MusicbedReviews of musicbed.com

This service is simply awful. I upload few YouTube videos. One out of every two videos I upload triggers copyright claims for songs from my Musicbed subscription. The worst part is that after spending a month editing a video and basing the entire edit on the music, I got another copyright claim. The guy who's supposedly in customer service said they hadn't received any notification of copyright claims for the music I used, which, of course, belongs to them. I insisted he resolve the issue, but he simply stopped responding. I have proof and screenshots of everything I'm saying. It's the worst service of its kind I've ever used. Imagine paying over thirty dollars a month only to have copyright problems with the music you're paying for. I will request to terminate my contract and I completely advise against this service. It's not worth it when there are other options that never give you problems.

Slow to respond to requests for quotes. Pricing is not transparent and varies dramatically. Impossible to predict and budget for, which leads to angry clients. Customer service is not helpful. Sometimes they want $50 for a license. Other times I've gotten a surprise quote as high as $10,000. Their music is no better than any of their competitors and they're slow and hard to work with.

On November 24, 2025, I signed up for Musicbed intending to download a single piece of music. When I saw the $99.99 charge, I mistakenly believed it was a one-time or annual fee. I take responsibility for not reviewing the subscription terms carefully at the time. Starting January 8, 2026, I was charged $99.99 monthly (January, February, and March). Once I realized what was happening, I immediately contacted customer service. I explained the situation and offered a reasonable compromise: I was willing to pay for the track and even one additional month due to my oversight. I then asked if they could cancel the subscription and reverse the most recent charge. I was informed that I am obligated to continue paying for the remainder of the annual term under the contract. I contacted American Express to dispute the charges and block further billing. In a follow-up call with Musicbed, I was told that if I removed the dispute and paid an additional $199.99 (two more months), they would proceed with cancellation. That outcome did not feel reasonable to me. I’m sharing this experience so others can make an informed decision.

I've been using musicbed for almost 10 years and I would say AVOID. YOU CAN NOT MONETIZE LICENSED TRACKS WITH MUSICBED. They've single handed rendered like 50 of my projects I've created under these 10 years more or less useless. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Catalog is great but their website is terrible. Slow to a degree that it's unusable. As soon as I load up their website and start playing a couple of tracks it completely eats up my CPU. Tried it on several different computers and always the same issue. I did a Google PageSpeed insight report just to verify that I wasn't a "me"-issue, and it reports a staggering 17s to fully load the page O_O Aren't you guys using your own website? Speed and effecient should be priority #1 (after the music that is). The root cause seem to be they are using an javascript framework (react) to render the whole website, which is just so extremely heavy on the CPU. Anyone using react in 2026 is just a sad choice and it hurts business. Why Musicbed, why? I just want to be able to scan for music tracks for our projects. UPDATE: I can't recommend Musicbed anymore. Their licensing is just completely ridiculous, because I found out that you simply can't monetize tracks that you buy license for. Uhm OK. Here is a licensing example: Pay $0 and you can use the track but the artist takes the revenue. Pay $59 for a Musicbed license and you can use the track but the artist takes the revenue. Which alternative would you go with? Well there is no point in paying $59 when it does not add anything. So what exacly are you paying for? No one seems to know not even musicbed themselves. So I asked Musicbed support what the point is and they simply couldn't answer this. This company is completely clueless to what they are offering, they don't even understand their own licensing model. Nowhere in their shopping cart they say this. For example when you enter their website from a search engine (and landing on a specific track) and then click "License" there is exacly NOWHERE it says you can't monetize the track you are licensing. It doesn't even say anything in the actual license agreement. This kind of companies with this kind of business practices I'm actually happy that it will dissolve because of AI. I'm so disappointed of Musicbed. I've never experienced this confusing and nightmare licensing model and I've used almost every other company out there.

Be very careful before signing up. Musicbed advertises monthly pricing, but in my experience it functions as a 12-month contract paid monthly, not a normal cancel-anytime subscription. That distinction was not presented clearly enough for a commitment of this size. I realized the issue almost immediately, contacted them within days, and explained that I needed to stop using the service because of a sudden family medical situation. I did not ask for a refund of the first payment. I asked for a reasonable hardship cancellation. They refused. What made it worse was how they framed my use. They pointed to download/license totals even though most of that was just auditioning music internally while editing. I had no ongoing public use, deleted the videos I made, and removed the downloaded files. The music may be excellent, but the billing model and customer service left a very bad impression. I would strongly encourage creators to read every word before checking out, because this did not feel transparent or customer-friendly at all.

I am sharing this review for informational purposes based strictly on my personal interactions with this business: This was honestly the worst experience with any company ever. I’m a software expert—I work with hundreds of tools, literally—and I’ve never seen a business treat people with this much manipulation. Here’s the deal: I had a major family health crisis and had to pause the new content channel I was building with Musicbed. I reached out and said, "Hey, I can’t do this right now, can we settle?" I NEVER EVEN published a single thing with their music!! Fine, I signed up for the 12-m agreement, I'll take that...But it gets weirder. I offered to just pay off the current year in full to be done with it. They told me that paying it off early is a "breach of contract," and they’d revoke my access to the music. ????? They want my money, but then they want to take away the service I just paid for. It’s a total cash grab. The worst part? The software is rigged. They actually have a button that says "Disable Renewal," but they keep it locked so it doesn't work! You can’t even set it to NOT renew for the next year—you're forced to email their team and hope they don't "trap" you again. I’m pretty sure this is actually illegal in California under the California Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), which requires an easy, online way to cancel. In my opinion, this is abuse of power. They took my card info and then used it against me... They aren't even doing this to support artists; they told me it's just their "business practice". If you value your money and your sanity, stick with Epidemic Sound. They treat you like a human being. Rebuttal to MusicBeds Response: The reality is your team was ready to screw me over, even though I paid in full... Allison multiple times told me I 'breached' the contract and not once offered me anything you mentioned. She was so happy to use the contract against me, when again, I never ONCE used your music. No one gave me clear isntructions on how to get the most of what I paid for, considering my family had a medical emergency and again I never used the music. Also, worth mentioning that in California having the ability to disable an account AS EASY AS SIGNING UP is a legal requirement, which in my opinion, having to reach out to support isn't as easy as signup. Look up: California Automatic Renewal Law (ARL)...

Whatch out! You can't turn off renewal until 30 days before it renews! Wow, I must say this is such a cheap move from Musicbed. I subscribed for 1 year and barely used it so I never thought much of it. Suddenly I got an email saying I just renewed for another year. I thought shit I forgot to turn it off, oh well now I'm stuck with it for another year. Logged in to turn it off and guess what? You can't turn it off until 30 days before it renews. The reason is "to avoid interrupted user-experience". I mean really? That's some bs. You already have my money for an entire year! If you are worth it, I will continue using it. Don't force me to stay and pray for me to forget cancelling in time. Like come on Musicbed, are you really THAT poor that you must make money this way? I will NEVER go back to Musicbed, nor will I recommend it to anyone! To Musicbed: you claim doing this is for the benefit of the customers, that "for our clients who work with a high volume of projects, a delay like that can be detrimental to their workflow". What delay? You mean my account just gets deleted in one day if I don't have an active subscription? Please save me the BS! Don't be so obvious in treating me like a stupid person, please! Let me help you: let us cancel anytime and IF we enjoy your service and for some godforbidden reason can't live without it, we WILL renew. Yes you make sure to send me one reminder 30 days before but that is, thank god for taking your time! You know one single email can easily get lost. I know you don't care one bit but you lost a potential customer. You COULD have made more money out off me but no.

Beware this company. I took out a trial subscription and cancelled within a week, as required. Apparently they have no record of this and have started billing me every month. Contacted them to cancel but they require me to pay even more money to cancel. I was willing for them to keep the 2 mos they already charged, but to require another $400, just to cancel. is a bad business policy. Again, beware of these guys.