I found these a few months ago while scanning portfolios. A fellow at one site dropped a track behind his demo reel. Some of this stuff is really great quality. May come in handy for some polish work when you just don't have a budget. The best part is it's all royalty free and under creative commons license. http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Just found and excellent resource: 30 Creative Commons Sources http://blogs.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/

www.SmartSound.com has a cool set of features for adding high-impact royalty free music to your project. They are the only ones with this patented process that makes the music the exact length that you want. Most of the music also comes with each instrument on a separate track so you can arrange the sound to fit your project. It works great, and saves a bunch of time.

I found this link looking for free music... Brainy Betty... http://www.brainybetty.com/soundsforpowerpoint.htm

FreePlay Music is one of my favorites: http://freeplaymusic.com/

DigitalJuice.com has really good stuff called StackTraxx. They don't advertise them anymore, but if you call them they have them. Layered music so that one song can be used in a bunch of different ways. And usually pretty cheap, too.

Royalty Free Music | Articulate

GF
Community Member
14 years ago

Forgot to mention that PartnersInRhyme donates a portion of every purchase to charity:

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/wmcstore/faq/charity.html
KateRash
Community Member
14 years ago
Check out http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com , or let me know if you want to get in touch with our department that can help you figure out more about Royalty Free music and other offering/packaging with royalty free images for your training. I've been using some tracks for internal e-Learning courses and corporate communications videos.
JeffreyKafer
Community Member
14 years ago

Found some more. And these are FREE!

Audionautix Free music

Royalty Free Music

Free Royalty Free Music | Creative Commons Music | Download Free Background Music

jewelbeat
tobycharles
Community Member
14 years ago
Royalty Free Music collection from Universal Sony BMG Chappell writer - $2.00-$5.00 per track !

My music is featured on Big Brother, MTV, Sky Sports, Top Gear and others.

Over 1000 Tracks - Amazing prices $2.00-$5.00 Lowest on the Net.

Bookmark both these accounts - over 1000 top quality professionally recorded tracks

www.pond5.com/artist/futurelovers

www.pond5.com/artist/DIAMONDSOUNDS

High quality drama scores, piano works, orchestral pieces, battle drums, choral work, rock, funk, hip hop, house, dubstep, ambient and electronica.

Completely Royalty Free - full licence - no need to credit or report usage, lifetime licence, edit with no restrictions on usage ( no resale of file - other than that no restrictions )
KellyMeeker
Former Staff
13 years ago
You could also check out www.Jamendo.com - they have some great free resources.
LaurieWright
Community Member
13 years ago
Definitely the cheapest i.e. free! : )

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
http://www.danosongs.com/
http://sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php
DaveNeal1
Community Member
13 years ago

Laurie,

Thanks a heap! I've already found great stuff via your links here. I'll try to remember to post resources I find here, too.
JenniferHughes
Community Member
13 years ago
Thanks to everyone who posted links... I'm currently researching options for audio and can't tell you how much this helps. I love coming to this community, I can always get answers. THANK YOU Articulate community!!
NataliaMueller
Community Member
12 years ago
I needed to find some audio resources and remembered this thread from long ago. I just thought I'd give it a bump so new community members can benefit from these great resources too. It's been a while since the original post so as always, it's a good idea to verify any license requirements.
MargharitaNehme
Community Member
11 years ago
Thanks for sharing this extensive list everyone!! I'm specifically looking for free sound effects, i.e. harp sounds, popup window sound effects, and the such. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.