CSS Music Congratulates Client!

CSS Music salutes and congratulates Mike Valinsky, the writers, cast, and crew of their web series, "Poker Night" on their being included in the preliminary top 50 at the LA Web Series Festival 2013.

Keep Up The Good Work Mike

CSS Music Adds Seven New Royalty-Free Volumes

CSS Music, leading royalty-free music, background music and sound effects library, announced today the release of seven royalty free music volumes to add to its extensive library of more than 12,000 tracks.
The new additions include two long awaited offerings from film composer, David Wurst, “Super Themes Volume 71 – Swampbilly Rockers” and “Super Themes Volume 72 – Club Life II (Urban Night Life)”. The copyright free music provider also debuted MAX TRAX library’s “Docustyles I and II” and “New Marketplace”, a blending of the Light Industrial, Light Activity/Travel and New Age genres along with “Chart Rockin’” and “Modern Heart” from the Repro-file Plus Library.
CSS Marketing Director Mike Fuller expresses his excitement for the company’s growing library, "We're very proud to once again have two fabulous volumes for our Super Themes library from feature film composer, David Wurst. All of our writers bring a special expertise to their contributions. Some come from radio, some from network television and animation while others work in education and information technology.”
After 30 years in the music production business CSS Music continues to thrive, positioning itself as a go-to source for quality, royalty free music. Boasting one of the most expansive libraries in the production industry, CSS Music regularly provides unique music for the AV/Video and Broadcast Communities. CSS Marketing Director Mike Fuller attributes the company’s success to their eagerness to appeal to customer needs, “Because music trends are a moving target, we necessarily keep our ears to the ground to get a sense of what our communities want and need in the library music they license from us. Fortunately, we have the depth in our composer group to cover musical genres from varying perspectives."
All seven volumes are now available for download in .wav (44.1khz / 48khz), .aif (44.1khz), Apple Lossless (44.1khz) and .mp3 (320kbs) formats. Music is also available on virtual CDs (Q-Disc), CD, DVD, Hard Drive.
About CSS Music:
Established in 1982 in Los Angeles, CA, CSS Music is a royalty-free music company with a library of more than 12,000 tracks. CSS Music provides royalty free music and sound FX for film, video and television producers. CSS is dedicated to working with music supervisors, editors, directors and producers to meet their creative needs. For more information on CSS Music visit http://www.cssmusic.com/.

CSS Music Implements Digital Fingerprinting to Combat Piracy

CSS Music, a leader in royalty free background music and sound effects, announced today that it will retain premier audio monitoring service, Tunesat, LLC (New York), to track the use of its music. CSS Music joins the world’s largest music publishers and libraries in its continued partnership with Tunesat.
CSS Music plans to use Tunesat’s diligent tracking in the fight against music piracy and copyright infringement which have become increasingly prevalent since the mid-nineties. As one of the first royalty free libraries to advocate for the use of this digital fingerprinting technology, CSS music affirms its place as forerunner in production music.
“The days of piracy and rampant copyright infringement are numbered, says CSS Music Marketing Director, Mike Fuller. But beyond catching cheaters using music illegally and unethically, audio fingerprint music recognition technology will soon make the end user’s task of finding the right music much, much easier.”
The implementation of music recognition technology has many applications including:
• Complex search capabilities that accurately match end users with the music needed for a given project.
• Effective gathering of evidence to combat copyright infringement, even when music is “buried” under layers of dialog, sound effects and noise.
• Allows content owner to properly monetize use of music.
CSS Music Marketing Director Mike Fuller, details the benefits of digital fingerprinting, “Much of the drudgery associated with reporting music use will also be eliminated. But end user piracy and infringement is only one aspect of intellectual property protection. Soon copyright ownership will be easier to determine in an environment where musical compositions are often submitted to multiple libraries on a non-exclusive basis and then re-titled. Even at the music production stage unlicensed sampling of copyrighted music can be detected. It will be a brave new world, not so much to be feared but to be embraced and used by all—producers and end users of music.”
CSS Music expects to imbed its entire stock music library with the detection software for monitoring in the United States, Europe and worldwide through the internet. CSS anticipates an increase in revenue received from its performing rights organizations Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) as Tunesat continues to uncover unreported use of its music.
About CSS Music:
Established in 1982 in Los Angeles, CA, CSS Music is a royalty-free music company with a library of more than 12,000 tracks. CSS Music provides royalty free music and sound FX for film, video and television producers. CSS is dedicated to working with music supervisors, editors, directors and producers to meet their creative needs. For more information on CSS Music visit http://www.cssmusic.com/.