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Want music for your video?
Sure, Rihanna’s “Shut Up and Drive” is the perfect song for your solar car video. Unfortunately, unless Rihanna personally gave you permission to use her music, you won’t be able to upload a video containing her song to MIT TechTV.
Unauthorized use of someone else’s content — including music, video, images and other media — in your uploads is theft and therefore doesn’t fly on MIT TechTV. Check out our Copyright Policy and Terms of Use for what’s OK and not OK to upload to MIT TechTV.
Does that mean your videos have to be music-free? No way. There are lots of royalty-free music sites out there. Some have contemporary songs, mixes, and loops that are licensed by their creators under Creative Commons, or CC, and some have older songs whose copyrights have expired and are thus in the public domain.
Here are some good examples. Some of the sites below require setting up a free account:
http://www.publicdomain4u.com/
Copyright-expired songs, including a lot of good blues and jazz.
http://www.musopen.com/
Musopen takes music (mostly classical) that is in the public domain and has it recorded by individuals and college/community orchestras throughout the U.S. and stored online so it can be accessed for free through this website.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
An archive of CC-licensed music that’s available for download via P2P. You will need P2P software (e.g. BitTorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/) to download on jamendo.
http://www.sectionz.com/cc.asp
An electronic music community that offers CC-licensed tracks from genres like IDM, drum ‘n’ bass, and ambient.
http://www.opsound.org/index.php
Music samples and links to websites of artists whose work is CC-licensed.
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
A collaborative database of CC-licensed sounds (NOTE: these are samples of sounds — like rain falling — not music).
http://ccmixter.org/
A community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under CC licenses. Click on the MP3 link of your chosen song and, under your browser menu, click File, Save As to save the MP3 to your computer.
http://ibeat.org/
A music production wav file archive: Loops, beats, fills, shots, samples, packs and instrumentals, available under a Creative Commons License.
NOTE: If you do your own search for royalty-free music sites, be sure to read carefully. Some sites (excluding those listed above) have hidden fees, subscription costs, or unreasonable obligations.
Make your own: Of course, you can also make your own music with easy-to-use software like GarageBand (comes with every Macintosh) or MAGIX Music Maker (for PCs, costs around $60). Here are some other resources for music composing software:
Visitor Suggested Sites:
- http://www.makingmusic.net/
- http://musicmoz.org/Computers/Software/Windows/
- Archive.org has lots of cc/free/open source music (as well lots of other cc/free/open source content).
- PremiumBeat.com – Used this site once back when I first got started. Haven’t used anything else since. (from Melanie)
- LoudFeed.com – another handy site I use regularly. (from Melanie)
- www.antiqcool.co.uk – See comment below from Pete on Feb. 4, 2010
- goingware.com – listing of many more free music websites (from Joanna)
- www.worldhiphopbeats.com – I offer 100% free beats & instrumentals that can be used on any sort of project from movies to music. (from Scott)
- http://probangers.com/ – Free rap beats and instrumentals (thanks for the link Ryan)
Send us links to other good sites and we’ll add them. Thanks!
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Thanks a lot for the links mate..
I’ll check it now
Nice list.
We run a Creative Commons licensed site, with podsafe music, and production packs. The audio archive contains high quality wave files in a shot, loop and session divide. Perhaps you would consider adding this to the list?
Another good site is Soundsnap.com, where you can download free fx, sounds and music.
Freesound rocks in you are into soundscaping.
Cheers from DK
You are right. i will use these helpful link to find music for my video.
thanks for sharing these links
cheers
Resim
An excellent list you’ve compiled here. More useful sites for obtaining free and legal music downloads under a creative commons license are Foxtunes and Goingware. These should keep you safely out of the clutches of the RIAA
Thanx so much for sharing the list bro .. Stumbled your blog..
Btw, do you think windows movie maker is good option to make videos ?? what all softwares would you recommend for video creation
Windows Movie Maker and iMovie are two decent FREE video editing applications. They are great for making some basic videos (which is all most people are doing). If you wanted to go higher end, we use Final Cut Pro and find it allows us to do absolutely everything we need to do, but it also costs a decent amount of money and only runs on Macs. Let me know if I can help with anything else.
Archive.org has lots of cc/free/open source music (as well lots of other cc/free/open source content).
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Thank you for all the great links. I have been thinking about using music in a video I am about to make but was not sure.
By the way, is adobe after effects worth my money or is Microsoft Movie maker just as good? Thanks Again!
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Most of our tracks have been released under a non commercial creative commons license and made freely available for radio stations, podcasters and independent filmmakers to use in their shows/films.
We are an independent record label not a big bad corporation out to sue you for file sharing, we WANT you to spread our music around.
With such an overcrowded market place giving away your music is essential in my opinion. The biggest problem for emerging indie artists today is obscurity, not piracy. To find out more listen to The Antiqcool Podcast
http://antiqcool.podbean.com/2010/01/22/the-antiqcool-podcast-episode-1-how-can-you-be-a-part-of-our-success/
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Nice resource for royalty free music, thanks for putting it up for us!
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good I need some music to do some anime videos, you know a video with a good song and some anime images, do you look something a video Evangelion video clip with Angel from Rammstein, simply amazing.
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Best resource for royalty free music,I think jamendo.com is the best one.
Using iBeat.Org also and it is really cool. Great tips in this article, thanks
Should be carefull with copyright!
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Thats rather interesting, I was unaware of all the free ways to obtain music. Thanks for the links, I look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thanks for the resources. Great
that’s great list. thanks for sharing it
i personally recommend public domain. ive got an account there and it works great.
I like this blog and didn’t know about a lot of this information. We create music as well for TV music beds.
Thanks for posting these links, these great resource for royalty free music will i use for my video. I always use Final Cut Pro for my video’s and these links for music are great for Final Cut Pro. And yes it cost a decent amount of money but you do have great software for everything what involves video making.
Nice resource for royalty free music, thanks for putting it up for us!
Hey h=thanks so much for the links! I will check them out and come back and let you know if I found anything I will keep on my playlist!
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I have to late to come here. Publicdomain4u.com is that for expired song? Could you explain about it? Sorry, If I give stupid question
I’ve used ibeat.org and it’s been great. I get music for all the videos I make and there’s a lot of original songs and music I use there. I’ll have to check out the rest of the list. Thanks
Indeed some nice resource. thanks for updating us.
I did already use some music,
its always great to come across sites with such good resource of music..
and i am really a music lover !! so thanks for that .
this is a very great music links, i really like it
freesound uber alles! using it since 2006, and it keeps growing!
very good urls
ibeat.org and freesound.org is what I need for now…
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