Like royalty-free images, royalty-free music can be found by the in amazing varieties and quantities on the Web. Just do a Google search, and you’ll see.

Ralph Clevenger, who inspired me to embrace royalty-free music, suggested I check out these sites:

• The Music Bakery
• NEO Sounds
• Partners in Rhyme
• Shockwave-Sound.com

Royalty-Free Music Suggestions?

Not really sure how I ended up using Premiumbeat.com for the $29.95 worth of music I used in my “Royalty-Free Buenos Aires,” but I was just experimenting, and I was left wondering. . .With all the royalty-free music sits and services, certainly some have got to be better than others. So. . .

If you are ahead of me on this royalty-free music learning curve — which wouldn’t be hard — are there royalty-free music services and basic concepts that you might share with me, and my thousands of faithful readers?

SmartSound and Sonicfire Pro?

As long as you’re answering questions, what’s up with SmartSound and Sonicfire Pro? The site says, “Only SmartSound gives you the power to automatically adjust the length of a music track to your scene,” which seems pretty cool, but was beyond my baby-step experiments. And what’s Sonic Fire Pro, which seems to work with Final Cut Pro?

Seems like these could be invaluable tools, or perhaps there just something to distract us newbies from learning the very basic music editing we need to learn. If have an opinion, please opine.

Tags: Moving Into Motion, Multimedia Editing, NEO Sounds, Partners in Rhyme, Premiumbeat.com, Ralph Clevenger, Royalty-Free Buenos Aires, Royalty-Free Music, Shockwave-Sound.com, SmartSound, Sonicfire Pro, Sound Editing, The Music Bakery, The Music of Photography, Video Editing