Smartsound Royalty Free Music License Info

Smartsound has two license options for our individual tracks: Extended License and Widest License (custom license). To see a chart comparing the different licenses, please click here.

Royalty Free Music purchased from the Smartsound web site is additionally licensed for One Seat of Sonicfire Pro software per user. (For legacy Quicktracks Annual licenses or subscriptions contact us). For use with the Sonicfire Pro software a single user may use music purchased on up to 2 different computers provided they are the sole user of those computers.

All albums, album packs and singles packs are offered using the Extended License. Should you be interested in upgrading any individual track from an album you own or a pack you’ve purchased to the Widest License, contact us for a quote and explain the scope of your project to us to obtain a Widest License.

Producers, editors and media creators working in and from Europe may be subject to different requirements for the use of music in their countries. Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) in Europe have different regulations regarding the collection of royalties than do their American and Canadian counterparts and are not under our control.

Certain albums will be designated as “PRO Free". This means that this music has been specifically created to exclude control by European and other foreign nations Performance Rights Organizations (PROs). Smartsound music, even without the PRO Free designation, is almost never flagged by the European PROs as Smartsound’s music license in general is very broad (see license). This "PRO free" option may be good for you if your focus (over and above the web) will be Europe or other countries outside the U.S. Smartsound does not know whether other national collecting societies can make demands. If required the licensee should clarify the legal circumstances of the respective collecting society prior to the actual use of the compositions.

If you reside outside the US, SmartSound is granting you a direct license, subject to the terms and conditions of SmartSound’s End User License Agreement, you may also be subject to the rules and practices of the PRO in your local territory.

For American and Canadian producers who are offering films and media for exhibit or sale in Europe most PROs there do not treat the music any differently than in the US and there are rarely any issues. If an issue does arise we can supply you with documentation indicating your valid use and license. Again, this is extremely rare as our customers rarely report any problems at all.

For producers, editors, media creators, etc. working from and in European countries other requirements and regulations may apply. Please see our list of Smartsound GEMA-free music. This is music specifically cleared for use by foreign media creators in these territories. Again, this applies only to media creators from those foreign countries.

We also offer an Annual subscription, which uses our Cloud-based Quicktracks technology. The Annual subscription license is similar to, but has a few differences from, our Extended License. Please contact us for more information.