Open Source Soundtracks
Attribution Reminder
Remember, be sure to attribute any libre soundtracks you use to the original author either in credits within the video or the text released with the video (ie: youtube description field).
Commercial Use
Here we link to a few cherry-picked songs/albums that are libre for commercial use.
- Welcome in the intox by Bluemillenium
- Saturdays Basement by Analog By Nature
- Guitar Quartet w/ Stems by Aussens@iter
- Falling (Suddenly) by Siobhan Dakay
- Dirty Soul by Orbique
- The Lift by Seventh Gear
- various pieces by Advent Chamber Orchestra
- The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) performed by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber
Non-Commercial Use
And here's a few cherry-picked songs/albums that are libre but non-commercial.
The Internet Archive
We can search the entire IA for items licensed by CC-BY or CC-BY-SA (excluding any NC or ND items) using the following query
licenseurl:http*by* OR licenseurl:http*by-sa* AND NOT licenseurl:http*by-nc*
We can further refine the query by limiting to audio-only items by adding AND mediatype:(audio) to the query:
licenseurl:http*by* OR licenseurl:http*by-sa* AND NOT licenseurl:http*by-nc* AND mediatype:(audio)
For better results, we can limit it to the collection produced by the free music archive by adding AND collection:freemusicarchive:
licenseurl:http*by* OR licenseurl:http*by-sa* AND NOT licenseurl:http*by-nc* AND mediatype:(audio) AND collection:freemusicarchive
For more information about the cryptic syntax for searching IA by license, see this Internet Archive search guide
CCMixter
- Ccmixter.org hosts music freely shared by artists. The uploaded soundtracks are licensed under Creative Commons licenses, and most are Non Commercial.
You can search for non-NC tracks on ccmixer using the following URL:
* http://beta.ccmixter.org/stems?lic=open
Others
- Jamendo - [1] - royalty-free access
- Type in Free Techno on Google - http://www.entropymusic.com/ and others
- RoyaltyFreeMusic.com - [2]
- MyMusicStream.com - [3]
- FreeLoops.com - [4]
- Guitar Improv from Lucas. Better than Madonna's Human Nature.
- DJBLUE - Mind Field -
- Awesome soundtrack - what is it? - [5]