In the old days I took my chances adding country songs to my YouTube videos. And I always got caught. Fast forward a bunch of years and now you can add royalty free music / audio tracks to your videos.
Here is how you do it:
Once you upload the video, go to “Creator Studio” and then to “Video Manager”, select the video you want to add Audio to, then pull down the edit menu and click on “Audio”. See Figure 1
Once you click “Audio” you will see the following (figure 2). Pull down the menu labeled “Top Tracks” to pick the lesser tracks (haha). Once you find your genre, click on it.
Figure 3 shows my “Country & Folk” selection and the run times for the tracks. You can click on each one to find the track you like.
When I did the 360 degree video, I was not too picky on the audio run time and let YouTube fit it to the video once I picked a catchy tune. You can do the same, but, I think you can also adjust the run time using the following shown in Figure 4 (? give it a try and comment below):
If you want, you can search a very large library of audio tracks….have fun!
Here is the video featured in this blog post….enjoy!
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