Wow, that’s very helpful info! Finding royalty-free music is a little tricky, so thanks for the tips.

The playlist is a great idea. Note that just about every song imaginable is now on YouTube. Using the YouTube embed license to play the song on your site is greatly preferable to negotiating a separate license for the commercial use of the song.

Plus, once you have found the URLs for the YouTube versions of the songs, there are a number of ways to embed the songs into your site. One way is a “destination jukebox” that puts videos of local businesses to music at http://twavl.com/denver – click on a tile, the map tells you where the business is, and the music starts playing.

If you want to get more on commercial music licensing, this is a very readable primer on the subject:
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-licensing3.htm

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