Sometimes, it’s not obvious, that you better use music from a stock collection like kabgig.com, but let’s break it down into a few points. In this article, we’re going to discover 5 royalty-free music usage advantages.

#1 You can use it over and over again.

• Of course, it depends on the type of license that you purchase. In some libraries, you might get an exclusive license and fully own the track. It’s similar to the situation when you hire a producer and musicians and book a recording studio for your media production. Usually, it’s considered as a work for hire and you are the owner of the final product (music track). But it should be specified in an agreement.
• Some licenses let you use track only once. For example, only for one video. Basically, it means, that you have to purchase the license again if you want to use a particular track in another project.
• But there are also licenses that allow you to pay once and obtain a permit for using track an infinite amount of times. You don’t own the copyright for this music and this track can be used by other people in their projects too. Nevertheless, you can use it many times. For example, music in the vlog intro. This license model is used in our music library kabgig.com. You just pay one time and use the track as many times as needed.

#2 Lower cost.

Purchasing music in a stock library is much cheaper than

• Hiring people and creating tracks from scratch. For example, royalty-free composition prices can start with a couple of bucks to 50$ or higher, depending on the scale of the project. On the other hand, hiring an experienced guitar player for a studio session alone might be over 200-300$.
• Trying to license tracks from a label or major artist. In this case, only the sky is the limit. Licensing The Beatles or Adele track for a video project might have an astronomical price.
• You can buy in bulk by albums/collections. This is very convenient if you constantly need music of a particular genre (corporate, rock) or format (intro, bumper). You can save a lot this way.
• Going dark side and then dealing with lawyers. Definitely do not recommend this, because later on, you just spend more time and money anyway. It’s easier and faster to pay a small price in the beginning.

And here’s the next of 5 royalty-free music usage points, which corresponds to what we were just discussing.

#3 Time saving

1. Purchasing royalty-free music is a matter of 5-10 minutes, compared to writing a track from scratch.

You just browse the tracklist. You can filter music by genre or mood. You download a preview of the track that you like (highly recommend doing that before purchase), and try to fit it into your project.

If it works…

• add to cart
• checkout
• download high resolution .wav files without watermarks.
• done!

2. Now, compare it to creating tracks from scratch.

You have to:

• Browse for music anyway, because you have to find reference tracks
• Hire producer
• Hire musicians
• Book studio
• Ping pong back and forth in order to get suitable results (because people have different visions of what sounds “happy, aggressive, or moody”)

Long story short, it might take days/weeks/months to finish the project.

3. About dealing with the label. We are not even going to touch on this topic. It’s way beyond theme we’re discussing here.

#4 Wider choice

The stock library has hundreds of tracks ready to use. So you definitely have some options here. Again, compared to writing a track from scratch, you’re not tied to one track/result, that you haven’t even got yet.

By the way, you can not be sure 100%, that you will like the result. But you can evaluate a royalty-free track and try it in your project because it’s already produced.

#5 Easy to replace.

This point closely corresponds to the previous. Let’s say you went the fancy way and hired a music producer, musicians, studio, etc. They created a very nice music track for your project. But your creative director says, that track doesn’t work in the context of the project and needs to be replaced, but you already paid to the studio, producer, and musicians!

Imagine what a headache you get in this situation. Work is already done. You can not ask for money back for creative work, right? Or can?:)) Let me know in the comments. I really want to hear some opinions.

With royalty-free music, it’s easy to find another suitable track, download watermarked preview and try it in the project. You can do that an infinite number of times.

Even if the track is purchased already, you can always get another one, because the cost of failure is so low.

Hope this article of 5 royalty-free music usage advantages will help get rid of doubts and make a decision.

Happy creating! And make sure to get a free music pack for every occasion bellow.