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.
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.
Steve, thanks for posting that site! I have used Kevin MacLeod's music on a few projects (he is the artist who shares his stuff via that site). I think it's so cool that he is willing to share his work so freely, even for commercial use.
Another source for audio is soundsnap.com. Although the downloads cost a little bit, the prices are pretty reasonable (especially if you by a larger package) and they're royalty-free.
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.
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 )
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
Sound bible.com has some free sound effects or at least the did the last time I checked.
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.
Try http://www.freesound.org/home/ . It's not always the best quality, but has a lot of free stuff. You can filter your search to only show Creative Commons effects, or just look at the little grey symbols next to each track.
@Kevin - Thank you so much for posting Kevin MacLeod's site. I found the absolute perfect music for my presentation, so your post really saved my bacon! Mmmm... bacon.
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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.
Steve, thanks for posting that site! I have used Kevin MacLeod's music on a few projects (he is the artist who shares his stuff via that site). I think it's so cool that he is willing to share his work so freely, even for commercial use.
Another source for audio is soundsnap.com. Although the downloads cost a little bit, the prices are pretty reasonable (especially if you by a larger package) and they're royalty-free.
I've snagged some movie and audio clips from the public domain archives.
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
Stock Music Boutique has some very cool tracks too http://goo.gl/SvYkd
Just found and excellent resource: 30 Creative Commons Sources
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/
Here's another site for Royalty Free Music:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
You can also get individual songs at:
http://www.musicloops.com/
I've used ccMixter for some short tracks. I even downloaded a couple of songs for my own listening pleasure.
http://ccmixter.org/
Forgot to mention that PartnersInRhyme donates a portion of every purchase to charity:
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/wmcstore/faq/charity.html
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.
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
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 )
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.
You could also check out www.Jamendo.com - they have some great free resources.
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
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.
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!!
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.
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.
Sound bible.com has some free sound effects or at least the did the last time I checked.
Try http://www.freesound.org/home/ . It's not always the best quality, but has a lot of free stuff. You can filter your search to only show Creative Commons effects, or just look at the little grey symbols next to each track.
There's also BenSound which delivers great tracks for free and it's organized by topic/ambiance.
@Kevin - Thank you so much for posting Kevin MacLeod's site. I found the absolute perfect music for my presentation, so your post really saved my bacon! Mmmm... bacon.
If you are looking for Royalty Free Audio then you can visit http://www.buydigitalstuff.com
You can find there many various genres of music on license at affordable prices.