July 27th, 2007

Better Royalty Free Music from RoyaltyFreeMusic.com Previously when people thought of royalty free music, they often thought of cheap, boring music with low production value, fake, canned instruments, generic melody and harmony lines and a non-descript attitude. Professionals looking to add inexpensive background music and production music to their collections would struggle with the idea of dealing with royalty free music providers that typically were characterized by low, unoriginal inventories of music that were only available in specific formats (and typically not able to be downloaded). Because so many film and television professionals, boutique owners and restaurateurs once associated "elevator music" and royalty free music, at best with poorly "classicalized" versions of pop and rock classics - 1980's Michael Jackson and Bon Jovi hits played by frantic, synthesized strings were prevalent -- they cringed at the idea of having to search through music not from major music providers for something usable simply because the price was right. Previously, royalty free music left no real background music and production music alternatives for those not willing to pay exorbitant monthly on-going fees to use well-known recordings of music on an on-going basis with few restrictions.

Thanks to the power of technology that has reshaped not only the way music is created, produced and recorded but also how it is distributed - through online music services - royalty free music has experienced a real renaissance in the past decade. Companies such as RoyaltyFreeMusic.com now have professional composers working on original tracks of music using real instruments that play melodies in every style, from traditional classical music to rock, pop and jazz and even very specialized categories such as electronic, dance, world music, avant-garde and everything in between. And the background music libraries now often consist of over 10,000 tracks of original, vibrant royalty free music that can be immediately downloaded and added to any sort of professional library and used for a lifetime with no further obligations.

Three Good Reasons Royalty Free Music Has Changed for the Better in the Past Decade:

1. Technology, and specifically the Internet now allows for easy, inexpensive downloading and sharing of music, eliminating much of the cost of distributing background music and production music. The ability to quickly upload recorded tracks and sell them on e-commerce sites frees up time for artists, musicians and music professionals to record more work and offer more variety at reasonable prices.

2. Changing technology has led to a change in copyright law and its enforcement. As the Internet has expanded the potential for illegal sharing and downloading, authorities have been much more watchful of practices among professionals of using copyright-protected music as part of their revenue-earning businesses. High-profile background and production music-related lawsuits that have produced hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars in damages for restaurant owners, film producers and directors and other professionals have forced many to seek out inexpensive alternatives to paying on-going high monthly fees to fulfill needs. Thus many have demanded more variety from their royalty free music, and those in the industry have responded accordingly.

3. Available, accessible technology has increased the production quality of royalty free music. High-quality production suites and exacting, highly efficient digital recording devices are now available at a fraction of the price as in previous years. Therefore, those creating royalty free music have more opportunity to record and more ability to create new work to fill their production music libraries with the best music possible.

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com offers one of the best production music and background music libraries available and continues to expand its royalty free music library to meet the changing demands of the thousands of film and television professionals, restaurateurs, small business owners, corporate professionals and countless others that benefit from its unique offerings. As technology changes and provides more options and a better reputation for royalty free music companies around the world that provide inexpensive, high-quality and original music at a fraction of the price of that offered by major music providers (and with no on-going fees or obligations!), the options for discriminating individuals looking for the best and most affordable background music and production music to complete their important projects expand exponentially.

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