When you make a movie as an art, you often want to set a mood with a background music track, or sound track. You aren't limited, in FlipShare, to the music selections they give you. In FlipShare's sequence of steps for making a movie from your clips, one dialog is entitled "Include background music," and gives you the choice of a) No music, b) Use Flip Video music, or c) Use music from my computer.

There are two limitations on the music you use from your own computer:

1. It needs to be of the .mp3 file type
2. If you plan to share it on YouTube, or any other public website, you need to have the rights to the music

In the same dialog, you can specify that the music should be played softer or louder than the sound in the video, or replace it altogether. Other video editors, e.g. Windows Movie Maker, give you an even richer set of options, allowing you to get more precise control over the balance, and even change it from one section to another in your video

The second limitations has caused many to run afoul of copyright laws, even if they aren't always caught.  We all want to do the right thing, right?

It so happens that there is a website that has tons of great music that you can use for free.  All you have to do is credit the author at the end of your video.  There is music to fit every taste, every mood, every genre you can imagine.  Virtually all of the music is freely downloadable in .mp3 format.

The site is called Jamendo, and can be found at this address:

http://www.jamendo.com/

If you find an artist you like, and you will, you can download single songs, or sometimes whole albums from that artist.  You can be notified of new releases from that artist.  You can listen to radio stations of music of a particular genre.  When you listen to music, and you enable pop-ups from the site, you get a neat player that not only allows you to pause a song, control the volume, or skip to the next tune, but also tells you whom you're listening to, how long the piece is, and gives you a button that enables you to download the song you're listening to.

Give it a shot.  You won't be disappointed.