So you’ve spent all month dealing with your short film. You spent time on two weeks writing the script, a different week speaking your friends into starring in it, the other more week shooting and editing the thing and finally posting it online. It’s not up for two days before Youtube has pulled it. Why? Since you used music that you simply didn’t own the copyright to. That’s where audio production music comes in.
It’s cheaper than licensing some popular song that everyone’s heard a thousand times before, it’s cheaper than employing a musician to write something for you (and then paying them again and again to rewrite it until you’re happy with it), and you only have to pay once, where as royalty-paid music will have you paying over and over every time you use the music. The one thing to think about: Is this music any good? Well, why not go to an internet site and know? They typically offer samples so you can make sure you like the music before you decide to pay for it.