This is an Erik Satie piece. He died in 1925, and so is out of copyright. We do have a few classic tracks in the library, but the majority are Filmstro Original tracks.
For what it's worth, I think the license is much more critical than being royalty free in terms of value creation. While royalty free is "cool" for generic Youtubers. Professionals and corporations with real budgets have money for royalties and it can be rounding error for the money they spend on lawyers to keep them away from copyright problems. To put it another way, clear and central copyright licensing has the potential to allow the project to move well upmarket. Without it, even free wouldn't look like a bargain to someone serious enough to have a lawyer.
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head with your description.
Just regarding your comment about music students, please feel free to get in touch with us if you are interested in writing music for Filmstro. send an email to composer@filmstro.com
Hey, I love the idea of the being able to compose music that matches the visuals of a film very easily with the app so I decided to download it and test it. Unfortunately, it seems it is not able to import .mov files on my macbook pro and when I import one of my 4k .mp4 source files, it plays very slowly, in fact so slowly that the video and the timeline become out of synch. My two questions are, are you aware of these two issues and are you planning to fix them?
Yeah, thanks for the feedback! Yeah, we are aware of a some of the 4K video issues. We're also working on allowing more file formats in the app. I don't have an ETA for you, but it is in the works.
