16 sites where you can find free music for your projects

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These resources will come in handy for vloggers, podcasters, and those who work in radio or television.

1. SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a very popular resource for people looking to share songs, remixes, and podcasts. Here you can find a lot of free music for your projects.

Search for the words Creative Commons, and you will find many tracks and collections of free and free music. Alternatively, start searching for songs by arbitrary keywords, and then click on the copyright icon on the side to filter the tracks that you can use.

2. Free Music Archive

With Free Music Archive, you can search for music by title, creator name, genre, or duration. Songs are filtered by license type and application: public domain, free for commercial use, and so on.

3.dig.cc Mixter

The service is full of free music licensed under Creative Commons that you can download, mix and distribute. A good source of instrumental tracks for your movies, videos and video games. But before downloading, you should make sure that you can use a specific composition for commercial purposes - fortunately, this is indicated right in the download window.

4. Musopen

This resource contains open access classical works. Here you can download not only audio recordings, but also musical scores. There is a rubrication by composers and performers. If you want to use timeless classics from creators like Beethoven, Mozart and Bach in your work, then Musopen has everything you need.

5. Jamendo

The Jamendo Music Library features over 500,000 tracks, but not all of them are available under a Creative Commons license - keep this in mind when choosing the music you want. To display information on possible uses, click on the arrow on the left side of the track page.

6. CC Trax

The CC Trax library contains mainly electronic music: dubstep, techno, house, downtempo and ambient. You can download it in whole albums. But keep in mind that most of the songs on CC Trax are not suitable for commercial use. But you can use it in personal projects without any restrictions.

7. Audionautix

Audionautix only contains music licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This means that you can freely copy and remix tracks and use them commercially.

The only but: you have to mention the authorship of the original music creator - Jason Shaw. Yes, all compositions of different genres in this huge library are composed by one person. A nice feature of the resource is the ability to search for tracks not only by genre, but also by mood and tempo.

8. Internet Archive

Basically, the Internet Archive is known for the fact that there you can find copies of pages removed from the Internet. But there are free books, films, images, and applications … On a separate tab, there is an audio library containing more than eight million tracks - recordings of concerts, radio shows, on-air programs and much more.

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9.iBeat

The service offers free samples of drums, piano and guitar chords. You can use them if you want to create your own hip-hop or jingle track, for example, for radio, television, or podcasts.

10.blocSonic

blocSonic has a free download of 3,000 songs by 400 artists. Even if it is not so much, the music is quite varied. Be sure to check the album and artist information tab before downloading the track, as not all songs are available for commercial use.

11. Freesound

FreeSound lets you search for music and sound effects by keywords. A huge tag cloud will help out if you're not completely sure what type of song you want. Free registration is required to download.

Please note, however, that not all music here can be used commercially. So check the licensing note on the track's page to see if it's right for you.

12. FreePD

All music on FreePD is free and you are not required to credit even if you use the tracks commercially. You can pay and download songs in higher quality, but in the free version the bitrate is acceptable. All tracks here are marked with emoticons to make it easier to sort them by mood.

13. Bump Foot

Japanese non-profit label offering techno, house, ambient and IDM music. You cannot use the tracks presented here for commercial purposes, but for personal purposes - please. You can not only download and copy songs, but also make original remixes.

14. Incompetech

The music library of this site is organized by genre and mood, search by title is also available. You can download this content freely, subject to mention of the creators of the music.

Another option is to make a small donation, and get the right to use Incompetech tracks where it is impossible to indicate the authorship. For example, in radio advertisements or at corporate presentations.

15. Audiofarm

A non-profit service that collects free music. On its page you can find works by indie composers from all over the world. When you select one of them, you will be redirected to its page on SoundCloud.

16. Looperman

Looperman has a large collection of samples, loops and vocal recordings that you can use for free in your arrangements. When searching, you can select the tempo of the songs to find the best ones. In addition, the recordings are sorted according to the instruments involved - bells, drums, guitars, and others.