The Data Is In!

More On Keywords In The CSS  Royalty Free Music Library

With a diverse library like we have at CSS Music, the question may arise: How do you come up with those keywords for the database? While we wish it were as easy as elves typing furiously while we peacefully sleep, the truth is: it requires a tremendous amount thinking—and hard work!

When you’re on our website you’ll notice in our top search engine, Hand Picked Items/Category Hot Lists, that we have 3 genres of Country and 6 category for Rock. As the old joke goes, “We play all kinds of music. Country and Western.” If this was 1955, that would probably be the funny. But today, Country has gone through many changes, as has Rock and even Film music. So we’ve done our best to delineate various styles.

Once we have music in their basic ballparks, the challenge becomes assigning words that best describe the mood, tempo, instrumentation, etc. within each subcategory. And you’ll probably find that a track in the Rock (Swampy-Southern Edge-Rural Rebellion) will also appear in one of the Country lists. This isn’t meant to be redundant as much as illustrating how music styles have crossed genre-specific lines.

So if it’s not elves busily typing overnight, how does the data get entered? That’d be our busy composer elves. After a disc is completed, we asked our stable of talented composers to use an Excel spreadsheet to enter as many keywords as they can think of. So if you’re looking for a very specific mood or style, and want to search what these writers were thinking, we suggest using our Build-A-Search engine at the bottom of the Keyword Search page. That way, something that may be a little oblique, will yield the track you seek. Even the keyword “searching” will bring up 5 search result pages!

The CSS Music database is always being updated so what you may not find today will be there with one of our quarterly updates. We know how busy you guys are and we’re doing all we can to make your work go faster and smoothly. And we always welcome your feedback!