Freeplay music

Cool site, Lorna.... Does it actually let you download any music? All I see is little 5 or 10 second snippets.

Yup, I've found the same stuff there as I used to find in the .mac freeplaymusic folder. Try this, James. Go to the main page and, in the search area, type celebrate. That will bring up ONE song "Journey's End". Below the name of the song you'll see your download options. You can download from a 10 sec "bump" to a 2 minute background track.

The great thing about them is that if you want to use the same kind of tune throughout a video, the short clips all resolve themselves in the same "style" as the long clips; in 10, 15, 20 etc. seconds, the tune comes to it's musical end.

Kyn...

Thanks for the clarification. So you are saying that if all I need 15 sec worth to "pad" an audio track, I can use something like this? These aren't loops, are they? And I wonder what if I need something that is 2:15... can I just tack the 15 second piece onto the end of the 2 minute track? Doesn't sound like it. Just trying to figure out the use. I think this sort of thing is good for fitting video to the specified audio track...not the other way around, right?

Right. If you've got 15 seconds where you want to display some text on the screen to describe the next scene AND you want it to musically match your 30 second intro music, you just grab the 15 second version and pop it in.

They're not loops, and you're right again, they're mainly for fitting video to specified audio. There are other tools like SmartSound that you can enter the length of the audio you want and it will programmatically build to the closest 10/15 seconds I think. Either way, you'll end up fitting audio to video unless you have a band (or garage band 🙂 that can cut the audio to your exact time limitation.

Hey cool. Thanks again, Kyn! Your explanation was much clearer than my directionless questioning! I'll have to start looking into this stuff. The idea of generating audio that "fits" the length of my video clips is intriguing to me.