Free music resources

Audio tracks are always helpful, but they’re especially important if you work in the field of animation, games or video creation. The following platforms provide stock audio and deliver soundtracks, loops, instrumental music and other types of audio for free.

YouTube audio library

YouTube Audio Library offers a straightforward way of getting high-quality audio that will correspond to your website. Use filters (instrument, attribution, mood, duration and genre) to pick the most appropriate tracks. The platform captures the majority of modern genres – rock, hip-hop, R&B, folk and some others. Besides, you can find tracks from movies.

The service stores almost 1,400 tracks and some of them can be used both for personal and commercial purposes.

Free Stock Music

Free Stock Music offers royalty-free music for your projects, such as blogs, vlogs, social networks and podcasts, as well as YouTube videos. To avoid any copyright issues, make sure to add the attribution in the credits. You can browse tracks by category, license, length, mood, tempo, and keywords.

TeknoAxe

TeknoAxe cab boasts 1,522 music tracks and weekly updates. There are 27 musical genres on the platform. You can use any composition for both videos and film projects. Moreover, you’re allowed to use music in order to monetize videos on YouTube.

All the musical content on the platform is covered by the Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), and you should give credit to share and change their audio tracks.

Machinimasound

Machinimasound is a free website that lets you search tracks by mood or genres. It’s tiny storage of original royalty-free audio content primarily composed and produced by brothers Jens Kiilstofte & Per Kiilstofte.

Stingers (small bites of music that usually last up to 20 seconds) are also available to enhance your motion graphics, YouTube channel intros and more. You can find out tracks for movies and gaming apps there.

Note that when downloading a free track, you can use it only for listening.

Amazon

Amazon offers royalty-free vocal compositions and instrumental tracks for personal YouTube videos and any other projects like short marketing clips. You can see top albums to choose from and get the opportunity to listen to the track before downloading. The platform offers a tremendous amount of content and they’re really not repetitive.

The platform has a paid Amazon Music Unlimited subscription that costs $7.99 per month but currently, it’s free for the first three months of use.