073 - Music: Finding Podsafe Music
Jey's Podcasting Journal
English - March 17, 2021 23:54 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Creative Commons, Royalty Free, Public Domain. What does it all mean? And what are the best ways to find music quickly for your project?
Free Music Sources:
Podcast Host Free Music Packs - https://bit.ly/2NrDcfk
Transistor.fm Free Music - https://bit.ly/2Qkc3w9
Free Music Archive – the biggest repository for free audio downloads. These songs are licensed under Creative Commons and other licenses. - https://bit.ly/3eWQ8Fz
Pixabay: Copyright-free stock music by a community of creators
YouTube Audio Library: Huge selection of royalty-free music
Incompetech: Wide-array of tracks created by solo artist, Kevin MacLeod
The Free Music Archive: Expansive, free music library for podcasters
909 Music on Soundcloud: Modern, cutting edge, podsafe songs
Musopen: Classical music tracks
CCMixter: A community music remixing site
Paid podcast music services
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic
Recording device: Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder
Recording location: My car (I was picking up my kids from school, so you might hear some cars, doors slamming, and birds chirping in the background!)
Recording format: WAV (32-bit float mono)
Editing app (and EQ): Adobe Audition
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Episode art: Canva
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file.