I need music library help!

puredrifting

puredrifting

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I have subscriptions to Epidemic, used to have Soundstripe, let it lapse because all of their tracks kind of end up sounding the same.
Epidemic is meh, ok, but nothing that inspires me, very generic and all of their tracks kind of have a similar feel to me.

I'm considering Artlist.io, I have a bunch of demo reels and marketing pieces in the edit queue and I am just having a hard time
finding fresh, hip, organic sounding tracks on any buyout. I've used a ton of Envato/Audio Jungle tracks over the years too but even they
are sounding stale to me.

Any newer, hipper, more organic, cinematic, high quality buyouts you've been using besides the ones I've used above?

God I miss having the budgets to hire composers. Back in the 90s and early 2000s, most pieces I produced, we would budget $3k to $20k for a composer and it was glorious.
Library music is just so blah in general. With today's micro budgets, I am stuck with library for most projects.
 
I use Artlist quite a lot. They have some decent tracks. If you want more tracks to choose from check out apmmusic.com there're over 800,000 tracks on there. But, yeah, the days of paying big $$$s for a composer are very rare these days.
 
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Funny that you write this today—I actually just signed up to Audiio.

I missed the lifetime deal for $199, but paid $299 today for lifetime membership to all their tracks. Licence cover most bases except broadcast and world wide theatrical release. But the cases that aren't covered can be licensed painlessly.

I don't think Audiio is better than anything else, but I remember thinking a lot about Artlist.io when it came out. I think that they also offered 'lifetime' for early adopters, but now it's yearly subscriptions for $199 or so.

The 'lifetime' deal that I chose is a wager that audiio manages to stay in business for a while. Even only 5 years or so, is good value.

Yes, these sites produce pretty generic sounding tracks, but they do release new content weekly (30-50 tracks or so) and it's very stress free to casually listen without hoarding anything locally and then know that there will be zero issues with YouTube and the like.
It's also pretty easy to find what you're looking for with their filtering functions, as seen on many similar sites.

I'd do Artlist if they had the $200-300 deal, but I haven't seen that lately. My guesstimate is that these services will offer similar content once they mature. And it's nice to know that my music tracks are "free" from here on out.
 
AndreeOnline said:
Funny that you write this today—I actually just signed up to Audiio.

I missed the lifetime deal for $199, but paid $299 today for lifetime membership to all their tracks. Licence cover most bases except broadcast and world wide theatrical release. But the cases that aren't covered can be licensed painlessly.

I don't think Audiio is better than anything else, but I remember thinking a lot about Artlist.io when it came out. I think that they also offered 'lifetime' for early adopters, but now it's yearly subscriptions for $199 or so.

The 'lifetime' deal that I chose is a wager that audiio manages to stay in business for a while. Even only 5 years or so, is good value.

Yes, these sites produce pretty generic sounding tracks, but they do release new content weekly (30-50 tracks or so) and it's very stress free to casually listen without hoarding anything locally and then know that there will be zero issues with YouTube and the like.
It's also pretty easy to find what you're looking for with their filtering functions, as seen on many similar sites.

I'd do Artlist if they had the $200-300 deal, but I haven't seen that lately. My guesstimate is that these services will offer similar content once they mature. And it's nice to know that my music tracks are "free" from here on out.
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I signed up to audiio.com on the lifetime as well and have already got my money back in comparison to premiumbeat as it were. I don't have that much experience of the others so I cannot really compare but I am happy so far.
 
Thanks guys, you have all given me some good options to check out. Nothing like having a composed score but I only get that luxury once in a while these days.
I miss the late 90s and early 2000s where I was working with half a dozen composers on a regular basis, I got spoiled. Library music kind of sucks compared to
custom score. But those days are gone, along with real budgets.

A friend of mine who has been at this as long as I have were lamenting the other day how low end corporate used to be standard $50k for 2-5 minute piece.
Now the same is struggling to be at $10k. It was nice not having to do everything on a shoestring and do everything yourself. It was better having crews, editors, composers,
instead of everyone expecting everything for close to free.
 
I have been using https://www.akmmusic.co.uk who do a hell of a range specifically for film work. some for some things there are intro's exit's stings and the main theme. Also some designed to be cut do they can be shortened or extended
 
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