We’re always working on improving and diversifying the ways that you can browse and search for music here at Shockwave-Sound.com, and this week we’ve added the possibility to browse for retro music by decade. By clicking on Suggested Production Types you can see a panel similar to the one shown here on the left. You […]
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New ways of browsing for music at Shockwave-Sound.com
We’re very happy and excited to announce the new music browsing tool here at Shockwave-Sound.com. Our site and music catalog has come a long way since the first beginnings back in April 2000 and it was no longer enough to simply be able to look at a music genre and see hundreds or even a […]
Royalty-Free music with real orchestra
The state of royalty free music / stock music has come a long way since the rather bland, generic sounding electronic tracks of the 1980’s. As the music library business has “grown up” so to speak, the talent, effort, time and money put into library music recordings have increased gradually. We are now at a […]
Track # 10,000 reached at Shockwave-Sound.com
On June 7, 2011, we added track #10,000 to our royalty free music catalog. Track number ten thousand in our database was given to this rather nice & evocative piece of neo-classical piano + orchestra track by Yuri Sazonoff: http://www.shockwave-sound.com/track/10000 At the time of writing this, it’s about 24 hours later and right now we […]
Download multiple files in one big download
We’re happy to announce our “download page re-zipper”. This custom engineered little piece of software is now presented on your download page if you have ordered multiple products. Instead of downloading each sound file by itself, you can now click “Select All” and then click “Download selected files as one big .zip file”. Our server […]
Higher sound quality previews on our older tracks
Back in the day (i.e. before 2010) 😉 we used to create all our preview audio files in 56-kbps MP3 format, with a “preview…. shockwave-sound….” voice that was mixed in at a fixed volume. From about December 2010 onwards we started making our preview audio in 128-kbps MP3 files (higher fidelity, more clarity) and also […]
Upgrades & improvements coming to Shockwave-Sound.com
Dear Shockwave-Sound.com users / customers, When we first started Shockwave-Sound.com back in April of 2000 (now more than 11 years ago), the site contained basically only a few music tracks by founder/creator Bjorn Lynne, himself a musician with a nose for the emerging royalty-free music market. Everything was run pretty much manually, with Bjorn himself, […]
Shockwave-Sound.com music boogies down on X-Box
Check out some of Shockwave-Sound.com’s music used in a very cool way, in Avatar Boogie 2. Is it a game? Is it a show? Is it a dance video? I guess it’s all of these and more! Watch your own X-box avatar dance the night away with funky moves from ballet to funk, from disco […]
Cross-promote your video / game / film / website / project with us
Here at Shockwave-Sound.com we love to cross-promote with our customers, so if you write up a little story/article on your website or blog, we will do the same for you on our blog. Our site is visited by over 4,500 different/unique visitors every day and is a very active place with a lot of media […]
YouTube Safe Music, how to use and properly credit composer and publishers on YouTube
A discussion on legal use of music on YouTube, how to properly credit composers and publishers of music used in YouTube videos, and how performance royalties apply to YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe hosted videos. Obtaining YouTube music from a stock music library Many people looking for music that they can legally use in their […]
