Looking for some good tunes for a personal project online? The Internet is a treasure trove for legitimately free stuff like free sound effects, free stock videos, free vector images, or free 3D models, there are many sites that offer a variety of good resources if you have the time to look for them, and that includes music under creative commons license that you can use for your projects.
Previously, we have compiled a list of 20+ websites you can download free background music under the creative commons license for your project. If you’re on a limited budget or don’t have one to spend on music, you may be able to find some free background music in these extra 20 sites. In return, just credit the sites when using the music.
A unique and straightforward business-style site that provides royalty-free music that you can download easily. Just choose a song and add it to your cart, then pick your song license type (personal license is free) and proceed to checkout. You don’t even need to use any credit card if you are downloading it using a personal license.
This large flash games and animation site has been around since 1999. In 2003, they collaborated with musicians all over the world, leading Audio Portal to grow massive. You can get almost all kinds of audio genres on their site, and they are mostly under common creative license.
Phlow-Magazine is a magazine-themed site that collects the finest songs all over the web from netlabels and musicians that release music under a creative commons license. They provide a wide range of genres such as techno, hip hop, house, pop, rock, and a lot more. Their latest project is about #366DaysOfMusic where they release a free MP3 music download each day for 366 days.
Bensound is a composer and musician living in France. He has been writing music for a little over 10 years and have had his music featured in many projects before. His collection of royalty-free music can be downloaded from his site with the request of credit if it is used for any project.
The 2 people behind Machinima sound are Per Killstofte and Jens Killstofte. They also produce music on the site. Their purpose is to provide media creators with quality music, and push Machinimasound to be at the forefront of this industry. You can download and use their free music for both personal and commercial use as long as you provide credit.
DL Sounds is a site that caters to those who are looking for fresh tunes, loops or samples to be used in projects. This site has been around since 2009, and even now, they are still providing high-quality music and royalty-free music to their customers.
A good source where over 15,000 tracks are being downloaded daily. SonicsSquirrel is a platform for netlabel music distribution with the aim of promoting free music and making the work of its artists available to the public easily.
Another site to for netlabel music, sortable by genre. Just read the creative common license and download away. SoundShiva relies on community donations to keep going in return for promoting fresh tunes by new artists on one easily accessible platform.
Midnight Cassette System
The Midnight Cassette System is a collection of music made using a portable music device MadPlayer. The recordings can be downloaded for free because the producer Frank Edward Nora decided to release all the recordings under the Creative Common license: CC0 1.0 Universal. There are so far 55 hours’ worth of public domain music available for non-commercial and commercial use.
Sound Jig
Here you can get plenty of MP3 to use, free of cost or royalty. The only thing required of you is to link back to the site if any of their audio is used. Sound Jig provides audio ranging from sound effects to music loops, in a variety of categories like animals, futuristic, ambient electro, hip hop and many others.
Jimmyg
Jimmy Gelhaar is a prolific writer who has composed a variety of music styles throughout his career. He is a student of the piano, guitar, and percussion instruments. All the music on his site is composed by him, and you can download and apply his music for your project for free but only for personal use.
Get pre-recorded musical composition or sound clips for projects such as advertisements, computer games, promotional videos, business presentations, etc. There are a variety of music genres available such as rock, smooth, jazz, funky, techno and etc. Look for recording with "Usage Status" indicating that its Free and you can use that in your project with a credit back to the site.
This is one of the easiest way for you to download background music for your videos, given the fact that there are now around 150 tracks available for immediate use in YouTube audio libraries. YouTube users can use royalty-free instrumental audio tracks both in and outside of YouTube.
This archive that was known as Open Source Audio has been renamed to Community Audio. It contains many audio files that are licensed under Creative Commons. The entire site is known as The Internet Archive, a non-profit internet library for everyone to access historical collections in digital format. In the community audio section, you can download all kinds of audio files, ranging from the blues, country, electronic, experimental, hip hop, indie, jazz, rock and spoken word.
Free Stock Music wants to provide you with a platform where you can get the absolute best production music at no cost at all. You can download and use music on their site for any kind of production even for commercial ones. The music can be downloaded in 3 different formas: WAV, AIFF, MP3.
