Stock music can be useful in delivering a better message and bring entertainment to your podcast, web video, or advertisement. Consequently, royalty-free music can be costly if you use various types of tracks for your commercial projects. Luckily the world wide web provides us with both paid and free stock music websites.
Following our blog post from 2013, free stock images, we wanted to compile another useful list for people looking for free audio tracks. Nice, huh?
Here are 10 FREE stock music websites
- dig.ccMixter
- Facebook Sound Collection
- Free Music Archive
- free-stock-music
- Incompetech
- Joystock
- Mixkit
- Musopen
- SoundCloud
- YouTube’s audio library
We also provided descriptions of licensing and requirements when using the sites’ stock music for commercial use.
1. dig.ccMixter
This website has a section for free stock music, which is limited, for commercial use. The only caveat is you have to give credit to the musician.
2. Facebook Sound Collection
Facebook has its own platform, with over 8,000 tracks of different moods and genres, with no restrictions on commercial use.
3. Free Music Archive
This site offers multiple types of licenses many of which allow you to utilize music for commercial use. Depending on the track you must credit the artist and sometimes not.
4. free-stock-music
Over 3,000 songs and sound effects, this website has multiple types of licenses one of which is free to use, and no credit is needed for commercial use.
5. Incompetech
Incompetech provides two licenses one of which is free to use commercially as long as you attribute the artist.
6. Joystock
Joystock has a variety of genres even that “corporate” one. Using music for adverts is allowed as long as you credit the website.
7. Mixkit
Sorted by genres, moods, and tags, these royalty-free music tracks can be modified and be used in online marketing advertisements.
8. Musopen
Musopen has multiple types of licenses including public domain.
9. SoundCloud
A lot of users upload their music here which can be used commercially. With that in mind check each track for their specific usage requirements.
10. YouTube’s audio library
YouTube’s audio library of songs has over 100,000 tracks for you to use commercially.
How we can help
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