Music and Sound Effects
Added 2022-07-02 01:35:31 +0000 UTCI've spent some time reviewing different music and sound effects options. I have a pretty good library of sound effects already, but sadly not nearly enough to get the job done. As far as music I spent a lot of time listening to different "royalty free" tracks, some on free sites and some that charge, but although there's a lot of variety overall with those options, the quality is just a little underwhelming.
So I'm going with a subscription-based service. It originally came down to Soundstripe and Epidemic Sound. Soundstripe is very attractive since they're a newer service and the odds of someone already having heard one of their tracks is minimal. I thought the quality of the music was excellent. And then I discovered that they don't license their music for use with anything that includes NUDITY. Sigh... what?! Epidemic has more sound effects, and many more music tracks. The quality is not as good as Soundstripe I think, but still quite good, and with their options I'd have a much better chance of finding what I need.
And then I discovered artlist.io. Quantity of tracks is halfway between Soundstripe and Epidemic, their licensing setup is simpler, with fewer gotchas (no nudity exception for one thing). And the music quality? AMAZING. Fantastic stuff! I even fairly quickly found a vocal hip hop track that I'm ITCHING to find a place in the script to use with Olivia! Female vocal, called BAD B**** FREESTYLE (you can probably easily guess what the missing letters are). Cheaper than the commercial Epidemic subscription (which is the one I'd need if I went with them). Plus they have a very good sound effects library.
THAT's what I'm going with, and I'm very excited!
