YouTube has partnered up with music licensing startup Rumblefish to enable users to add fully licensed songs from its 25,000 tracks strong catalog of independent artists to videos. Users can add the songs through the AudioSwap feature, giving them a much broader choice than was the case until now.
To use the feature, just pick any uploaded video and browse the provided audio library. You’ll get a preview, and with the click of a button YouTube will start processing the request. Note that adding a song will completely replace the current audio from the video.
Rumblefish’s catalog includes everything from ambient, metal, experimental and electronica to the classics and full orchestral scores. Just don’t use it to cheat on the YouTube Symphony Orchestra competition.
This is very interesting. I wonder how much the license fees were.
oh Indie music, when are you going to learn that “indie” is a synonym for “suck”?
I challenge you to post such a comment on an Indie Music site – like mine
Many of the musicians are very, very popular and talented. They just decided to not make it their career.
Allen, founder
http://www.madtownlounge.com
almost totally useless for a video content creator, if it will “replace the current audio from the video” all you can do is create a video for these indie tracks
How did you get the anonymous facebook name?
not a clue…
I think this is a win for everybody and I disagree about Indie music sucking. You might have to sift through more songs to find what your want but there are gems out there. I would argue the opposite, 95% of popular music blows and is overused in videos.
This will also hopefully teach budding videographers to work with with this library rather than use the same popular songs over and over.
I’ll bet there were no license fees. Or if there were, they were very small. Rumblefish and the artists stand to benefit huge from this from the exposure to bigger audiences for both brand and music.
A cool feature would be for the user to be able to one-click download the song from Youtube for 50-99 cents if they like it. YouTube as a new force in the music industry?
-Randall
Great feature, can’t wait to use it; this is the kind of innovation we advocate for at http://www.youtechno.info
cool stuff
Nice one! Big step for indies and for legal licensed content.
As someone who works with the “indie” based music at Rumblefish, I know how amazing the end result of our indie artists work can be. If anyone is curious about just how good it is, I encourage them to visit the Rumblefish MusicLicensing store and take a listen for themselves.
http://www.musi...ensingstore.com
This should be quite useful to many I feel. Indy music being free of the control of big business that demands formula before art.
I was actually wondering when YouTube was gonna allow folks to add music to their streaming videos, because it did kinda get boring for a while
About time they add music
Bigger step for indies than it is for anyone else…to get their music onto YouTube? Huge. As for indie music not being good, it’s like popular music…some of it is good, some not. The percentage isn’t that different really, from my experience.
Definitely a win for ALL musicians – not just indie. While indie music might get first dibs on this licensing system, look for this to hit more unsigned acts and even those who are looking to expand beyond the traditional record label. Maybe not with Rumblefish but someone else who can line up the content creators. Think of what you song featured in a video can do… think Apple’s iPod commercials and Fiest.
I think the best thing about this is you’ll have a lot more videos with less crappy music. Because lets face it. Most people are not content creators and most people do a crappy job at attaching audio to video. Not to say they still can’t do it but I’d assume that those people would go through less hassle and just add one of the 25k songs.
I was actually wondering when YouTube was gonna allow folks to add music to their streaming videos, because it did kinda get boring for a while
This will be a very handy tool.
A lot of people use copyrighted music for their youtube video. But it seems not causing any legal trouble yet.
Not to say they still can’t do it but I’d assume that those people would go through less hassle and just add one of the 25k songs.
maybe youtube allow licensed music and i can get my musics from youtube for my website.. my users can listen online music on my site with youtube embed
A lot of people use copyrighted music for their youtube video…
Definitely a win for ALL musicians – not just indie. While indie music might get first dibs on this licensing system, look for this to hit more unsigned acts and even those who are looking to expand beyond the traditional record label
I was actually wondering when YouTube was gonna allow folks to add music to their streaming videos, because it did kinda get boring for a while
About time they add music
How did you get the anonymous facebook name?
I think this is a win for everybody and I disagree about Indie music sucking. You might have to sift through more songs to find what your want but there are gems out there. I would argue the opposite, 95% of popular music blows and is overused in videos.
thanks for this topic.
About time they add music
How did you get the anonymous facebook name?
thanks fro the info
good. oh Indie music, when are you going to learn that
thanks for this.i will use it