Q: What plan do I need?

Long Answer: Not sure what subscription is right for you? Here's a quick breakdown of our plans and the type of content they cover. Personal Want to elevate your personal content such as social media posts, school projects, or family videos? Then the Personal plan is perfect. Enjoy unlimited access to our music and sound effects — plus new songs every week — and publish to all your favorite social media platforms. Get monetization and copyright clearance for one YouTube channel. Pro If you're a freelancer producing commercial work for clients or need to monetize multiple channels, Pro is your plan. Enjoy everything included in Personal, plus post-production features like extensions for Premiere Pro and Frame.io. Pro customers can also monetize and clear up to 5 YouTube channels as well as get access to additional ContentID features to support client videos. Pro also includes our Project features, with time-saving workflow tools, and stems for every track. Pro covers content produced by individuals for commercial use, like digital ads and broadcast. Pro Plus Looking for stock video? Pro Plus gets you access to our catalog of 100K stock video clips. Choose from HD to 8k and find the perfect resolution for your project. Enterprise Working in house at a company and need coverage for global distribution or comprehensive legal protection? Enterprise is designed for you. You'll get everything in Pro, along with multiple team seats, custom contract terms, role-based access, a dedicated account manager, API access, and up to $1 million in indemnity. Our other plans cover individual creators, while Enterprise protects your organization. Still have questions? Get in touch.

Q: When do I need a business-level license?

Long Answer: When you're creating in-house for an organization, you need a business-level license. This protects your organization, clears your content for global distribution, and provides you with $1 million in indemnity (aka coverage against legal liability). Our consumer plans (Personal and Pro) only cover individuals, not organizations. When you download a song under either of those plans, your name is on the license — not your business. These licenses are non-transferable, so if you leave the company, you're still legally liable for the content you made during that time. To ensure your organization has all the protection it needs, we recommend our Enterprise plan. You'll get everything you need to safely distribute content under your business's name, plus loads of other features to improve your workflow and collaboration. Learn more about Enterprise

Q: Once I download a track, can I use it multiple times for multiple projects?

Short Answer: Yes. Long Answer: As part of a Subscription License, you may download unlimited content and use songs, sound effects and videos in as many projects as you'd like during the length of your subscription, subject to our Terms of Use. You do not need to re-download any content in order to use content again during the length of your subscription. If a Proof of License is needed for multiple projects, new license documentation can be downloaded any time during your subscription from your Downloads Page in My Media. If you choose to cancel your subscription, you cannot use our content in new projects. In addition, for each use of music that is broadcast on network/cable television, a cue sheet is required. When purchasing a Lifetime License, you are generating a license for use in any of your projects at any time, subject to our Terms of Use. However, for each use of the content that is broadcast on network/cable television, a cue sheet is required.

Q: Can I re-download or use downloaded content after my subscription expires?

Short Answer: No. Long Answer: If you choose to cancel your subscription, you cannot re-download or use our content in new projects. If you purchase a Lifetime License for a song, you are generating a license for use in any of your projects, at any time, subject to our Terms of Use.

Q: Can I cancel whenever? What about refunds?

Long Answer: You are able to cancel your account at any time. Requests to cancel within the first 30 days of the initial subscription period may be entitled to a refund if you have not used any of our content. A refund will not be issued for failure to cancel your account before the billing period renews, and annual cancellations are not entitled to a prorated refund. You will not be eligible for any prorated refund of any portion of the subscription fee paid for during the subscription period. Should you believe a refund or credit to your account is deserved, contact our Customer Support department at help@soundstripe.com — we will review this request promptly.

Q: How often do you add new content?

Long Answer: We add music to our library every Friday; typically about 100 songs are added each month. Our sound effects catalog is updated quarterly; generally 5,000+ at a time. Our video catalog is continuously curated and growing to provide the most relevant and up-to-date content for our customers.

Q: Do you have a formal legal license agreement to look at?

Long Answer: Yes, our Terms of Use serve as our license agreement. You can view our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here.

Q: What are your restrictions?

Short Answer: Nudity and live performances. Long Answer: All of the content on our site is copyrighted material, so altering the integrity of the song (including adding vocals or additional instruments) is strictly prohibited. However, you may shorten, loop, or fade into another track to fit your project.

Q: Can I use music from Soundstripe to create my own song?

Short Answer: No. Long Answer: All of the content on our site is copyrighted material, so altering the integrity of the song (including adding vocals or additional instruments) is strictly prohibited. However, you may shorten, loop, or fade into another track to fit your project.

Q: Can I use Soundstripe content for my podcast?

Short Answer: No. Long Answer: Music may be used for podcasts, too! Songs and sound effects can be downloaded once and used as many times as you like throughout your active subscription. If your subscription expires, you no longer have the rights to use downloaded content in future podcast episodes. When purchasing a Lifetime License, you generate just one license for the song allowing you to use the song in multiple podcast episodes, in perpetuity.

Question 1

What plan do I need?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: Not sure what subscription is right for you? Here's a quick breakdown of our plans and the type of content they cover.

Personal

Want to elevate your personal content such as social media posts, school projects, or family videos? Then the Personal plan is perfect. Enjoy unlimited access to our music and sound effects — plus new songs every week — and publish to all your favorite social media platforms. Get monetization and copyright clearance for one YouTube channel.

Pro

If you're a freelancer producing commercial work for clients or need to monetize multiple channels, Pro is your plan. Enjoy everything included in Personal, plus post-production features like extensions for Premiere Pro and Frame.io.

Pro customers can also monetize and clear up to 5 YouTube channels as well as get access to additional ContentID features to support client videos. Pro also includes our Project features, with time-saving workflow tools, and stems for every track.

Pro covers content produced by individuals for commercial use, like digital ads and broadcast.

Pro Plus

Looking for stock video? Pro Plus gets you access to our catalog of 100K stock video clips. Choose from HD to 8k and find the perfect resolution for your project.

Enterprise

Working in house at a company and need coverage for global distribution or comprehensive legal protection? Enterprise is designed for you.

You'll get everything in Pro, along with multiple team seats, custom contract terms, role-based access, a dedicated account manager, API access, and up to $1 million in indemnity. Our other plans cover individual creators, while Enterprise protects your organization.

Still have questions? Get in touch.

Question 2

When do I need a business-level license?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: When you're creating in-house for an organization, you need a business-level license. This protects your organization, clears your content for global distribution, and provides you with $1 million in indemnity (aka coverage against legal liability).

Our consumer plans (Personal and Pro) only cover individuals, not organizations. When you download a song under either of those plans, your name is on the license — not your business. These licenses are non-transferable, so if you leave the company, you're still legally liable for the content you made during that time.

To ensure your organization has all the protection it needs, we recommend our Enterprise plan. You'll get everything you need to safely distribute content under your business's name, plus loads of other features to improve your workflow and collaboration.

Learn more about Enterprise

Question 3

Once I download a track, can I use it multiple times for multiple projects?

Accepted Answer

Short Answer: Yes.

Long Answer: As part of a Subscription License, you may download unlimited content and use songs, sound effects and videos in as many projects as you'd like during the length of your subscription, subject to our Terms of Use. You do not need to re-download any content in order to use content again during the length of your subscription. If a Proof of License is needed for multiple projects, new license documentation can be downloaded any time during your subscription from your Downloads Page in My Media.

If you choose to cancel your subscription, you cannot use our content in new projects. In addition, for each use of music that is broadcast on network/cable television, a cue sheet is required.

When purchasing a Lifetime License, you are generating a license for use in any of your projects at any time, subject to our Terms of Use. However, for each use of the content that is broadcast on network/cable television, a cue sheet is required.

Question 4

Can I re-download or use downloaded content after my subscription expires?

Accepted Answer

Short Answer: No.

Long Answer: If you choose to cancel your subscription, you cannot re-download or use our content in new projects.

If you purchase a Lifetime License for a song, you are generating a license for use in any of your projects, at any time, subject to our Terms of Use.

Question 5

Can I cancel whenever? What about refunds?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: You are able to cancel your account at any time. Requests to cancel within the first 30 days of the initial subscription period may be entitled to a refund if you have not used any of our content. A refund will not be issued for failure to cancel your account before the billing period renews, and annual cancellations are not entitled to a prorated refund. You will not be eligible for any prorated refund of any portion of the subscription fee paid for during the subscription period. Should you believe a refund or credit to your account is deserved, contact our Customer Support department at help@soundstripe.com — we will review this request promptly.

Question 6

How often do you add new content?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: We add music to our library every Friday; typically about 100 songs are added each month. Our sound effects catalog is updated quarterly; generally 5,000+ at a time. Our video catalog is continuously curated and growing to provide the most relevant and up-to-date content for our customers.

Question 7

Do you have a formal legal license agreement to look at?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: Yes, our Terms of Use serve as our license agreement. You can view our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here.

Question 8

What are your restrictions?

Accepted Answer

Short Answer: Nudity and live performances.

Long Answer: All of the content on our site is copyrighted material, so altering the integrity of the song (including adding vocals or additional instruments) is strictly prohibited. However, you may shorten, loop, or fade into another track to fit your project.

Question 9

Can I use music from Soundstripe to create my own song?

Accepted Answer

Short Answer: No.

Long Answer: All of the content on our site is copyrighted material, so altering the integrity of the song (including adding vocals or additional instruments) is strictly prohibited. However, you may shorten, loop, or fade into another track to fit your project.

Question 10

Can I use Soundstripe content for my podcast?

Accepted Answer

Short Answer: No.

Long Answer: Music may be used for podcasts, too! Songs and sound effects can be downloaded once and used as many times as you like throughout your active subscription. If your subscription expires, you no longer have the rights to use downloaded content in future podcast episodes.

When purchasing a Lifetime License, you generate just one license for the song allowing you to use the song in multiple podcast episodes, in perpetuity.

Question 11

What is YouTube's Content ID?

Accepted Answer

Long Answer: Copyright owners can use a system called Content ID to easily identify and manage their content on YouTube. Videos uploaded to YouTube are scanned against a database of files that have been submitted to YouTube by content owners.

Copyright owners get to decide what happens when content in a video on YouTube matches a work they own. When a match is found, the video gets a Content ID claim. Copyright owners can then choose to monetize the video by running ads.

Learn more about Content ID on YouTube.

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