Download 200 Free iPhone Ringtones (no strings attached) 6

We created these ringtones specifically for our iPhones so that we could have something other than the stock ringtones or the latest iTunes hip hop track blaring out of our iPhones when someone calls us. To be honest we tried to figure out how to sell these ringtones to iPhone users but it is just ...

Introducing the Partners In Rhyme Programmers 2

Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the Partners In Rhyme programming team at Harvest Technologies. We’ve come to rely on Guru and the team to realize all of our ideas and help update our websites and keep things running smoothly. Whenever we receive a feature request from our clients (which we ...

Free VFX Elements from Final Light 1

A friend of mine sent me a link to Finalight.com which is a new website that sells VFX stock footage. For those of you that may not be familiar with the term VFX is short for ‘visual effects’ and is used to describe all the computer generated effects you see in films these days. Finalight.com ...

Add Audio to Your Web Page / Blog (free and easy) 4

Adding audio to your website or blog post isn’t always as simple as it sounds. I put together a quick tutorial using my favorite little plug ‘n’ play flash embed code for adding a nice looking audio to player to a web page or blog post. Here is an example of the player: Instructions: 1. ...

Reddit Conversation re: Performing Rights Organizations 2

There’s a very funny and very informative conversation going on regarding performing rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and in this case PRS going after people singing to themselves at work (?!?!?). Check it out if you have a moment, it’s pretty enlightening; this_is_getting_ridiculous_now_recording_industry This comes as ASCAP loses their battle to charge mobile phone users ...

Top 10 Selling Tracks on Musicloops.com for September

Here are the top-ten selling royalty free music tracks from www.musicloops.com for September 2009. There’s some pretty cool stuff here: 1 Supercritical_Supercilious by Michele Vanni 2 HighLights by Dan Phillipson 3 Hope For More by Dan Phillipson 4 Live Wire by Bjorn Lynne 5 Lift Me Up by Bjorn Lynne 6 Fashion Groove by Michael ...

Music and Sound Effects for Halloween

Halloween Music and Sound Effects Here’s a quick list of our scariest audio resources for any of those last minute Halloween type projects you might be working on. Happy Halloween! Mystery & Suspense Mysterious pads and voices, exotic percussion and instruments fill this royalty free music collection called Mystery and Suspense. Check out ‘I’m Watching ...

More Free Video Background Loops: Romantic and Corporate 6

We have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 12 romantic video loops with lots of hearts and flowers plus 10 corporate video background loops with lots of charts, globes and team building images. They are available in full rez and ...

Street Fight Simulator for the iPhone

Street Fight Simulator: Punch ‘n’ Stab New Sound Effect iPhone App Sound design your fake street fights with Punch ‘n’ Stab Have fun with your friends and frighten complete strangers with these powerful sounding punches and super-gory sounding knife wounds. The sounds are triggered by throwing ‘air punches’ and ‘air stabs’. Simply hold your iPhone ...

More Free Royalty Free Music Clips 4

Besides all of the free royalty free music we give away for personal and commercial use here http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml we also like to point you to other websites and blogs that offer free royalty free music. Here are three composers that I ran across today: Taylor Howard http://www.taylorhayward.org/recordings.htm Some very nice ambient / classical piano recordings ...

Pump Audio Demands (A lot) More Money From Their Composers 8

Pump Audio has sent out the notice posted below to all of their contributors. It basically says that from now on their split will be 35% to the artists and 65% to Getty Images. It would be surprising if this was a Pump Audio decision but it is definitely not surprising that this is a ...

GUNS! New Sound Effect iPhone App

GUNS! new sound effect iphone app GUNS! is a collection of 24 different gun sounds including shotguns, machine guns, pistols and rifles from Partners In Rhyme and Lynne Publishing. The sounds are available via buttons on four separate panels and includes loading and racking weapon sounds giving you the ability to play a variety of ...

New Preview Player on Partners In Rhyme

The New PIR Preview Player Last month we announced our new preview player for the musicloops.com site and this month we have a new preview player for the Partners In Rhyme royalty free music collections site. This new preview player was also created to address customer requests and complaints from the previous player. The new ...

My New Guitar 1

Check it out. I’ve been passing this guitar in the window of Guitarland, the guitar shop just down the street from where I live, for about a month now. I finally justified buying it and MonaoLia says if I get it I have to create a new collection of guitar music to put out on ...

Free Scary Halloween Sound Effects

I created a new Horror / Scary / Halloween free sound effects page on the main Partners In Rhyme site. It has genres in the free area like Horror Ambience, Torture Chamber, Haunted House plus Screams, Wicked Laughs, Ghosts and Monsters. All free and ready for you to download. Click Here For Scary Halloween Sounds ...

Royalty Free Music Discounts, Deals and Freebies

We’ve made it super easy to see all of our deals, discounts and specials in one place so you don’t have to search through the entire site to find bargains on royalty free music and sound effects. We will be updating this every month with new specials. The really cool special this month is the ...

Richard Quest Remix (Deep Hypnotic State)

Christian Bale Techno Remix

I just couldn’t pass up a chance to remix the Christian Bale rant. His voice is so melodic and rhythmic when he is going insane. It’s perfect for a remix. This is something we through together in a couple of days just to get something out there before we leave for Paris.

Interview on ‘The Score’ Website

Check out my interview on the new ‘The Score’ website. http://filmandgamecomposers.com/blog/?p=196 Emmett Cooke has rebuilt his filmandgamecomposer.com website and it is looking really cool. The home page is now dedicated to composer interviews. http://filmandgamecomposers.com/

New Composer: Emmett Cooke

We have a new composer uploading tracks to www.musicloops.com, his name is Emmett Cooke and his style is very unique and well suited to a variety of genres. His compositions are deceiving in that they sound simple but the melodies are complex and very effective at evoking specific emotions. Loneliness, hope, longing, joy. You can ...

youLicense, soundsnap and audiomicro 4

I’ve been noticing that a few audio websites are now changing their business models and going with subscription. Soundsnap.com Soundsnap is a great place to download royalty free music clips and sound effects and was originally an altruistic concept that I guess eventually had to fall to capitalist ideals. Soundsnap will soon be changing to ...

New Composer: Dimitry Lifshitz

Dimitri Lifshitz is one of our favorite new composers and he is uploading some awesome music to musicloops.com right now. I think the Alt Rock track Feel Alive is probably my favorite, although if you need a super-funky 70′s/techno track try Get The Funk Out is pretty cool. Dimitri also has a sensitive side with ...

Royalty Free Jazz Music from Alan Marchand

We’d like to welcome our newest composer to the Partners In Rhyme family, Alan Marchand is adding his huge catalog of traditional jazz to the www.musicloops.com catalog. A few of my current favorites are: Summer Solstice with its steamy, romantic sax melody. Down Memory Lane with its upright bass and 1930′s feel. and of course ...

Digital Music 2.0 (the last day)

The day started (for me) with a panel discussion on digital music and mobile distribution. This was in a separate room from the other discussion regarding podcasting. The mobile discussion didn’t have translation and the entire panel was speaking in Spanish. It was basically an hour long Spanish comprehension test for me. I was then ...

Digital Music 2.0

Here is an excerpt of some of the discussions resulting from the panels on the first day of Digital Music 2.0: We need a Networked Music Business. We need a Web-Native Music Business. What does Music2.0 look like: 1. Respect for the Creators and the Users, first and foremost 2. Based on Access first, then ...