Smooth Music for Podcasts and Lounge Video

Almost all of it is instrumental: roughly nine in ten tracks carry no vocals, which is why it sits so easily under a podcast host or a narrator. The exception is Chris Savor's We Alright, a vocal track, while cues such as Heather Evans's Hope of the Season (inst) and Syvers's Fired Up (inst) are instrumental versions of songs. If a voice will be speaking over the music, stay with the instrumental cuts and audition the vocal one separately for an intro or outro.

Not in the saxophone-and-Rhodes sense. This collection leans toward downtempo, chillout and ambient-beat electronica rather than traditional smooth jazz, with electronic textures, soft percussion, keyboards and electric guitar leading most tracks and mallets and strings adding warmth; the closest reference points in its metadata are Milosh and Boards of Canada. If you want the lounge-and-hospitality feel of smooth jazz without a jazz-instrumentation sound, this is the place; if you specifically need horns and swing, search the wider catalog by genre instead.

Electronic textures and percussion appear on nearly every track, followed by keyboards, electric guitars and mallets, with strings on a few cues. Because the moods skew ambient, chill and calm and the arrangements avoid busy lead lines, most tracks can run under dialogue or narration at a modest level without competing for attention, which is why documentary, lounge and travel vlog are the most common tagged uses. William French's Drift Away and Blue Heron are good starting points for an understated bed.

Tracks average just under four minutes, long enough to score a full segment or a timelapse without looping, and short enough to trim into a fifteen or thirty second intro or outro. Intro/outro is one of the collection's most common tagged uses alongside documentary, lounge and building or timelapse footage. City of Domes's The First Cold Morning and Mokhov's Magic Times are examples of cues tagged for that kind of slow, building picture.

This smooth music is usable in monetized podcasts and YouTube channels: every track is cleared for commercial use under the license you buy, including monetized YouTube video, podcasts, social content and client work. A subscription lets you license as many tracks as you need during the term, billed monthly or annually, and each license stays perpetual for the specific episode or video it was issued for, so back-catalog episodes remain covered after you stop subscribing.