I uploaded a video last week to youtube and something new happened. They offered to add a music clip to my video for me, for free of course. I think this is pretty cool. I usually add my own music but this particular video I had not. I checked the list of songs available and they were chosen to line up with the length of my video. I finally chose not to add the song because it would place an ad in the video. I assume it would be a clickable link to buy the song. There is nothing wrong with that but I did not want to block out any part of my video content. Also there are plenty of places to find music for podcasts & video casts from independent artists so I’d rather choose my own from the start. I like the option to add music directly from youtube but I don’t want my music “sanitized” by a big company like Google. Some of the royalty free music I have found has been great. Two artists I really like are as good as or better than any mainstream stuff out there to me. Sunspot & Addek are the two artists. If everyone just goes along with the big companies’ choices for music & other options then pretty soon youtube will look like ….. TV, where everything is pretty much the same except for a few out of the box shows.