Royalty free background music for video - where to find?

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I'm making a book trailer for my next kindle book (scifi) but I'm having a hard time finding some good royalty free background music, usually I just use my Garageband soundbites on my Mac but I need something more "epic" for the trailer.

Any ideas where I can find something good. Thanks.

Slobodan-Dan
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  • Profile picture of the author evakent256
    Isn't youtube like the best place for this?
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    • Profile picture of the author spearce000
      Originally Posted by evakent256 View Post

      Isn't youtube like the best place for this?
      No. Never use a music track from a YouTube video - especially if it's a commercial music track. The owner will more than likely sue your a** for megga money. Record companies will come down you like a ton of bricks. Don't do it!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ammy Singh
      No - never ever use a random YT track for purposes that do not fall under "Fair Use". But, there are some nice Royalty Free tracks over there. The one we get while uploading the videos. I'm not sure if they are only free to use on Youtube.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    There is audio blocks. It is free for seven days - yes seven. I like to use back ground music. It is divided up into each genre. Find what you need such as classical, rock, techno, jazz, or rap. Like this is great for you tube videos and other services. Basically, there are sound effects as well as themes that are max epic. Oh yes, those would be great for an epic movie.
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  • Profile picture of the author arcedv
    Originally Posted by HelpingYouBeAnExpert View Post

    I'm making a book trailer for my next kindle book (scifi) but I'm having a hard time finding some good royalty free background music, usually I just use my Garageband soundbites on my Mac but I need something more "epic" for the trailer.

    Any ideas where I can find something good. Thanks.

    Slobodan-Dan
    Hey,

    I used Jamendo. They have a huge library of music with vocals, instrumental music in many categories. And almost all are free.

    Jamendo - Royalty free music downloads - Licensing

    Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author Humbee360
    There are tons of vendors out there, but you really have to read the fine print in licensing agreements, if you want to avoid any copyright issues, buy from someone you know.

    Get a license agreement so you have it if there is ever any question of the music.

    It happened to me one time on Youtube, someone decided they would report my video because it had music they claimed was theirs.

    Youtube was getting ready to close my account, but I had a license to the music, when I emailed that into youtube, never had another issue again.

    Its good to be prepared in case something unexpected happens.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ammy Singh
    Try AudioJungle or The Music Bakery - they are good.
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  • YouTube has a lot of royalty free music. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
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  • Profile picture of the author julesw
    I like incompetech.com

    Lots of youtubers use it and if you credit him in description or somewhere buried on your website you are good to go for commercial videos
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Ho - hum . . . yet another old thread brought to life by a newbie that links to his web site in the post . . .

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