Music & Sound Effects

Free & Low Cost Music & Sound Effects

Background music sets the tone for your videos, intro and outro segments, logo stings and other projects, and makes a big contribution to their success or failure. So it's important to choose the right style and tone of music to fit your particular project, but the cost of buying music tracks for each project can soon add up. Luckily you don't need a big budget in order to have great music and effects in your videos – especially when you know about these FREE and low-cost audio resources!

All Music & Audio
Background Music
Music Loops
Sound Effects

Ben Sound

A really great collection of original music tracks that are free to use under the Creative Commons license, but they require attribution unless you pay for them. Browse eight different genres and preview each track online before you download. As always check the licensing terms before using your specific project.

Flash Kit Loops

A huge archive of royalty free music loops for you to download and use in your projects.

Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive is a collection of Creative Commons and Public Domain tracks. Browse by 16 different music genres, and then sub-genre too if you need.

Free Sound

A collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds, some free of attribution and some requiring attribution so be sure to check which license you need to adhere to.

Looperman

A loop is a short piece of music, anywhere from 7 to 30 seconds or longer and you can find a ton of these here. You can lay the loop in any audio editing software end to end many times for as long as you need the music to play.

MixKit Music

Discover astounding free stock music tracks from a growing audio library to use in your next video editing project. All audio clips are royalty free and can be used with no attribution or sign up required. Find perfect tracks for background music for YouTube videos, podcasts, and online advertising. Enjoy unlimited downloads across genres such as hip-hop, lofi, cinematic and more.

Pond5 Music

A great resource for free Public Domain music tracks with around 2,396 to choose from. Filter by duration and tempo. Use the built-in search function and the filters on the left hand side to filter by duration and tempo, as well as for free only as they also sell premium Music, Videos, After Effects templates and more.

Soundgator

Nicely categorized sound effects with a handy search facility. Browse through Human sounds, Machine sounds, Nature sounds, Sports sounds and many more.

Soundscrate

SoundsCrate is a great website with both royalty free Sound Effects, royalty-free Music Tracks, Jingles and more. The free, standard membership gives you five downloads per day.

YouTube Audio Library

YouTube has a large range of both sound effects and music tracks, spread over different categories and music genres. Search and sort by Category, Genre, Mood, Instrument, Duration and whether or not attribution is required.