Balanced View
There is much discussion on this topic between music producers, music libraries and professional music buyers. This blog post is our view on Content ID. Now, I don’t want you to think that I am only looking at this from a one-sided point of view. Although royalty free music is one of our main areas […]
[VIDEO Tutorial] Professional Music Buyers Guide
We published a series of posts last year ‘Professional Music Buyers Guide‘ that looked at the various aspects of music royalties, the different types of music libraries and how these can affect use of music. Following on from this we have created a video tutorial bringing all these posts together. You can watch this below. […]
Royalty Free Music Previews Without Watermarks, Crazy or Shrewd?
Recently, we have become aware of some royalty free music libraries that do not protect their music previews with watermarks. On Media Music Now we provide full track previews but every 10-12 seconds or so the word “preview” or “Media Music Now” can be heard. While some may find this mildly irritating, providing there is […]
Cinematic Royalty Free Music for Games, Trailers & Film
We have put together a 5 and a half minute video showcasing a range of our cinematic epic tracks. The music featured in this video is available to license and download online from our music library. Direct links to the tracks are below the video. These royalty free music tracks are perfect for productions that […]
Royalty Free Music to Soothe and Relax
While browsing our royalty free music I ended up playing one of our chill-out ambient tracks called Dreamland and as I am feeling in rather a chilled mood today I thought I would showcase it in a video that you can watch below. The music along with the images accompany the idea of complete relaxation, […]