Online video-sharing site Vimeo is launching a own music store to make licensing tracks more affordable.
Vimeo allows users to upload high-quality videos but restricts content to that which the user has created themselves, and is popular with indie filmmakers, musicians and comedians.
With the launch of the Vimeo Music Store, the site aims to make downloading music for video content both easier and more affordable for its users.
The pricing structure comprises Creative Commons tracks, which are free for anyone to use; paid tracks for personal, non-commercial web use, which cost US$1.99 each; and commercial licenses for professional users, which cost US$98 per track.
The store incorporates tracks from the catalogues of Audiosocket (over 33,000 tracks from emerging artists and labels) and Free Music Archive (over 11,000 tracks licensed under the Creative Commons licensing framework).
The store will also be searchable using over 100 categories of metadata, allowing users to narrow their search by aspects such as mood or tempo as well as artist.
