The YouTube Audio Library supplies Free music…
and advisements on Copyrighted music, as well!
Are you planning an MMD music video… or a video that includes music in it? … and want to know, in advance, if YouTube will BLOCK your new video? The YouTube Audio Library may give you the heads-up you need!
With the YouTube Audio Library, YouTube is attempting to give video-makers (including MMDers) some copyright-free music… and a tool to let you see the restrictions on popular music and popular artists.
The Ad-supported Music tab is a searchable list of artists and songs with whom YouTube has made copyright distribution/advertising arrangements. ALL music is not going to be available within this tool. But YouTube HAS made arrangements with a HUGE NUMBER of artists… some of them choosing to simply Not Allow their music to appear in any videos on YouTube… and many of them giving their permission in exchange for advertising privileges and concessions… and some have their copyrighted music blocked in only some countries wile being allowed to show in others, with, again, advertising privileges.
It’s a Win-Win!
Those artists who DO go along with allowing their material to be used in YouTube videos score some advertising revenue and a wider distribution of their name-brand… and WE get to use their materials in our animations with no out of pocket costs and no fear (OK; reduced fear) of having our videos blocked… Fantastic!
The YouTube Audio Library
Ad-Supported Music Tool
Find out if your tune will be blocked by YouTube!
The Ad-Supported Music tab is Searchable. If you simply open the page and take a look, you won’t see very many entries… but, using the Search window… searching for a particular artist or a particular song… will give you access to the info you seek.
Here, I searched for madonna… and there were quite a few to choose from…
You can see that “La Isla Bonita” will be allowed to show in ALL countries EXCEPT the Unite States… while “Like a Prayer” will be allowed to be viewed worldwide.
The YouTube Audio Library
The FREE Music list
The FREE Music tab has just that: free music to download, right from that page. You can click the black delta on the left of each entry to hear the song… or you can download that entry using the button on the right.
It’s searchable. I searched for Bach…
… and I found a couple of pieces by J.S.Bach as well as a couple of other pieces with Bach in their name. (ACTUALLY… that next song, “On the Bach” is a comedy video just waiting to be made! I can see a Miku or Neru percussionist drumming-out the rhythm and tapping Kaito on the head for that hollow woodblock sound… and he gets ticked-off every time… could be too funny!)
Click around in the free tunes and see what you have there… there are all kinds of music… much of it kind of simple-minded… but some good stuff, too! … You may be inspired to start a new project based upon the fun music you find there!
The YouTube Audio Library
The Sound Effects list
THIS could be valuable for MMDers such as myself. I am always making little scenes that need Foley sounds… doors shutting, water dripping, people laughing in the background… explosions! … ALL of those are here, and more!
Here is a look at the top of the Cartoon sound effects list…
… plenty of standard, necessary sound effects are there.
This one sound effect takes 13 seconds because there are several “thunks” of different kinds, there, with a moment of silence between each of them so you can edit the sound to “display” only the one “thunk!” you wish.
There you go!
There’s a quick introduction to the YouTube Audio Library page and its Ad-Supported music page tool.
Use the tool to test your intended MMD Music Video song before you find out that it’s blocked on YouTube… and… Enjoy the freebies that YouTube makes available on that page!
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