Open Source Soundtracks

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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.

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*

For example, https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby%2A+OR+licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-sa%2A+AND+NOT+licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-nc%2A

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 example, https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby%2A%20OR%20licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-sa%2A%20AND%20NOT%20licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-nc%2A%20AND%20mediatype%3A%28audio%29

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 example, https://archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby%2A%20OR%20licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-sa%2A%20AND%20NOT%20licenseurl%3Ahttp%2Aby-nc%2A%20AND%20mediatype%3A%28audio%29%20AND%20collection%3Afreemusicarchive

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

Newgrounds

Newgrounds is a website where users publish their media content, including music. Not all uploads are FLOSS, but every song has a page that shows the license in the bottom-left. Many are CC-BY.

I don't know how to search for songs with a filter showing only non-NC FLOSS-licenseed tracks, but you can view all audio tracks sorted by "score" here:

* https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/featured?type=1&interval=all&sort=score&genre=0

YouTube

Youtube uploaders can license their work under Creative Commons licenses, but I don't know how to search by them.

Here's a list of YouTube channels that upload FLOSS non-NC licensed soundtracks

  1. Regular Cannibals

Others

  • Jamendo - [1] - royalty-free access

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