( Royalty-free music )
Royalty-free music made for your recording, not licensed from a library
For a podcast or lecture: an intro, an outro or a background bed, sized to the episode and ducking under the voice on its own. Producing an audiobook instead? Get a royalty-free bumper for the open and close. Either way, nothing is pulled from a catalogue that scores a thousand other shows, and every track on Plus and Max ships with a license record you can point at.
"Royalty-free" still gets claimed
The standard advice is a subscription library — Epidemic Sound, Artlist, the YouTube Audio Library — and creators who follow it still report claims and strikes on channels that were supposedly whitelisted. The library did its part; the catalogue is shared with everyone else using it, and a claim doesn’t check who paid.
Generated music sidesteps the shared-catalogue problem by construction: the track was made for this request, not pulled from a library other shows also draw from.
For podcasts and lectures: a bed that fits, not one you fit to
Describe what you want and Cast generates an intro, an outro, or a looping background bed sized to your episode or lecture — and once it’s on the timeline, it ducks under the voice automatically, re-balancing itself every time you cut a filler or a pause.
For audiobooks, the claim is narrower and stays that way on purpose: a bumper for the open and close, not a bed under the narration. Most audiobook platforms, ACX included, discourage or reject music running under the reading itself — so that’s not a claim Cast makes here.
- Generated for this recording, not licensed from a catalogue
- Ducks under speech automatically (podcasts & lectures)
- Audiobook bumpers for open/close
- License record on every Plus/Max export
The paperwork, not a promise
On Plus and Max, every generated track carries a commercial license, and every export bundles its own license record — the document you point at if a platform or a client asks where the music came from. It is testable on the Free plan first: 100 credits a month, every price shown before you generate.
One honest limit: no license, ours included, can promise a platform will never raise a question. What Cast’s gives you is the answer on file, not a guarantee that the question never comes.
FAQ
01Is the music actually royalty-free, or is it just "licensed"?
Yes — music you generate in Cast comes with a commercial license on Plus and Max, and every export made on those plans carries its own license record. Free music is only free until a platform, a client or a rights holder asks where it came from; here you have the answer on file. (Free and Lite have no commercial license, and music you upload yourself is yours to clear.)
Read more →02How do I generate music for my episode?
Describe what you want, pick what kind of track it is — a background bed that loops, an intro/outro, or a short sting — and Cast generates an original track for the episode. It is generated for you, not pulled from a catalogue other shows are also using.
Read more →03Is there a ready-made library too, or do I have to generate?
Yes — a curated library of staff picks you can search in plain words, plus playlists to browse by mood and genre, alongside generation.
Read more →04What do the plans include?
Editing is never metered and never watermarked: transcription, filler and pause removal, noise removal, captions and audio export cost zero credits on every plan, including Free. Credits buy generation (music and SFX); the uploads allowance caps how much audio you bring in. Free: 100 credits, 60 min, MP3 128k. Lite: 700, 10 hrs, MP3 320k. Plus: 2,750, 25 hrs, WAV, stems, commercial license. Max: 6,500, unlimited, broadcast (EBU R128).
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