I’ve had a bit of a dig around for background music for putting [mtb] videos on youtube. There’s certainly some around but it’s a bit of a task finding something appropriate:

a) because there’s a lot
b) because I wouldn’t know a good tune if it bit me in the arse

Any suggestions?

It’s ok to put copyrighted music on YouTube.
The music companies & YouTube came to an agreement a while ago.
The company (eg Sony) just put a link on to buy from iTunes.
At most the vid will be silenced in Germany.

I had read about that. It seemed all a bit… too good to be true I guess. I’ll do some digging. Thanks.

Of the vids I’ve made, some are straight lifts via youtube downloaders, some i’ve edited together, and some i’ve gone and asked the original source. So a bit of take your chance somtimes. Most of the time though, I’ll add a bit of text in the corner of the vid when the tune starts to let folk know what it is as a means of token credit.

There is tons out there. I tend to look for remixes / mashups . i.e. you know the tune, but its been tweaked.

Soundcloud.com is good for all sorts of remixes and you can get the mp3’s via offliberty.com

I stuck up a video yesterday and although they didn’t wipe the soundtrack, they did identify it as owned by ‘Koch Entertainment’. Nice name 🙂 Apparently its OK for now but Koch could decide to remove the soundtrack in the future.

But I’ve just found a free source of creative commons (i.e. you have permission to us it) music at http://ccmixter.org/ , not looked through it that much yet but first impressions are good.

P.S I know this thread is a week old but I was trying to find a thread from yesterday about suitable mtb music…