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Production Music Licensing Website RoyaltyFreeKings.com Announces Major Update

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 29, 2013

RoyaltyFreeKings.com has been busy with major under-the-hood updates, in preparation for a steady stream of new royalty free albums and tracks. The considerable addition to the catalog includes a eclectic selection of new albums, including western film music, solo piano and epic orchestral trailer music, all aimed primarily at independent producers.

Several new releases include: ‘Wild Wild West’; a royalty free western music album featuring sweeping orchestral film music and brooding western acoustic soundscapes, ‘Moody Piano’; solo royalty free piano tracks aimed at independent dramatic films and perfect as music for a documentary; and ‘Epic Worlds 3’; modern royalty free epic music designed for use in trailers and promos.

March has brought about a recent new milestone for RoyaltyFreeKings.com: 800,000 plays through their demo player (powered by SoundCloud.com). In their first year, RoyaltyFreeKings.com has become known throughout the world as a source of quality music. Traffic to the website and sales of the library’s downloadable background music have steadily increased each month as producers from every corner of the world have learned of the music licensing website, and the strict quality control that runs through the entire catalog.

Alongside the new tracks and albums, a wide selection of free-to-use production tracks is also available to anyone working with a low to medium budget (US$ 250,000 or less per project). The music is immediately downloadable and ready to use. This complimentary background music section has proved to be very popular with students, educators and charities around the world. The range of styles and genres in the music given away by RoyaltyFreeKings.com include: epic dramatic orchestral, ambient piano, jazz, comedy, rock and suspense tension.

The mission of RoyaltyFreeKings.com since launching in 2012 has been to make searching for background music for video production incredibly easy and streamlined. The crowd-sourcing business model (where anyone can upload music), like that used by many competing royalty free websites, has the benefit of a rapid expansion of content. The downside is that with so many tracks being uploaded, the catalog easily gets bloated with mediocre music that does little to enhance a project, whether it’s a commercial, wedding video, film or webisode. Producers looking through these crowd-sourcing music licensing websites have to spend significant time sifting through vast collections to find something they’d actually want to use, or worse – settle for something inferior just because they don’t have the time to continue searching.

By hand picking each track, RoyaltyFreeKings.com only allows in music that meets a strict standard of musicality and production value. The growing catalog of hand picked tracks at RoyaltyFreeKings.com is produced by an international group of over fifty award winning composers, including a pop rock producer in Finland, a Nashville based folk and country expert, a heavy metal specialist in Italy, a renowned acoustic guitar artist in Hawaii and several well known trailer music composers. The high quality of tracks from these composers results is a streamlined shopping experience where producers can find, purchase and download the music they need within just a few minutes.

A guiding principle for RoyaltyFreeKings.com is fair treatment of their content suppliers. The composers who provide the carefully vetted music are given an equal share of the sales, before any discounts a customer might receive. This is in sharp contrast to many of its competitors, some of whom are offering far less – 40%, 35%, or in some cases just 30% of the sales to composers.







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Music Licensing Has Become Simpler With Help Of Crowd-sourcing

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Music industry is teeming with budding talents who are in dire need of a break to showcase their original creations before public. As they are not among the rising flocks of copy-cats but belong to the rare group of extraordinary talented artists, so their original compositions must be preserved by dint of music licensing. Getting one’s music licensed means that the particular piece of music can not be used without the prior permission of the composers. Now for simplicity, the entire process of licensing music can be divided into three tasks locating the perfect song, entering into the negotiation process for the song and finally deciding the price. Each of these tasks is tough and tedious one. They require the involvement of several persons to accomplish the entire process of licensing. With the extensive use of net, however these not-so-simple tasks have become simpler and quicker to finish. ‘Crowd-sourcing’ has lent music licensing a touch of simplicity.

There is no denying the fact that locating the music licensing for film, television and commercials is not a piece of cakewalk. With several hundreds songs being pumped into the market and uploaded to the web on weekly basis, searching the most suitable song as per as requirement seems to be the next to an impossible task. Filtering through so many collections to find out the best match requires so much time that the music supervisors prefer to work with the music publishers instead of turning to the independent entities for music licensing. Obviously, they have to shell out extra bulk to avoid extensive searching for the perfect match. By approaching the music supervisors, they also have an access to the well-known hit songs of the music world.

Negotiation is an important part of the entire gamut of music licensing. The skill of negotiations also comes into play while fixing the price of a song. This tough task gets tougher while dealing with the renowned publishers and labels. The cost of music licensing springs up as these publishers charge high price to involve all the necessary parties. On the other hand, involving an independent entity directly into the procedure of music licensing will lead to a significant reduction in cost but at the same time several problems will come to the surface too. The major problem is that these independent bodies possess no licensing department. These departments generally let the new musicians know the diverse options of music licensing. These independent personalities can also get into a fit of rage when the fresh talents find it very hard to comprehend various terms of licensing agreement and peck them with several questions.

The main advantage of using the ‘Crowd-sourcing’ method is the composers as well as song writers get to know the music licensing contract and also price in advance. This process is the reverse method of familiar licensing procedure as the music is located after negotiation process is over and price is set. Such process does not require one to search what he or she is looking for as the right music will be sent by the composers from any corner of the globe via net. The option of ‘Crowd-sourcing’ is not the best fitting solution of music licensing for film for the musicians but it is, no doubt, much better solution as compared to the familiar process of licensing music.

Daina Smith is a music lover. She has good knowledge on music licensing. For more information on music licensing for film she recommends to visit http://www.musicdealers.com/.

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