Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

All music tracks on this website are offered under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. This license allows you to use, share, and adapt the music freely, as long as you appropriately credit the creator. Detailed information about the license can be found here.

Crediting the author is generally required under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. However, in my case, crediting is voluntary. I appreciate the recognition of my work, but I also understand that there may be circumstances where this is not possible. In such cases, I waive the mandatory credit.

If you want to credit the author, which is voluntary and optional, you can do so as follows:

Example:
"Battlefield Heroes" by Sascha Ende
Link: https://ende.app/song/12335-battlefield-heroes
License: https://ende.app/standard-license

No, an extended license is no longer required. The purchase of such licenses was always voluntary and primarily served to support my work. The music is now fully available under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license with a special addition that makes author attribution voluntary. There are no more extended licenses and they are no longer necessary.

Due to the low number of donations and license purchases, I could no longer maintain the old website and the associated community, which encompassed over 250,000 users. Sending emails of any kind costs a lot of money and support requires even more time. For cost and time reasons, I had to decide to delete all data except the music. Therefore, logging in on the old website is no longer possible. However, you can use your old email address to sign up for the waitlist for ENDE.APP and receive VIPClub access immediately without waiting. For this purpose, all old email addresses were stored as a hash list.

• You delete your account (or your login code) by simply not logging in for 3 months.
• Accounts are nothing more than an anonymous UUID provided (borrowed) by Filmmusic.io and contain no personal data like email, password, or similar.
• The recognition of whether you have registered at Filmmusic.io before works like this: You enter your email on the waitlist. The email is checked against a hash list, and if the hashed value of your email address occurs, you are entitled to skip the waitlist.
• Only the waitlist requires a temporary storage of the email address. This is deleted after sending the email.
• If you regularly exhaust your download quota over several days, the system will impose a multi-week restriction, limiting your account to 3 downloads per day. VIPClub accounts are therefore no free pass for unlimited downloads.

The music on this website is provided without any warranty and without support. For time and organizational reasons, I no longer offer personal support or respond to individual inquiries. Please use the music under the specified conditions, without counting on additional support.

Unfortunately, for legal reasons, I can no longer accept paid commissions as I am no longer running a business. I ask for your understanding and recommend that you contact other qualified providers if needed.

No. There are many different reasons for this, most of which you can probably guess. I only link to sponsors who contribute to the maintenance of this website. And yes, this question comes up so often that I've included it here in the FAQ.

No. I do not have a business to legally accept money. The waitlist is fair and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no possibility of skipping ahead. This would apply even to the President of the USA or Elon Musk; no one is given preference.

As I am no longer running a business and for legal reasons cannot accept donations, I ask you to donate the amount you wish to give to a charitable organization or educational institution of your choice. You are welcome to send me a copy of the donation receipt via email so that I can thank you.

As much as I'd love to dive into the confusing world of YouTube, I must pass on this one. Content ID and I – we are not friends, and YouTube is not exactly on my "favorite platforms" list. But don't worry! I'm sure you're strong and independent enough to file a claim. If you still lack the right path through the maze of appeal options, a search engine might become your new best friend. It surely knows how to put you on the right track!

I use the following hardware:

• Keyboard: M-AUDIO Oxygen Pro61 (I've been playing keyboards since I was 7 years old)
• Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 8i6
• Microphone 1: Rhode PodMic
• Microphone 2: Rhode NT1-A
• Microphone 3: Rhode NT-5

I use the following DAWs:

• Steinberg Cubase (Orchestral music, recording)
• Image Line FL Studio (Electronic Music, HipHop)

I use 95% instruments from the following manufacturers:

• 8dio (I love the Insolidus Choir, the solo violin/the solo cello, and the sound effects)
• Native Instruments (Komplete Ultimate, I love the Stradivari)
• East West (Soundsonline) (Orchestra and vocals)
• Refx Nexus
• Spitfire Audio (I love the BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional)

First of all: Congratulations, you have taste! Or at least a taste - and as we all know, tastes in music are about as uniform as weather forecasts. No problem: In the app, you can choose other tracks at any time or turn off the music completely. I don't take it personally. Really, I don't. I just cry silently for a short while.

If you now think: "Great, but why isn't there exactly that one perfect music that catapults me into the Zen galaxy in seconds?" - quite simply: Because it's impossible. One person meditates to whale songs, another to ethereal synth pads, the next just wants silence. What I'm saying is: Try different things. Mix courage with an adventurous spirit. Or turn everything off and enjoy the sound of your own existence. Minimalism and such.

By the way, I'm constantly working on new sounds - without a large team, without the music industry backing me up, and sadly also without elves composing new tracks at night. So: Patience, curiosity, and if in doubt - the mute button.

It's important to know that I have always been employed full-time at another company and still am, and I run this website only as a side project in my spare time (mostly in the evenings). It has always been a one-man show.

• 2010 - Started my first music portfolio on my personal website ende.us.
• 2011 - Moved to a new domain, ende.tv.
• 2012 - A significant milestone: Over 100,000 visitors on the website.
• 2013 - Took on a key role at a leading media company, leading to a strategic partnership and the transfer of ende.tv to the company. This decision turned out to be a big mistake in hindsight.
• 2016 - Left the media company and migrated my musical works to sascha-ende.de.
• 2017 - Founded Filmmusic.io and relocated my music to this platform. The domain sascha-ende.de was transformed into a virtual business card.
• 2019 - Expanded Filmmusic.io to allow other artists to upload and monetize their music. This year also saw the founding of "Filmmusic.io UG," a decision I later regretted.
• 2022 - Faced significant financial challenges in maintaining Filmmusic.io. Despite forgoing a salary, Filmmusic.io UG had to be liquidated. I took over the project as an individual and introduced a new model that allowed artists to use their own payment providers with 100% revenue sharing, supplemented by voluntary donations. This approach, however, proved to be another critical mistake.
• 2023 - Removed advertising for data protection reasons, further complicating financial sustainability. While guest artists generated substantial revenues through their payment providers, few donated a portion of their earnings. The effort invested in development and support brought in little revenue, with an average monthly income of 150-200 euros. Additionally, the platform's integrity was compromised as artists began registering their entire music portfolios under YouTube's Content ID system, leading to a loss of trust among users and exacerbating my personal challenges, including phases of severe depression.
• 2024 - Filmmusic.io became exclusively focused on my own compositions at the end of January due to ongoing trust and licensing issues. This step was necessary due to further incidents of guest artists falsely registering their supposedly copyright-free music under YouTube's Content ID system, thereby violating the terms of the Creative Commons 4.0 license. This decision marked a positive turning point in strategy.
• August 2024 - The Filmmusic.io community was closed due to the lack of financial sustainability. The platform was replaced by a modern website that uses the latest technologies and focuses on my music and A.I.-generated music. Anonymous accounts were introduced: These offer some features of the previous website without having to deal with data protection issues and corresponding email support.
• September 2024 - I also deregistered my small business as it simply was not worth dealing with accounting and the tax office for the small earnings - everyone else earned more than I did myself. The music license was supplemented with a passage making author credit optional (according to the earlier extended licenses). This website is now purely a private hobby.