How do I purchase music?

1. Listen to the tracks by going through the categories to find the music you want to purchase. You can purchase individual tracks or multiple versions, or both together as well as collections.
2. Click "Add to Cart " button beside each track or collection. A new page will open up showing you what you have selected and the cost. You can either click "continue shopping" to add more tracks, or "checkout". You will be prompted to enter your information and you will then be sent to a secure page where you can make your payment with a credit card or paypal.
3. You must hit the "DOWNLOAD MY TRACKS" button in order to complete the transaction and be taken to the download page where you will immediately get your tracks. We will verify your order by sending you a confirmation by email, along with a download key for your records. You will then be able to log in to the "Download Manager" section of the web site with your download key. Any tracks you have purchased will be listed there. 

What is Royalty free music and Copyright free music?
Royalty free music / Copyright free music (or buy-out music) is any music that does not require on-going fees or royalties paid to the seller of the music, commonly referred to as "sync fees" or "synchronization fees". Some companies will charge additional sync fees depending on what the music is used for. The user pays a one-time fee for unlimited usage of the music. You never pay us another penny! Our composers will however get royalties depending on where their music is used. Composers get paid royalties through performing rights organizations such as BMI, ASCAP, and SOCAN. Television networks pay fees to these organizations, who then pay the composers. Under normal circumstances a tv producer or film maker who buys royalty free music does not have to pay royalties to these organizations. If the music is being used in a tv show, the producer will provide a cue sheet with all of the music information including the composer, name and length of cue, performing rights organization, etc. to the broadcaster, but will not be required to pay any additional fees. For more information on cue sheets, click here.

What is not Royalty free music?
Any popular songs or songs that have singing (Other than Public domain songs) are generally not Royalty free. This means that in order to use a popular song in any genre, you would have to negotiate with the publisher as well as the performers of the song. For example; Microsoft paid Madonna aproximately $10,000.000.00usd to use her song "Ray Of Light" in one of their television commercials. This is why more and more people are using Stock Music Store every day. 

Why are there prices beside individual tracks when I am browsing collections?
Collections are made up of a number of individual items. By clicking the "Add to cart" icon beside the collection description, you are purchasing all of the idividual items in the particular collection at the same time. You will be receiving all of these items at a much reduced cost by buying them in a collection. However, you still can buy them individually even though you are browsing collections.

Why do some tracks appear in more than one collection?
The reason that tracks sometimes appear in more than one collection is that we make up collections that will appeal to a specific use and certain tracks qualify for more than one. For example, "Flavors Of India", has a wide range of Indian tracks. "Sitar Magic" is a different collection that only contains tracks with Sitar. There are a couple of tracks that meet the criteria for both collections.

What about audio quality?
Our preview demos are medium quality mp-3 format. Our purchased downloads are full broadcast quality 320kps MP3 format.

Why 320kps MP3?
We chose 320kps as our forrmat of choice because of the size and quality. Our very experienced audio engineers did extensive testing of all popular audio formats and found that 320kps MP3s stood up to all other formats in audio quality and at a much smaller size. This makes downloading very fast and storing much easier. We also found that you could hear differences in sound quality when using a bit rate that is lower than 320kps.

How long are tracks?
The lengths of all our tracks are posted above the "Play Demo" buttons. Typically all of our "Full Track" versions are at least two minutes long. Our "Edited Versions" usually include at least a :15, :30, :60 and ID version.

Why are the MP3 files so big?
We sell our music at the highest MP3 quality, which affects the size. Some software programs and websites require smaller MP3 files. This is easy to change. Just convert your purchased MP3s to a smaller bit rate that is acceptable for the format you are using. Programs like iTunes and Windows Media Converter work perfectly for doing conversions like this.

Do all tracks come with a sting/bumper version?
We have a large selection/category of stings and bumpers, but almost every track that isn't in that section also comes with a sting/bumper version. If you don't find what you need in our Sting/Bumper section, check other sections as most tracks come with a short version.

Do I need a License ID for usage on Youtube, Google Video, etc.?
By purchasing music from StockMusicStore.com, you are agreeing to the terms of our blanket license and therefore do not need any form of License ID to use our music as part of your Youtube video. Stock Music Store exclusively owns 100 percent of the music on our website and grants the purchaser a non-exclusive license for this type of usage. You will however need to supply our website URL, a link to our license, track title and composer information.

How does background music for restaurants, offices and retail stores work?
Our license grants you the rights to use our music as background/on hold in public areas, such as retail, offices and restaurants or as part of a public viewing or broadcast of your production.
 This license covers up to ten retail/office locations for music on hold/background music services. Please contact us if you have requirements that fit outside of these parameters.

What is "Music On Hold" & MOH?
Music On Hold is basically music for customers to listen to while on hold. MOH stands for Music On Hold. We have a full section of tracks that don't include cutdown versions for this purpose. You can buy any track on our site and use it for Music On Hold.

What are cue sheets and why are they important?
Cue sheets are forms that broadcasters and producers need in order to deliver projects. The cue sheet includes information such as name of cue (music), composer, length of cue and project information. As stated in “What is royalty free music”, these forms do not have any financial implications on the purchaser, but rather the broadcaster of your project. Cue sheets are important to composers because they enable them to receive royalties from their performing rights organizations, which in turn allows them to keep writing this great music that you use for your projects. So please respect our composers. Do your duty and fill them out.

Can I return music that I’ve purchased?
No. You can audition every single track before you buy. Once the music is downloaded, we cannot refund your money.

What about security?
We use paypal for your complete security and peace of mind when using credit cards.

What about my privacy?
We will not sell or give away your personal information under any circumstances.

Do I own the music I purchase?
The music remains the property of Stock Music Store. What you do purchase is a license to use the music for your purposes in accordance with our license agreement.

What is a License Agreement?
A license is only for your usage of the music. Stock Music Store’s music may not be re-sold, transferred, bartered, traded, shared, leased, or given away to any other party and the license may not be transferred. The license agreement prohibits you from taking credit in any way for the creation of such said music no matter how it is used.

What type of license do I get?
All music purchased from us comes with an unlimited license for use in television production, radio or audio production, commercials, film, or multimedia projects. It is completely royalty-free and can be used over and over for in your projects.

Click here to read full license.

What is Royalty free music used for?

Stock Music Store .com music is used for advertising, television and film, logo I.D’s, website design, You Tube, podcasts, video gaming, corporate videos, animation, infomercials, live theatre shows, movie maker, iMovie, production background music, buy out music, music on hold, sports music loops, production music, copyright free, royalty free music, corporate presentations, stock music, powerpoint, flash and virtually any place that music exists.