[MUSIC] In this video, we're going to explore how to find and use music tracks that you can include in your digital story, making sure that they are copyright free, or licensed under Creative Commons. I will demonstrate how to find music tracks on one of my favorite websites, Jamendo, how to identify the creative Commons License of a track, and how to give proper attribution to the owner of the music track. Music can be an important element of a digital story. When properly selected and used, a music track can help set the mood of the story. For example, this music can be used to create a happy mood. [MUSIC] Music can also help place viewers in different time periods. So, for example, if you want to tell a story that takes places in the 1920s or 30s, this music could be very useful. [MUSIC] Music can also be used to emphasize the events of a story, as in this example of music that adds a dramatic tone. [MUSIC] However, buying copyrighted music can be costly, and many schools do not have a budget to pay for music tracks. So where can you find copyright-free music? You can use your favorite search engine to look for music tracks, but not all of the music you find will be free, or without copyright restrictions. Fortunately, Creative Commons licenses allow us to use music without having to buy songs, as long as we give the proper attribution and follow the guidelines that have been set forth under the license. There are many sites on the Internet where music tracks that are licensed under Creative Commons may be found. We recommend the one shown here, and next, we will explore Jamendo in more detail. So, now we're going to go to the website Jamendo Music, and you can either use a search engine and type in the word Jamendo, or you can type in the URL jamendo.com, and either one of those should take you to the main page of the Jamendo website. And, you'll notice down here there's a button that says start listening for free, so we will click on that. And we're going to use the search tool, which is at the top right of the screen, and click on the little magnifying glass. And that should bring up a search field. And we'll type in the word instrumental. There we go, and then hit Enter on your keyboard. And that will bring up just a few instrumental tracks, and you can see that there are little play buttons associated with these, so you can click on play to hear what it sounds like. Well, I definitely don't like that one, so I'll try the next one. [MUSIC] And I like that one much better. So, I'll pause that and you can see the name of the tracks. You can see the name of the artist underneath the track name. You can see the length of time that each music track will last for, and there are some other options here. But the one I want to click on is the name of the track, and that will take me to a screen that shows me just this track's information. And you can see that there is a download option down here, a little down arrow. And if you mouse over it, it will show you that you can download it, so I'll click on that. And at this point, there are a couple of things that are important to notice. One is it shows you the Creative Commons license here, and if you mouse over, you'll see that this has a BY designation. And this one has an SA or Share Alike designation, so this means that you're able to use these tracks, as long as you give attribution to the artist and if you also allow other people to use it in the same manner that you did. And you have the option to download for free, an MP3 quality music track, and that's different than the high quality audio file that you need to pay for. So, this one should be good enough for our uses. So we'll just click on that, and then you can save it wherever you want. I'll just click into a folder that I've created called Music Tracks and it gives me the name, the artist, and the name of the track, and I'll click save. And then I can bring that up in a music player. [MUSIC] And I'm using VLC. [MUSIC] And there it is. And it sounds fine. It sounds very good for projects that we might want to use music in. So I'll stop that, and then go back to the search tool page. And, you may want to find more tracks. You could use different terms, so if we type in piano, let's say. And this is a good time to remind ourselves that instrumental music without words generally sounds better in projects where there's narration. So when you're talking, you don't want music with words in the background because that will distract from your voice. And so you can try different search terms. Let's just click on one and hear what this sounds like, piano one sounds like it might be good. [MUSIC] That's a nice one, so if we're interested in that we can click on it, we can go to see what kind of Creative Comments license this has. And again, it has the BY designation, the non-commercial designation, and the Share Like designation, so this would be good for us, and we can click on the download if we want. And you can even string together search terms. You could put in for example, piano instrumental. That might bring up some different choices that you could then try and see what you like. And it's probably not a bad idea to experiment with different search terms. New Age for example is one that should provide some good choices. And, you can sometimes look at the image here and get a pretty good idea that this one's probably going to be a little bit more quiet and subdued than something like this, for example. But the best thing to do is just click on the play button and try it out and see what it sounds like, and then if you like it [MUSIC] click on the name, check out the license by Creative Commons designations, and if meets your needs, then click on the download button, and save the files to your computer, and use them in your digital media projects. We suggest that for any music tracks you use to create a credit slide that will appear at the end of your digital story that contains the attribution information, such as in the example shown here. And you can see that we've just included a simple black slide with white text that says the following music was used in this digital story. You can change the language and say anything in your own words that you think is appropriate. But, be sure to include the name of the music track, the name of the artist, the specific type of Creative Comments licenses. You can see here in parentheses it says CC for Creative Commons and then has the letters BY, NC, and SA for attribution, non-commercial, and share alike, the type of licenses that these tracks contained. And then at the end, there are links to the location on jamendo.com where the tracks were found. So, this is an excellent way for you to fulfill your obligation of providing attribution to the artist who created the music, who gave you permission to use it for free in your digital story. [MUSIC]
