The perfect soundtrack can really make a video come together, so YouTube is making it much easier to pick an audio backdrop for your footage.
YouTube launched an audio library on Wednesday, featuring more than 150 royalty-free instrumental tracks to choose from. The video manager feature allows you to peruse options based on mood, genre (from rock to classical), instrument and duration. Users can download the tracks as 320 kbps MP3 files and add them to videos.
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Anyone who downloads the tracks can use them for creative purposes -- they're not just for videos uploaded to YouTube.
"We searched far and wide for musicians to create tracks for us and ended up finding co-conspirators in multiple places: an acquaintance down in L.A., music houses across the country and a well-known music producer in Brooklyn," YouTube wrote on its official blog. "And it turns out the latter produced albums for Phish and Sean Lennon."
For a full look at the audio library, click here.
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