# 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. Full answer in the docs: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/licensing ## "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 ### Is 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 a license record on file to show where the music came from. (Free and Lite have no commercial license, and music you upload yourself is yours to clear.) More: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/licensing ### How 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. More: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/generate-music ### Is 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. More: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/curated-library ### What 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) and the AI first pass beyond your first free one; the uploads allowance caps how much audio you bring in. Free: 100 credits, 60 min, MP3 128k, exports up to 10 minutes. Lite: 700, 10 hrs, 2 GiB storage, MP3 320k. Plus: 2,750, 25 hrs, WAV, commercial license. Max: 6,500, unlimited, broadcast (EBU R128), stems. More: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/plans-and-limits --- Canonical page: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/features/royalty-free-podcast-music Last updated: 2026-08-11