Free music for all. YouTube is giving the stuff away. Well
it's letting you use songs from its newly launched Audio Library.
The plan is to offer music so that YouTube creators can make
videos with the right feel more easily. YouTube has 150 rights-free songs, at
320 kbps, all ready to download - and they can be used for anything, not just
YouTube. They are organised by Featured, Genre, Mood, Instrument, Duration and
Favourites but you can also search if you know what you're looking for.
Here's hoping this will mean videos start to vary their
backing music and give the old ukelele a break for once. Since a track's
popularity is also shown it should allow people to go for variations on the
norm for creative, original videos.
YouTube built the library so far with the help of any
musicians that were interested. And that method will continue. Anybody wishing
to contribute to the library can do so, meaning the number of songs should grow
as Audio Library develops.
