Free-to-use resources

This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses.

Historic music from USA for educational use.

Offers free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world. Reuse depends on licence terms, check individual song.

Select royalty free music and check tracks for specific licence requirements.

Free music released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Can use under the Mixkit Stock Music Free License. Read user terms https://mixkit.co/terms/

Resource for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.

Musopen’s goal is to be the largest online repository of music in the public domain. Contains music recordings and sheet music.

Freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'. Non commerical use only.

Piano rag presented with both an audio file and the corresponding sheet music. Most music is in the public domain. Some copyrighted but available with consent of the composer via this site.

Download music for free and for use in YouTube videos. For use in a project outside of YouTube then use only the songs licensed under a Creative Commons license. Check the author's website to be sure there are no additional restrictions.

Database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and bleeps released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

Free sound effects and music for use in projects. Read the standard licence: https://www.zapsplat.com/license-type/standard-license/ .

List by KS Ashutosh, updated April 2023. Some variation in usage rights. Check licence terms.

Available under the RemArc licence. For non-commercial, personal or research purposes or for formal education purposes while you are a student or member of staff at a school, college or university.

Over 5000 free sound effects recorded, designed and produced by a team of our audio professionals. Our team owns the copyrights to all the sound effects on this website and you can safely to use them in your projects. Just remember to read the License Agreement.