I mentioned this before but just in case you missed it, this is why you don't want to use youtube's "free" audio library.
tldnr: Do not use youtube's free audio tracks because a few months from now the licensing of those tracks changes and you'll end up with a non-monetizable and flagged video.
I had this video uploaded in January 2010, it has over 15000 views, youtube flagged it on a first instance because there was copyrighted music playing in the background. The music was not an important part of the video, it was just some random song playing in my computer that got on the final video as background noise.
I decided to remove the audio entirely and ended up choosing a song from the audio library since you have (had?) no way of uploading your own audio track.
That seemed to work and the video was kept online.
Fast forward to mid-2013 and I decided to monetize my channel and my most viewed videos. Now the policies regarding youtube's "free" audio library changed and whoever made the audio track that I chose, to replace over a copyrighted song on my video, decided he won't be licensing youtube to use the track.
Now my video got flagged, cannot monetize it and I have to go over the stupid audioswap to get flagged again, months later.
This is not the first thing this happens.
Do you remember the "youtube anthem" song from 009 Sound System? All videos using that song got flagged.
Even when the tracks were free to download and use from "track one records", now you get flagged if you use anything you got from them.
What happens when you try to remove the audio? They dispatch the monkeys:
tldnr: Do not use youtube's free audio tracks because a few months from now the licensing of those tracks changes and you'll end up with a non-monetizable and flagged video.
I had this video uploaded in January 2010, it has over 15000 views, youtube flagged it on a first instance because there was copyrighted music playing in the background. The music was not an important part of the video, it was just some random song playing in my computer that got on the final video as background noise.
I decided to remove the audio entirely and ended up choosing a song from the audio library since you have (had?) no way of uploading your own audio track.
That seemed to work and the video was kept online.
Fast forward to mid-2013 and I decided to monetize my channel and my most viewed videos. Now the policies regarding youtube's "free" audio library changed and whoever made the audio track that I chose, to replace over a copyrighted song on my video, decided he won't be licensing youtube to use the track.
Now my video got flagged, cannot monetize it and I have to go over the stupid audioswap to get flagged again, months later.
This is not the first thing this happens.
Do you remember the "youtube anthem" song from 009 Sound System? All videos using that song got flagged.
Even when the tracks were free to download and use from "track one records", now you get flagged if you use anything you got from them.
What happens when you try to remove the audio? They dispatch the monkeys:
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