How to use this site

(for general help & FAQ click the 'help' menu on the right...)

We specialize in providing online royalty free music (also known as buy out production music).

You can search for the style of music you require, audition pieces to find your best choice, then instantly download your selection in high quality 256-bit MP3 format, or WAV loops. You get the royalty free music you need - when you need it!

The site is designed for Television Production Companies, Media Producers, Directors, Radio Companies, Advertising Agencies, independent production companies, TV broadcasters, Multimedia Producers, Web Designers, Video Producers.

How to Find the Right Music

Finding the right royalty free music for your project is very quick and easy, using the on-site search engines, click Royalty Free Music at the top of this page to go there. Here's how it works...

Quicksearch - Select your choices from the six menu categories on offer - Genre, Mood, Instrument, Length, Tempo and Source and click "Search!". The more categories you choose, the more focused your search results will be.

For example if you only select "Fast" tempo, the list of royalty free titles offered to you will be long, and will cover many styles of music.However if you selected "Fast" tempo and "rock" genre, the list will be shorter and more specific. If you select "Fast", "Rock", "Romantic" and "Bassoon" as your choices, the result list of royalty free titles meeting all these criteria will be understandably short (how many rock pieces with a romantic basson solo can you think of...?!). If you are given no search results, try broadening your search by selecting less options from the drop-down menu.

The search results will give you a list of Track titles matching your search criteria, with a brief description and links to the media player and your shopping cart. The results page for your search will look something like this...

You can see that the royalty free music Track is titled "Asian Persuasion", and comes in several variations - a main theme (two minutes and 8 seconds long) , a commercial cut 29seconds long (for TV and radio comemrcials), a "Sting" (short piece a few seconds long to set a scene, or play around a commercial break), and 3 loops (for example to use as background on a website using Flash, or to loop together to make a long continuous music 'bed').

Click the Play tab to audition the music you want to hear, and the music will start to play in a new popup window that looks like this:

If you have a reasonably high speed internet connection we recommend you use this Flash 'play' button to listen to the music tracks, so the music is presented in high quality stereo. Flash is a cross-platform product which is pre-installed on most computer systems. If you need to get a Flash player, or are having problems making the player work you may need to upgrade your Flash player. It's free, you can get the latest Flash Player version here

Low Quality Audio - If you are on a slower internet connection such as dial up, you may achieve smoother results by clicking the Windows Media logo button instead. The files here are lower audio quality so they work more easily when using a slow connection. You will need Windows Media Player to play these streaming files, it comes pre-loaded on Windows operating systems, or you can download it free for Mac or PC here from Microsoft.

If you like the music you hear, click "Add To Cart" and you will be asked to select the license, and the music will be put to one side until you are ready to proceed with your purchase.

You can also read more details of the particular title(s) you are interested in by clicking on . Note - The additional track details appear in a popup page when you click "track details". If you are running popup disabling software on your computer (perhaps to 'kill' those annoying ads that appear on some sites) the page will appear in the main body of the page instead. In this case, you may wish to turn off your anti-popup software, or temporarily bypass it when clicking, most packages allow you to do this by holding the 'Ctrl' key down.

Once you have selected all the tracks you wish to use in your production, simply click the " Cart/Checkout " button/link near the top/right of the screen to make your payment via credit card. Once you've paid you are taken instantly to a page where your music files are waiting for you to download - this is completely automated, so you won't have to wait to access your music. Click the links to simply download the music files in WAV 44.1/16bit format or MP3 256kbit format to your computer, and they're ready to use!

Advanced Search - With this search you can narrow down your hits by looking for royalty free tracks which have two or three particular Moods, instead of just one. You can do the same for Genre and Instrument.

Open Search - With this search, accessed via the Advanced Search page, y ou can also type in any search words you choose to find royalty free music tracks where the title or description contain them.

If you're new to MP3

MP3 is a computer file format (dull, but true) - the good thing is it enables you to receive & play music on your computer. With its incredible CD-standard sound quality, and small file sizes, MP3 has become the standard for music delivered on the internet.

All our MP3 files are extremely high quality encoded 256 bit MP3 files, which offer a better audio playback than the more common 128 & 192bit rates that are often used. 256-bit MP3 files offer a superior clarity over 128-bit files that is clearly audible on good quality playback systems. As a rough guide, the size of your purchased file in Mb is approximately twice it's length in minutes. So if you bought a main theme with a running time of 3 minutes, the download will be around 6Mb.

MP3 Players are often free (visit our software page in the links/resources area (click site map ) to get one free). Today's computers have good sound capabilities, and with off-line video editing now the norm, files are easy to integrate into any TV production.

FREE MP3 Royalty Free Music

Here's a free MP3 track to download. It's available to use in any of your productions (see license page, click site map ) as with all our tracks. If you've never downloaded a track before, we suggest you try it on this one first before purchasing your own choices.