If you’ve just joined Melodie, welcome!

Melodie is a tech-enabled music licensing solution providing authentic music for content creators, businesses and creative platforms. Powered by AI search tools, and with an award-winning roster of artists, Melodie makes it fast and incredibly easy to find copyright-safe music for videos, podcasts, games, live streams, broadcast media and more.

This user guide explains how all the features work, but to kick things off, here’s a short video….

Our Purpose

Melodie was founded by a family of composers, musicians and sound designers – all with a deep understanding of the essential role music plays in storytelling. We created a simple, intuitive music licensing platform that delighted the world’s content creators whilst supporting those creating the music.

Our Mission is to empower all creators to easily find and license high-quality music for any type of content. In doing so, we live by a simple set of core values:

Search Introduction

Our advanced music search engine was designed to be simple, flexible, and available to everyone.

We’ve meticulously tagged every track in our library to provide you with the most powerful, accurate search experience on the market. With the flexibility to search in the way that makes most sense to you.

There are multiple ways to search, and you can use any combination of these functions simultaneously:

Search with keywords and menus:

1. 1. 1. Enter comma-separated keywords into the search bar;
      2. Use the Genre, Mood, Instrument, Purpose, Tempo, Duration, Key, Artists menus.

Or try our AI-powered ‘reverse-audio’ search tools to find something similar from a reference track:

1. 1. 1. Search using an uploaded mp3 or wav file;
      2. Find similar tracks to any track in the Melodie library.

AI-Tools: Upload MP3 & Find Similar

In partnership with our friends at Musiio, we provide two artificial intelligence-powered search tools that use an audio reference to find similar tracks at Melodie. You can upload any mp3 or wav file, or use any Melodie track as the reference (Find Similar).

Search Exclusions

Ever find yourself looking for a track without a certain something? Let’s say you want a funky track but without saxophone? Changing the search type from a regular search inclusion to a search exclusion is as easy as toggling the “+” / “–” icon located beside each keyword.

Collections

Collections are located on the Browse Music page under the ‘Collections’ tab. Just like when searching for Tracks, you can filter results using any combination of keyword search menus/filters.

Hotkeys (Keyboard Shortcuts)

These keyboard shortcuts, or ‘hotkeys’, allow you to work faster using the commands on your keyboard.

Standard Hotkeys

Subscribers Only

(For currently selected/playing track)

Alternate Versions & Stems

Each Melodie track features alternate versions / stems. They are always different, made to suit the track. If there’s a vocal present, you will always find an instrumental. Click the small “down arrow” icon beside a track title to display versions. Versions are only available to Pro and Enterprise users.

My Library

Playlist Creator

Favourites & Sharing

To share a track, simply click the ‘Share’ icon to copy the URL, then paste it into a browser, email or social media platform.

Downloading Music

To download a track, simply click the “download” icon located beside any track or version.

Downloading Playlists (One-Click Mass Downloads)

If you have an Enterprise level subscription, you can add multiple tracks to a playlist and download the entire playlist as a single compressed zip file.

To download a playlist, open a playlist (available via the My library page) and click the download icon.

Once the download modal emerges you have the option to download files in the following four ways:

• All WAV – Download WAV mains & versions.
• Mains WAV – Download WAV mains only (excluding versions) .
• All MP3 – Download MP3 mains & versions.
• Mains MP3 – Download MP3 mains only (excluding versions).

You can also download copyright CSV files in two ways:

• Download CSV (All) – Copyright info for main & versions.
• Download CSV (Mains) – Copyright info for mains only (excluding versions).

NOTE: These mass downloads zip on the fly – and can be several GB in size – so please download one playlist at a time to avoid browser timeouts. Once each download has started you can click the next one safely (and have many downloading simultaneously). The time playlists take to download will depend on your internet speed. We recommend using Chrome or Firefox.

Downloaded Playlists are stored in your account on the Downloads page.

Track Details & Copyright Information

To access track details and copyright information, click the ‘three dots’ icon beside any track, then select ‘Track Details’.

Generate Licence Agreement (EULA)

If you are a subscriber or team member on a paid subscription, you can generate an End User Licence Agreement (EULA) for any download. An EULA acts as a legal certificate, proving you have the required rights to use certain music tracks in your productions.

From the Download window, click “Generate Licence Agreement”.

This will open a new window where you can enter production details. Select ‘Remember details’ for next time if you are downloading multiple tracks for the same production.

The details you enter here will be printed into an End User Licence Agreement (EULA), which can be accessed at any time from the Downloads page.

Downloads / Licences Page

To view your Downloads and Licences go to your user drop down menu (top right corner of page) and click ‘Downloads’. Here you can find a permanent list of your Downloads and Licence Agreements, which can be downloaded again at any time.

You can use the search bar or filters available to refine results listed on Downloads page by user, production type, or period. Once you’ve filtered the results, you can Download a CSV containing the details of your downloads or licences.

If you would like to use the same track(s) for a new production, simply click “Generate additional licence” to generate a new EULA from the same track (or set of tracks).

Cue Sheet Tool

Melodie Enterprise customers can automatically generate an unlimited number of music cue sheets featuring timecodes, durations, and full track metadata for all Melodie tracks – compatible with major performing rights organisation (PRO) formats, such as CISAC and APRA, as well as formats for organisations such as Disney and Netflix.

Simply upload an XML or EDL file from your editing sequence to automatically generate a CSV, XLS, XLSX or TXT file cue sheet (plus other formats) for use in Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers and similar programs.

Additional Options:

• Merge overlapping identical clips – This combines identical clips that are spread across multiple channels, including fades and cuts. Turning this off will result in multiple cue sheet entries for a single track (one per cut/edit).
• Merge all identical clips (only one entry for each clip) – This combines all instances of the same track, even if they appear at different timecode points (i.e. one at 5 minutes, one at 25 minutes).
• Use frame handles to find & merge identical clips – If there’s a cut in the music continuing a few frames later, this will catch and fix such errors.
• Show disabled clips – Whilst EDL files contain only active clips, XML files can also contain disabled tracks. This should be left inactive unless you want to include those inactive tracks in your cue sheet.

There’s also a Cue Sheet History section containing a permanent record of all uploaded XML/EDL files, as well as output cue sheet files. You can sort cue sheets on this page by user, or inside a date range.

Don’t forget this is a permanent record, so you can come back at any time to download both source EDL/XML files, as well as final cue sheet files.

Team Members

At Melodie, there are three user types:

• Account Owner – billing, account management, team downloads visibility, file access.
• Admin – account management, team downloads visibility, file access.
• Team Member – personal downloads visibility, file access.

By default, the first account created is the Account Owner. This user has access to billing / renewals, and can manage all aspects of your Melodie account, including adding / removing other Team Members and Admins.

If you are an Account Owner or Admin user, you can add/remove team members via your user dropdown menu (top right of screen) – My account – My team.

Assigning a Team Member as an Admin gives that user the same permissions as the Account Owner, excluding billing and renewals.

When a new user is added, an invitation email is automatically sent to the new user.

Browser Compatibility

For best performance we recommend using a recent version of either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. If you’re using Internet Explorer it’s time to upgrade!

Frequently Asked Questions

You’ll find many answers to common questions on our FAQ page.

Contact

If you have any other questions, please contact us.