Copyright Friendly Resources: Find Music & Sound Effects

Remixes and samples for creating your own remixes licensed by Creative Commons.

Sound Cloud is a music sharing community for composers. While not all content carries creative commons licenses, much of it does.

The largest catalog of music under Creative Commons license with more than 25,000 albums. Includes rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop and dance tracks.

Music composed and recorded by Jason Shaw and licensed under Creative Commons for use in audio visual projects.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. Compiled and managed by WFMU Radio.

All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly non-commercial, both for access here and for any further distribution. This collection is maintained by the etree.org community.

A collection housed at the internet archive of user-contributed music. All music is released under Creative Commons licenses.

Free-Loops.com provides free loops and audio clip downloads to the music production community.

Kevin MacLeod is a professional composer who creates royalty-free music that can be found on his site, incompetech.com.

Collection of free sounds effects and web links to other online collections. Also includes royalty free tracks for purchase.

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps and more released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.