AudioHero Review: 99 Lifetime Music Deal Better Than Epidemic Sound?

Summary

Hey folks, so today we're diving into a neat tool called Audio Hero, showcased by LearnWire. This was recently launched on AppSumo at $99, and it's pretty exciting for anyone into video creation or marketing. Why, you ask? Because for a one-time fee, you get access to over 300,000 premium royalty-free music tracks and sound effects – with the magic phrase we all love: unlimited licensing. This is a steal considering usual services charge monthly fees and have restrictive licensing.

Audio Hero isn't new; it's been around for at least 5 years and was even once a perk with TubeBuddy's pro memberships, showing its connections in the industry. LearnWire explains how you can use Audio Hero on multiple YouTube accounts or even as an agency. This is fantastic news for creators who might put out content on various channels! What's better is you can explore its extensive library using AI tools to find the right mood or genre fit for any project easily.

I found that the interface, while simple, is user-friendly. It reminds you of other sites where you can seamlessly download royalty-free music. And this is important: it's far more budget-friendly. It even allows you to create playlists and AI-curated lists, which can help you keep track of what you like or need for certain projects. So, if saving money without skimping on quality matters to you — as it does for most software and marketing enthusiasts — this video introduces a pretty powerful alternative to monthly subscription models.

Be sure to check out LearnWire's full video on AppSumo for a detailed walkthrough and hands-on test of this software.

Key Takeaways:

• Audio Hero is $99 on AppSumo, offering access to 300,000 royalty-free tracks.
• Unlimited licensing is available, unlike other services that charge monthly.
• It's well-suited for those managing multiple YouTube accounts or working in an agency setting.
• Used to be a perk with TubeBuddy, attesting to its industry connections.
• The tool has been around for over 5 years, indicating stability.
• The interface is simple and user-friendly.
• Includes features like AI search and playlist creation for ease of use.
• Tracks are curated, likely emphasizing quality over vast quantity.
• An ideal money-saving alternative to monthly music subscriptions.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest implementing Audio Hero for your small business or personal projects as a cost-effective way to access a large library of high-quality music tracks and sound effects. For just a $99 one-time fee, you can have access to 300,000 premium royalty-free tracks with unlimited licensing. This is a great option compared to other services that charge monthly fees.

A good way to start is by using Audio Hero’s intuitive interface to search for the perfect mood or genre fit for your videos or marketing content. You can use the AI tools to easily find the tracks you need without spending much time, which means more focus on creating and less on searching.

If you have multiple YouTube accounts or work in an agency, this can be a valuable tool. Email support to add your channels and manage the music licensing across various accounts. This approach ensures you are covered legally while sharing engaging content.

Additionally, make use of the playlist and AI-curated lists features to organize the tracks you like for different projects. This makes it easy to retrieve tracks you want to use repeatedly or categorize music by project type, such as commercial, documentary, or emotional pieces.

Finally, keep exploring LearnWire’s resources to deepen your understanding of how to leverage Audio Hero effectively in different scenarios, maximizing the tool's value for your business or personal growth endeavors.

Quotes by Learnwire

"Welcome back to Learnwire today; we're going to be taking a look at Audio Hero"

– Learnwire

"You get access to over 300,000 tracks of Premium royalty-free music"

– Learnwire

"They've upgraded it to the point where if you did purchase it back then…you do need to purchase this offer"

– Learnwire

"It's very easy to use the software; I didn't have to look for a tutorial on how to use this"

– Learnwire

"I purchased this; I'll be keeping this license myself"

– Learnwire

Full Transcript

all right welcome back to learn wire today we're going to be taking a look at audio hero which just launched on appsumo I believe it was last week it's coming in at $99 it's looking like if I come down here just plans and features real quick there's only one type of purchase or code that you can purchase right now and it's 99 bucks you get access to over 300,000 tracks of Premium royalty-free music I believe you can use this on multiple YouTube accounts and you can also use it as an agency in your projects so it's very generous as far as the licensing that they uh give you in in comparison with all the other U paid like epidemic sound and so forth which you're going to be paying about 18 bucks 20 bucks a month and it's very picky with the licensing and so forth so they are being very seem to be being generous with the licensing that you get with this there is a note up here customers who bought 2018 and 2019 appsumo lifetime deals need to purchase this offer to access the new feature and limits this tool has been around for at least 5 years and they've upgraded it to the point where if you did purchase it back then if you want the upgrades and so forth you do need to purchase this offer I'm okay with that because if they've changed the offer so much they're giving away unlimited they did not have an unlimited offer back then and so that is such a big jump and change with a new offer I'm sure that this is more expensive this time as well but because of the changes you're literally going from a limited amount that they were giving you 5 years ago go to unlimited amount plus probably a lot more tracks and so forth because the business has grown over the last 5 years you don't see this very often but in this case especially for a software like this where there's audio involved that there's licensing involved and so forth and then they're giving you an unlimited amount then it would kind of make sense right overall what is audio hero you get access to 300,000 premium royaltyfree music tracks and sound effects with unlimited licensing and that is the key thing right there unlimited licensing pretty cool 59 reviews looks like it's maintaining a five star right now one thing I like to do is go and investigate a little bit so if you come over here to YouTube and I type in audio hero right over here you can see that appsumo uh video from five years ago right we have this has been around for at least five years and another thing that comes to mind is when I log into tube buddy right this is a YouTube extension that is very comparable to vid IQ so when people are recommending you know you analytics and research software Tu buddy and vid IQ up the most well Tu budy they used to offer this as a perk for purchasing some of their Pro member memberships right and so I know that I had purchased the pr level membership before which is starts at like 40 or 50 bucks a month and I know that audio hero I don't have proof of that right now because they're obviously no longer a like a member perk over here you know most likely audio hero pull backed out of being a perk on Tu budy or vice versa right Tu budy decided not to work work with audio hero I don't know the but I can tell you with certainty that audio hero this tool here used to be under music and audio as a perk when you purchased some of the higher tier levels when you come over here there's different levels that you can come in at with two buddy and when you get to their like $40 plus a month plan they used to offer audio hero as a member perk so that's just offers a little bit of credibility that they were connected with some really big tools in the market so I come over here and just look at their website they do have traffic going to it and just kind of looking at um some of what their site looks like apparently they have been featured or some of their music has been featured on some of these popular movies like Batman Game of Thrones and glorious bastards cars The Fast and Furious and Beauty and the Beast so they actually have been used at that level on the pro level and Commercial level we're going to log right in and just start looking at what you get so I'm logged in I haven't done anything over here but you will see this icon up here that indicates unlimited you get unlimited and it's there is like a fair use involved with this obviously if you're coming in here and trying to download 100,000 tracks in the 30-day period they're going to flag your account because that is not fair use but as long as it's in fair use and in good reason and looks to be pretty normal use even for an agency you probably would only be using hundreds of downloads in a month you probably would never even use thousands of downloads per month but you get unlimited right over here so this is the interface right over here it's got like a light gray tone to it you know nothing super fancy but it looks very similar to some of these other sites that are like this that you're accustomed to going in downloading royalty-free music and so forth so we're just going to go and just take it for a test drive I'm a brand new never logged into this before I know that I had access to it but I don't think I actually used it at that time and so I I think that's a pretty cool deal you can just come in here get this and you know you could be spending $20 a month so after five 6 months you this tool already pays for itself and they already have the you know over five years of being around so they do have some longevity in the lifetime Deal game I don't know if other than 5 years ago if they've offered you know how many times they come back because there's not a whole lot of reviews they do have good reviews but there's not a whole lot so I don't think that they come back very often this might be a great opportunity okay so let's go take a look at some of the music so this one's not nice I'll talk over this these ones are really nice for just the music in the background and you can put these as your introductions or during your videos or at the end um this could be a marketing video or something like that talking over the music playing obviously I would turn the music down but you get the and so we can go over here I don't know what this find similar so if we wanted to find some similar right there we would just click this button right here it's going to go find matches for that song that we liked but let's say hey we don't want to use that in every song song so let's go and find some more I'm not sure if this is the one right here so Sonic search right here that's the same one we were just listening to in Morning Light this is the same one we were listening to so these ones underneath it should be similar let's go push play so it does sound similar we can skip forward and it adds more a dramatic effect on this song right here so I really like that and then it gets slower over here quieter for maybe a more dramatic or emotional part of the of the video and then it's going to pick right back up here in a minute right there so pretty cool let's go take a couple more uh looks at this so pretty cool so it does offer you know that little search for search like so once you find a song you like you can easily click that button and then it's going to find more songs let's go scroll down just see how many did it find for us I'm not there's like not another page over here but I mean it looks like it it did find like 30 or 40 songs that are like that which is pretty cool so what do you do when you want to download a song so if we come over here looks like would add this to our cart so if I wanted to go with January Angel right here you would go and you would push the cart button and then it would go over here to the cart and then later on when we click on the cart we can actually come over here and it's going to take a credit over here we would just push we would just push this redeem credit button so let's go ahead and just click that right there and it's going to grab that song for us with its license now I'm not sure what we would do with this with the license uh we have the wave file and the MP3 so if we wanted to download the MP3 now it's downloading to our computer and now we can actually open that up on our computer it's right here there's the song playing for us right there so very easily to get onto your computer you can download the license you can check out the invoice but here's where the license comes in right here where you can get the license details of what you need to do I would like to see where we if we do connect our account or our YouTube account when signing up for this account I already had an audio hero account with my main email so I use a secondary email for this account cuz I did purchase this on appsumo I use a different email just to make it seamless and easy and I believe that it did ask me what my YouTube channel URL is and that's telling audio hero which which YouTube channel I want to use this with now they do say extensively in here in the questions I do know that when you go over to questions people asking about how to add more channels and they do require you to go and uh email support to add more channels and that's just the way that they have it there's no easy way to add it over here you do need to email them any other accounts you'll probably send the URL of the channel that you also own or what or if you're an agency obviously you're going to be sending that to you're going to be sending them a lot of emails with different YouTube channels and so forth but that's what they require not a big deal really but that's how you would go about I believe looking at you can come over here to history it's going to show what you've looked at what you've actually downloaded and used so a really nice clean clean very detailed user interface I must say and then you can come back to home right there so yeah I don't see anywhere over here where you can actually choose what your YouTube channel is but when in the sign up process they do have a line and you do put your YouTube channel in there and that is going to be the one that is set probably and it's kind of a gimme right off the bat and then if you want to use it on more than one YouTube channel you do need to email them and add more channels I do know that specifically so let's go take a look at they do have a playlist feature we can they have curated playlists for us so documentary click on that they're going to have songs that they recommend that are good for documentary go take look at another one now if we wanted to come and in here and save something right so there's no way to save so I can click over here there's track options details email and what is that one right over there simar tracks okay but there's no way to add this to like a playlist or of your own so if we come over here to the left side we have this new playlist right so I can say new playlist and I'm going to just call this I'm just going to leave that so I'm going to call it documentary one uh you can choose an image you know all that kind of good stuff right there I'm going to just leave everything you can put a description in you can add it to a folder we can create a new folder and then we can just say say save so now we actually have a new playlist right over here called documentary right and so you can see that this green button shows up now right now you can actually toggle this off right here and you won't have that but essentially if you're you know I what I would do is just save this based on what YouTube channel you're using your music for or whatever project you're using because a lot of people are using this not just for YouTube they're using it for all kinds of purposes for movies and so forth but as soon as you want to save to a playlist you can just go like that and then now this is where you would actually go and add a song and you push that plus button and now you can see it turns read and we have a we have that song is now like in parentheses right here and says that we have one song So if I add another one it's going to go to two so it means we have two songs in this playlist or folder that we are now creating for ourself for our own internal use which is super cool you can also create a new AI playlist we'll click on that real quick you can go and tell it kind of what you want it to create for you and you can name it right there now I don't think it's creating a music I think it's just using an AI in order to go out there and find songs out of the 300,000 songs that it has created for us already that we have access to and it's going to find the most related it's using AI to find those tracks essentially using how good that they've described the mood the speed of the song the description the beats per minute and the genre all those things it's going to use that as an AI and it's going to find music that's very similar okay okay there's another way that you can save you can actually use Q sheet and basically I'm just going to say a test and let's just say this is like for a a movie or a big YouTube video that you guys are working months on or something like that what you can do is we can come back over here and I like that when we go to home and let's just say we go into genre let's just say we're looking at Blues right now it's going to pull up all the blues section and then if we wanted to go and Sample something out so you find something that you like we'll go and get rid of that part right there now we want to add to the to the queue now I am going to come up over here to playlists and what I do I think that you're only able to have like one green thing at a time so if I add this s right now if I push this green button I'm assuming it's going to add it to our Q sheet and so it just added this to our Q sheet right and so you can only kind of have one highlighted at once right so you either come up here and you highlight either documentaries or your Q sheets you can and when you're going in adding songs it's either going to add it to whatever Q sheet you're telling it to or whatever documentary if that makes sense right something I guess what I know about a q sheet is basically that you're able to get more formal and detailed about how you're saving this music so this would be more for formalized kind of projects when you really do need to know the date and the client and the project and title when you're being you know more formal as an agency if you will or as a video editor you would use this as just more of a proper way of saving your music and your project now you can actually add music add externally hosted so you can actually add music from other sources or from from your computer so you can still use this as a project management folder so that's kind of how you would use Q sheets most people that are just using this for like YouTube channels and so forth like myself you're probably going to just be sticking with building playlists and then using the songs that you like okay we'll come back over here and just take a look at some more stuff so you have sound type you have music and sound effects so you probably would use this from this standpoint you would go and click on music and then you would come in here and you would start looking at your genre maybe and you could go and just look at what your kind of music you're looking for let's say let's go with like some rap and hip hop right here and you can keep working your way down here and saying hey what uh length right over here so let's say we need this to be a minimum of uh two minutes and then push apply so now we have three filter Types on we have the length we have the genre then you can go with mood as well if you're looking for like Wap in the 80s or '90s or 2000s you can probably put that in right here and then Tempo how fast you want the music to be and I'm just looking over here so it does have these different pages right over here let's see if it continues so there's two pages basically of looking at what hip hop between two minutes and up and let's go and take a look at some of this obviously some tracks are going to be better than others and that's why you there's 300,000 tracks you're just going to go and find some of the ones and a lot of times you're going to find music that you really like and that you're probably going to use you know every couple videos or maybe every five videos or every 10 videos or something like that you're going to want to create like a short list I would say you know this is better than some of the other ones that I've used before that are like AI related AI music this music seems like it's a little bit better curated and edited before they actually publish it to their Library it's actually pretty good music we'll look at one more I think there's you know enough in here for everybody now one thing I wanted to show you was this little AI button over here so if I wanted to say something like I don't know songs that sound like DMX I really this would be very specific let's see if they actually have yeah they don't have that but maybe Snoop Dog let me clear all the filters right here I'm going to try again and just see what it comes up with for us nope we don't have that now I'm going to come over here and just say so I did try DMX I tried Snoop Dog it didn't work for any of those like specific artists like hey give me music that sounds like this artist that didn't really work but I did use it in a little bit more broad sense like you would use it for just like a broad music I said heavy hip hop music it did give us several tracks right here and then we can go and Sample this out essentially it's using like I said the description and the mood and everything in order to find music for you so essentially this is an AI search bar and so if you like this one you could just click this over here and find more music tracks that are like that but we can go and sample some more out want to make this one more about just showing you what kind of music is in that you can actually use in here pretty cool but I did like this Urban beats full mix one so then I'm going to click this button to for it to find more like it for the heavy hip hop music right over here and let's see what it's found for us now that sounds pretty good here's one called rush hour two and last one I think I just did that one and then here's one with bass and drums only all right so we've sampled out let's just go and Sample one more genre which is Corporate we'll clear all and then we'll come over here and just look at corporate that you would use in a commercial or something like that some of these sound a lot like some of the royaltyfree music that I've used for years and so you would use these for sales Pages or promoting a product or you know a course or something like that is are really good [Music] one just louder step by step and last one so do I think that you could find pretty much exact the exact track of royalty-free music that you need for your project yes I do I think this is a great alternative to paying monthly for subscriptions like epidemic sound and there's so many other and they usually start at least $10 a month most of them are 15 plus dollars per month this is a great alternative chance to get in at a lifetime deal unlimited YouTube channels unlimited license unlimited downloads everything and this is a software that has been around for at least 5 years let me give you my final rating okay the last little thing that I wanted to show just to make sure that I kind of showed everything that I could we went over basically everything that you can find it's very easy to use the software I just want to come up here and show just sound effects so if you come up here I like that you can just exit out or clear the filter anytime you want we can go into sound effect and then we can start looking at different sound effects so if we scroll down here there's like 12,000 over 12,000 sound effects but you're probably going to want to come up here in the with sound effects because it's not really like a genre you would really want to come in here we can just look at some samples but you'd probably want to come up here and I'll show you that in a sec but let's just go Vis some of these and I like that this track is 2 minutes you know the length of the track of the sound effect track is important to you here's Thunder PR cool a natural magic cartoon super cool right and then what if you could come up here and let's just stick with magic so if we want to go up and type in Magic and we are on uh sound effects right over here so you can see that there's 600 magic effects that we can look at here's one a paintball gun pretty cool okay so let me put my final uh rating together for you real quick so this is audio hero they have one license $99 you get unlimited everything with this this is royaltyfree premium music tracks and sound effects now the audio hero Pros that I've come up with is that it's over 5 years old it's got 5.0 ratings on appsumo it's been partnered with popular Browns like Tu buddy easy to find tracks to use amazing unlimited limits for this LTD so essentially they don't limit you you can basically download as much as you want very easy to use no tutorial needed so there was I didn't have to you know look for a tutorial on how to use this it was a extremely self-explanatory extremely easy couple filters on the left or you can use the top AI search bar to find exactly what you're looking for and you have a really nice folder and playlist feature that you can go in and just save all the tracks that you like so that you can make it really easy for yourself to go back you know let's say it's been months you'll probably download the tracks that you want put them in a folder on your computer and then just use those you probably won't even log in all the time but let's just say you change computers or you can't find the file anymore all you have to do is just go back into the software and go into your playlist or your folders that you've saved before and you'll be good to go you'll be able to find all your favorites right so then our audio hero cons I came up with that it's limited on just 300,000 tracks only not Millions this could be a good thing or a bad thing I'm hoping that audio hero only has 300,000 because they' these are carefully curated carefully handpicked and that they go through an editing process and an editorial process before they actually publish it and make it allowed in the audio hero library and after 5 years I'm thinking that's probably the case I'm sure that they didn't have 300,000 assets when they launched 5 years ago but so it's kind of an advantage in a sense if they said they had 10 million tracks how are you how in the world are you going to find exactly what you are looking for there's a point at which hundreds of thousands of music tracks is is enough right and so this could possibly depending on who you you know where you're coming from or how you look at this this might not even be a con but I mean I really can't think of any like cons themselves as far as you know very detailed things like the navigation was easy I didn't find any bugs there was no speed issues there just wasn't a whole lot of issues with this one it's not epic epid epid sound of of course but this is a lifetime deal this is something that you won't have to pay $20 a month for so it is very impressive so here's my final rating so the UI user interface I gave it a 3.8 I mean it could be a little bit more polished and the filter system things like that could be a little bit better but I mean it's a solid 3.8 I'm trying remember I'm trying not to give out fives anymore unless it's just hands down just amazing right and so I'm trying to be really fair and also I'm actually trying to find something wrong with the software there wasn't a whole lot wrong with audio hero the navigation and ease of use it was super easy no tutorial needed or anything like that I was easily able to use the software a complete beginner that's never even touched a computer before would probably be able to use a software speed and bugs I I said were superb I could give it a five here but I'm just laying off of fives for a while speed and bugs was really good 4.5 features functionality and quality I give it a 4.2 and pricing is a 4.5 as well so the final score 4.2 I would definitely recommend giving audio hero a look I purchased this I'll be keeping this license myself in case I ever need some music tracks for myself or for some promotion videos or something like that let me know what you guys think below the link will be below if you want to continue to support Ln wire and it makes it possible POS for me to bring all these reviews to you on a daily basis thank you so much for your time again leave a comment below what you thought of audio hero and I'll see you in the next video