For your listening pleasure — and in order to preview the royalty-free background music on our downloadable CD-collection “Soft Explorations, Vol. 6“, we’ve created a nice YouTube video that plays all the 11 tracks from this album, one after the next. With on-screen information about the track title and artist, and a nice, soothing nature […]
Tag: YouTube
Best 100 royalty-free Country tracks as a YouTube playlist
Dear friends and customers at Shockwave-Sound, We’ve gathered our Top 100 royalty-free Country music tracks on a YouTube playlist, in case some of you like to use YouTube for previewing and browsing music tracks. If you would like more information or to license the track you’re hearing at YouTube, simply click the link from the […]
Finding the details of a YouTube copyright claim and who’s claiming what
If you have an active copyright claim on your YouTube video, it may be useful for you to find exactly what is being claimed, and by whom, so that the claim can be dealt with. Ensure you are logged into your YouTube account. Click the icon near the top right of the screen and click […]
Google Close Captions Sound Effects
Google, ever the inventors of new technology and the owners of YouTube.com, have broadened their work into the area of sound effects, specifically through the audio captioning on their YouTube network. Traditionally “closed captions,” which provide text on the screen for those with hearing challenges, provided dialog and narration text from audio. Now, however, Google […]
Explanation of YouTube Content-ID for Stock Music / Production Music composers
Recently, one of our artists wrote to me with questions about YouTube and his right to receive compensation when his music was used in YouTube videos. I ended up writing a pretty long explanation around the whole YouTube / Content-ID issue, and I just thought it was worth sharing here, in case it can help […]
YouTube, Copyright notices and YouTube Safe Music
Got a “copyright claim” on music licensed from us? If you have licensed a music track from Shockwave-Sound.com and you get a “copyright notice” on your video, where the music ownership is claimed by some company (e.g. CDBaby, AdRev), first of all, rest assured that you’re not in any kind of trouble. […]
Lifeyo has made cool content management
Lifeyo has made a cool Content Management System / Website building tool that makes it easy and fun to make your own website and blog. Putting together the YouTube video that demonstrates their service, they came to Shockwave-Sound.com for royalty-free music. We really liked the video and thought we’d post it here too. Notice that […]
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 […]
YouTube music use, music fingerprinting and advertising on YouTube videos
Hello all, We’re being asked a lot of questions about YouTube music use, YouTube’s “music recognition” system and how it relates to the use of licensed music, royalty free music, and “YouTube friendly music”, so I decided to write a few words about this somewhat complex issue. YouTube have developed a system in which they […]
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 […]
