5280 Angel

Last week I posted on some royalty music sites, and I received a few recommendations that I wanted to visit and review. Here are a few more stock music sites for you:

Opuzz - I like the idea of variable pricing for different lengths of the track, but once you have that plus prices for different versions, prices for the entire CD, and prices for multiple CDs, it becomes a little cumbersome. The selection offered isn’t great but it is all exclusive to Opuzz. It is difficult to figure out who the artists are. No pop-up demos is nice. Narrowing selection isn’t great and is basically only by genre.

MusicBakery - I like the user ratings. Clean site. Professional. Quick, easy song demos is good. Narrowing search selection is not an option, and sorting would be appreciated. Seems to be too much overlap i.e. select “Rock” and returns “Jazz” tracks. Variable pricing, but expensive and not THAT variable. $34 bucks for a 15 second clip doesn’t make me feel warm and toasty inside. $47 will typically get you a full track. Floating shopping cart makes me want to hit someone with my car.

Youlicense - I don’t like that you have to have an account before you can see prices. I believe the license fees are negotiable. The license fee is basically agreed upon by the artist as well as the licensee, and Youlicense just takes a commission (9%) on the transaction. Artists can upload music to license to others which is nice. Many ways to narrow search like mood, style, instruments, pace…etc and I like that as well. Lose the registration requirement up front, and I’d feel better about this one.