“Cue The Music” is a three part series examining the options available to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who wish to incorporate music in their productions. Part one examines the process of clearing copyrighted music. Part two offers 5 alternatives to using copyrighted music. Part three examines the process of using royalty free music. 1. […]
Copyrights in Public Domain music and Classical music
Who owns the rights in classical music by composers such as Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven and Vivaldi? Is it even legal for a company to sell this music and make a profit on it? Shockwave-Sound.com owner/founder Bjorn Lynne sheds some light on the rights in classical music and traditional music. Why are companies such as ourselves […]
New ‘Advanced Search’ feature at Shockwave-Sound.com
Hi all, Until now, we have always just had a single, simple “Search” feature here at Shockwave-Sound.com. This was fine years ago when we had only a thousand or so music tracks and sound effects. But as the years have gone by, adding new music and sound effects every week, or catalogue has grown to […]
Random sorting option on Genre pages
Hello all, Keen followers of Shockwave-Sound.com may have noticed that a new track sorting option has been added to all our Genre pages, and that this new Random order option has been made the default track ordering / display option when browsing our music genres. By “Genre pages”, I mean the page you come to […]
Non-watermarked preview files
Dear friends and customers, I would like to draw your attention to some new functionality we have on our website, which enables selected customers to get access to preview files without the voiceover watermark (“Preview…”, “Shockwave-Sound dot com…”) before actually buying the track. For obvious reasons, we are a little bit withholding with access to […]
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When music tracks are removed from our catalogue
I wanted to write a little note about what happens when we remove a track, or several tracks, from our catalog of royalty-free music and why this is sometimes done. We like to try to keep our catalog fresh and current. When we started Shockwave-Sound.com back in March of 2000, there were some stock music […]
GoDigital Media Group music ownership claims
Last fall around October/November, we here at Shockwave-Sound.com started to receive emails from worried customers who had licensed music from our site, used the music in YouTube videos, and received notifications from YouTube stating that the music “contains music owned by GoDigital Media Group”. We were unprepared for this and very much puzzled, because this […]
Shockwave-Sound.com goes High Definition for stock music
It’s not 1985 any more. It has actually been around 30 years since the Compact Disc came on the market, we all went out and bought Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms” on CD and were amazed at the crystal clarity of the sound. And with the invention of the CD came the digital audio standard: […]
Shockwave-Sound.com raising the bar for audiophile media producers
As of January 2010, we at Shockwave-Sound.com are pleased to announce that we are introducing a new level of audio quality for royalty free music users. We’re releasing all our new music — and some of our back catalogue — as High Definition, 24-bit WAV audio files. It has been almost 10 years since our […]
