Hi, I create videos to educate others on living more with nature instead of from nature. Anyway, I currently pay for Epidemic Sound. I only use the songs from a single band for all of my videos. So, Epidemic Sound is getting a lot of money for a dozen songs from the same band.

I’d rather pay the artists for their work than Epidemic Sound. But I don’t know where to start. I’d like to find something like the songs by Wanderer’s Trove to use for my videos. I don’t mind paying as much as I do with ES. I’d just rather it go to the artist than a corporation. Any advice on how to find such songs without going for a subscription?

Thank you!

PS: I really hope this is the right community for this question. I don’t know much about music or music production at all.

  • rootsandcallusesOP
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    3 months ago

    Thanks, I’ll see if any of them are actually similar (to my ears) and have contact information available.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah I have looked myself. With how little they have out there I wouldn’t be surprised is their ES contract does not allow them to have any independent audience interaction. I mean there doesn’t even seem to be a source saying the names of the musicians.

      • rootsandcallusesOP
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I assume you are right about that. Which really just makes me want to find a way around Epidemic Sound even more.