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Music Soundtracks for School Projects

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Welcome to UniqueTracks! We offer professional music recordings created for educational programs where students are given hands-on classroom experience with multimedia and Web design, podcasting, video and film editing, PowerPoint presentations and TV/Radio programming.

UniqueTracks music comes with a royalty-free agreement which means when you purchase a CD, you are in fact purchasing a license that grants your school the legal rights (permission) to use the recordings in any school projects you wish.

Why choose UniqueTracks Music Products?
1. UniqueTracks music CDs are easy to use, students just import tracks into the software program they are using (iMovie, Premiere, SmartSound, GarageBand, Final Cut, Studio DV, Avid Video- Shop).

2. Our music provides an aid for digital storytelling in the classroom. Adding music to a student’s project will greatly expand the project’s power to communicate.

3. Students can express themselves by picking music that not only matches their projects, but their personalities as well (our library is packed with plenty of current music styles).

4. The discs expand the tools available to the teacher. Choosing our four-volume packs is a quick way to gain a ready-made and diverse portfolio of music. There are over 4 hours of music in each of the UniqueTracks Packs. If your school has a media program or a digital storytelling program, then adding background music options gives the projects more power.

5. Using background music in media projects improves the quality of student work. Students who have the opportunity to work with the tools of modern communications and media gain invaluable training.

6. Your purchase is licensed for lifetime use of the music. There is never another fee or payment to us. We know that with constant lab and classroom usage that wear and tear on the disks can, over time, cause them to fail. UniqueTracks has a policy or replacing all worn-out or damaged disks free of charge (there is a small shipping charge). To us, what you are paying for is the license to use the music, the disks themselves are just the delivery medium for the recordings. We do encourage you to make back-up copies of all music licensed from our library.

We feature both Contemporary and Classical music recordings. Contemporary music collections include Rock, Hip Hop, Techno, Jazz, Country and Hollywood-style movie soundtracks. Our Classical music collections span centuries of classical music with real orchestral performances. You can listen to complete performances of every track on every CD we license by following the links on this web site.

We also carry a sound effects collection which is designed for multimedia (Powerpoint, Flash), video/computer gaming projects, and also radio and television usage. These sound effects are short audio files that can be used to contribute to good multimedia design (button and click sounds, chimes, pings, etc.) and can are also used to create dramatic lead-ins and build ups for TV studio and radio station usage.

Pricing Educators receive over 15% off of UniqueTracks regular pricing (regular pricing is the pricing you'll see next to the products on this site). Please download our free 19 page Pricing and Information Guide which lists our music products along with the Educator discount pricing pre-calculated for each item. UniqueTracks is happy to accept Purchase Orders. All Purchase Orders can either be faxed to us at 718-965-1215 or mailed to: UniqueTracks PO Box 150414 Van Brunt Station Brooklyn, NY 11215-0414

Download our 19 page Pricing and Information Guide in PDF format.

Accounting Information Most Board of Education purchasing departments require our Employer Identification Number (EIN). This is similar to a social security number but it identifies US businesses. The UniqueTracks EIN is 30-0375239 Your purchasing department may also require a filled-out W-9 form from UniqueTracks to set us up on their computer system. We are happy to fax this to them. Please contact us toll free at 1-888-400-2149 or fax us at 1-718-965-1215 For online purchases, please use this discount code EDU15 during checkout on our web store. This code will discount your shopping cart to reflect the Education discount described in the Pricing and Information Guide.

Customer Comments... "For the past 5 years we have used the UniqueTracks music library with high school students to provide background music for their film projects in our Summer Filmmakers Workshop. The CDs have worked incredibly well and have provided students with many options when choosing their soundtracks. I continue to be very happy with the quality of the music and the excellent production values." Rosanne Limoncelli, Director of Production for Film and New Media, Department of Film and Television, New York University

When you buy a "royalty free" music CD, you are in fact purchasing a license that gives your school permission to use the recorded music contained on the CD (without ever paying another licensing fee). Your purchase lets your educational institution use the music as often as needed and it can be used by the entire student body or faculty and administration.

We have some educational customers that put the albums they've purchased from us on the school's computer network so the music is available in several classrooms at the same time. This is entirely fine and within the UniqueTracks license agreement.

UniqueTracks Album Packages

CD-ROM or Album Download
You may receive your music on CD-ROM or it can be downloaded directly to your computer network. CD-ROMs are shipped and come in the standard CD Jewel case with booklet. Downloaded albums are zipped and download as folders on your computer. Included in each album folder are separate song folders and a license agreement as a pdf file.

If your students edit their projects on computer then the pre-digitized CD-ROM Bundles are a great deal. With the CD-ROM bundles you receive the music already in computer-ready format - as WAV files and as MP3 files.

PLUS --> All shipped CD-ROM orders come bundled with an Audio CD. You'll get both the Audio CD and the digital files on the CD-ROM. This way students can easily listen to the music on a standard CD player to choose the tracks they want, then quickly locate the digitized versions on the CD-ROM.