We’ve been really hard at work behind the scenes recently, with a major site re-organisation and one of the first updates to be implemented is to make life more simple for you!

Our new entirely Royalty Free, single Blanket Media License means that once you purchase a track, you are covered for just about any media usage (Film, TV, Radio, Internet, Multimedia, CD, DVD) as long as you use the music within a production (combined with images, video or  a voice-over). You are also covered for “in store” music as well as “music on hold”.

1 License, 1  Price,  Multiple Uses –  No more confusing licenses and prices.

Full details can be viewed here.

More improvements and updates coming very soon

Well, we’re onto the new faster, bigger server and it may have been a bumpy ride but it has enabled us to add much more music and I’m really proud of the latest tracks. It’s honestly some of the best royalty free music I’ve come across (and no, I didn’t write it myself!).

New composers Michael Taylor from Australia and Guy Zerafa from Canada have provided us with some of the highest quality scoring I’ve come across which is perfect for TV, Film and video use.

Guy is an award winning film composer and a wonderful guitarist, expert in many styles. His tracks simply ooze quality. Listen to these and you’ll see what I mean:

Long Ride Subtle Latin American influenced track with acoustic guitar and violin.
Things We’ve Said Louisiana  style blues with electric guitar, fretless bass and harmonica.
No One Knows String Quartet

We’ve also added a Hollywood Style Scores package to the Track Packages section. This is a collection of 10 Hollywood style orchestral tracks and is highly recommended.

We have lots of important updates and improvements which we’ll be rolling out very shortly and we’ll post the details here first.

You know those really frustrating weeks where nothing goes right?!
Anyway……….
For the diligent amongst you, you may have noticed some “ghosts in the machine” at SMARTassMusic this week. On Friday I noticed some missing tables in the DB, which was very strange and possibly due to a server error. We got this fixed as soon as possible and on Monday we started with a big server upgrade to give us more than double the space and a faster server.
Unfortunately this coincided with more DB tables dissappearing and the server upgrade  meant that we couldn’t access the system to correct this until the transfer was complete. This took all week!!!!!.

The site was in fact fully functional for almost the entire time although access to many tracks was impossible through the searh facility. This did not make me a happy bunny (

I’m glad to say that everything has been restored and process of moving to a new, bigger, faster server is now completed.
Personally, I want this site to provide superior quality content, quickly and easily and believe me, any downtime frustrates me hugely, as those around me will testify!

Sincere apologies if anybody was inconvenienced but everything is back working and with far more resources.
Actually we have big improvements which are already under way and we should be rolling them out soon

More great music is waiting to be released very soon.