Production & assets
Loop-Ready Asset
A loop-ready asset is a piece of music edited so that its end joins its beginning with no audible seam, gap or level jump. It is the format required wherever music must play continuously without a fixed duration: retail spaces, exhibition stands, kiosks, apps, games and hold systems.
In practice
Making a track loop cleanly is an editing job, not a file setting. It requires matching the tempo grid at the join, carrying reverb tails across the loop point, and removing the intro build and final resolution that make a linear track sound obviously restarted. Store playlists that betray their loop every ninety seconds are a common cause of staff fatigue and customer irritation. Game and app audio go further, splitting music into loopable beds with separately triggered layers.
How SoniBuyout® handles it
Because a buyout track is yours, you can cut, extend and loop it as you need — including producing venue-specific loops of different lengths — with no clause limiting derivative edits and no per-location licence for playing it.
Real questions
Can any track be made loop-ready?
Most can, but tracks with a distinctive intro or a resolving ending need real editing. Music written with a steady core section loops most convincingly.
Do I need a special licence to loop music in a shop?
Public playback in a business normally requires a commercial licence and, for registered repertoire, society payments. Owning unregistered music removes both obligations.
Related terms
Own the track instead of renting it
Sonify Music sells exclusive buyouts of catalogue tracks: one payment, full ownership, the track removed from sale and a named certificate of ownership.