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Now available on mixed-mode CD-ROM.
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How to Buy
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Topics On This Page:
How To Search
How To Preview
How To Purchase
Audio File Delivery
How To Search
Searching our Royalty Free Music Catalogue is simplicity itself and yet it has
been designed from the ground up to be probably the most powerful and flexible music
search facility in the business.
Here follows some basic instructions on using our music search engine but
there are a number of tips and tricks you can use to search smarter. The Search
Manual available from our Support
pages will reveal all.
Here's a brief rundown of the main seach features and how best to use them:
- Menus can be operated in any order, so start with your most important
criterea.
- For guaranteed results, operate one menu at a time and click Search
after each selection. Then if you reduce your options too far it's easy to take a
step backwards.
- You can also enter keywords to refine your search. We've made this fairly strict, so
that only relevant results are presented to you. Again, if you find there are no results, just broaden
your search term, use less keywords or resort to using only the menus. The keyword search ignores some 1, 2 and 3 letter words, again
in an attempt to reduce the possibility of poor quality results but keyphrases are supported by placing your query in "double quotes",
making it easy to locate a particular track or music style.
- The column headers can be clicked to sort the results by Title, Composer,
Tempo, Duration or Price. Useful for tempo-matching tracks or finding the longest
edits for a corporate production.
- Clicking the Reset button will cancel your current search and recall
the whole catalogue to the results area.
- Most of the the track information can be found directly in the search results, however, clicking on a track title takes you into
the track page, where you can see all the attributes for that track, links for more tracks in that genre or by that composer and
bookmarking facilities to save or share the page via your favourite social bookmarking site.
Note: Alternative edits are denoted with a suffix - important when viewing the
tracks in your shopping basket or downloading them after purchase: _30 or
_60 are commercial cuts of 30 and 60 seconds; _Lp and _St are
single Loops or Stings; _Pk is a pack of Loops and/or Stings.
How To Preview
You will find an embedded FLASH audio player directly underneath every track in the results
area. Clicking the green PLAY button will automatically play the file after a very short buffer time (around 1 second on most connections).
It will then turn into a red STOP button. There is a yellow PAUSE button to the right and a locator to show your position in the current track preview.
Be sure to stop or pause the track you are playing before playing another, as they can play simultaneously. The colour coding makes it easy to see which tracks are in play mode.
If no FLASH Player is displayed underneath each track you should see a message asking you to update your version of FLASH, if not you might want to check your
security settings which may be disabling access to streaming or downloadable files.
Previews on this site are 192kbps, MP3 files (lower quality than the downloads you
purchase) and a voice over is added for copyright protection. Previews of full
length tracks are restricted to 2 minutes.
How To Purchase
At the top of the results area there are options to view the prices in any of
three currencies. UK Pounds Sterling, US Dollars or Euros. Click the currency in
which you wish to pay, as this will also be reflected in the Shopping Cart.
Click the Buy button next to the track you want and it will be added to
your Shopping Cart. All the items in your Cart will then be displayed for you with
the total cost excluding any applicable VAT (and postage if ordering physical
products). At this point you may either Continue Shopping or Proceed to
Checkout.
Please note that you can also have your files delivered on CD-ROM as CD quality
WAV files, rather than MP3s. This has a number of benefits. See the Delivery
section for further details.
Please take time to review our basic Licensing Agreement
along with the terms of our service and refund policy.
Prior to checkout you will be asked for your personal details (name, address
etc.) or if you have purchased or registered previously with the site you can log-in
and your details will be recalled.
If you are VAT registered there is a box in which to enter your VAT registration
number. VAT is dealt with automatically depending upon where your country of
residence is. UK customers pay VAT regardless of whether or not their VAT number is
completed, as their VAT may be reclaimed through their return to Customs. Purchases
from EU customers who enter their VAT number will be zero-rated and pay the VAT on
'acquisition' in their country of residence. Buyers outside of the EU do not pay
VAT. Full details of VAT procedures can be found on the website of HM Customs and
Excise.
Proceed to Checkout and a confirmation page will display your Shopping
Cart, this time complete with any applicable Postage and VAT. Check carefully before
clicking the Proceed button which will take you to the secure servers of WorldPay
where you can enter your credit card details and complete the payment.
On acceptance of your payment a confirmation page will appear containing any
downloads you have purchased. Print this page as proof of your purchase, then
click the Download button next to each track in turn to initiate the
transfers to your computer. Do not close your browser at this stage as your
downloads cannot then be retrieved. Contact us should you have
any problems in downloading your purchases.
Delivery
Your download will arrive on your computer at the location you have designated
through your browser's preferences. Each purchase is represented by a separate .ZIP
file which must first be decompressed using Stuffit Expander or WinZip
, which are provided as an integral part of modern Mac and Windows operating
systems.
Once decompressed a folder will appear containing your audio track(s) together
with a PDF copy of the basic Royalty Free Licence Agreement. Please keep this
document safe with your tracks as further proof of purchase.
Audio files are delivered in the following formats:
Loops Packs = 44.1Khz, 16 bit, WAV files (CD Quality) for 'glitch-free' operation.
All other edits = 44.1Khz, 256 kbps, high quality MP3 files.
The MP3s are indistinguishable to most ears from the original masters, however
you can have all your files delivered as CD quality masters if you wish. Just
add the **DELIVERY ON CD** track to your Cart and we will transfer all of
your audio
files to a PC/MAC CD-ROM. You still get to download the MP3s as normal, allowing you
to use them as placeholders in your edit until the replacements arrive in the post.
This option also offers instant backup of your purchases.
Physical products will normally be dispatched the same day if ordered before
3pm. These will be delivered to your registered address, so please ensure that your
registration is up to date. Deliveries to UK addresses are sent by Royal Mail 1st
Class Recorded Delivery. All other destinations by standard Airmail (4-10 days).
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