For me there was a download link to the free music tracks of Muzerk in the email as shown in the attached pic.

As far as SmartSound, no longer included with PD15, only available if you had it from a prior PD installation on the same computer. https://www.cyberlink.com/support/product-faq-content.do?id=19351&prodId=4&prodVerId=1248&CategoryId=-1&keyword=smartsound

Jeff

Thank you Jeff. The email I got doesn't have the Muzerk download, unlike yours. I think they bundle the packages differently depending on which link you use to buy PD15. I did find out that you can still download the SmartSound installer and I verified it does indeed still work with PD15:

http://www.smartsound.com/support/updates?product=cyberlink



What does anyone else use for background music? Are there really good free and royalty-free sources online I should know about?

Quote Thank you Jeff. The email I got doesn't have the Muzerk download, unlike yours. I think they bundle the packages differently depending on which link you use to buy PD15. I did find out that you can still download the SmartSound installer and I verified it does indeed still work with PD15:

http://www.smartsound.com/support/updates?product=cyberlink



What does anyone else use for background music? Are there really good free and royalty-free sources online I should know about?

Try these, for starters!



http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/47162.page Regards,
Dan
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Quote For me there was a download link to the free music tracks of Muzerk in the email as shown in the attached pic.
Jeff

What did you do with them after downloading? I got them in a zip file with zip for instructions.

Try this: In windows explorer right mouse click on the zipped file and select extract all and follow instructions to put it whatever folder.

Quote Try this: In windows explorer right mouse click on the zipped file and select extract all and follow instructions to put it whatever folder.

I wasn't clear enough. I'm sorry. I've been unzipping zip files since you had to do it with the PKZip utility. My question was supposed to be, "What do I do with the mp3 files so that PowerDirector knows where they are?" I was asking under the assumption that they were going to be accessed from inside the program, like SmartSound. Apparently not.

They are not part of a PD15 installation like integrated with smartsound in the earlier versions of PD. They can be placed in your music library folder or wherever you can remember like in a subfolder.