Soundcloud: In between the millions of songs that there are on Soundcloud, there are some that are available for free use.Enter here only if you didn’t find what you’re searching for, they have good music. NewGrounds: Experimental sounds and songs for video games.If not, we can buy the music for $30 each. Creative Commons licensing by attribution is free (attribution MUST be given to make this legal), but they do suggest a $5 donation as a kindness. The use is limited to personal projects, if we want to put their music on professional ones or on Youtube we will have to purchase a license. Bensound: Over 70 songs ready to download.To use them, we should mention the artist in our project. Free Music Archive (FMA): Free songs under Creative Commons license.They have a library of awesome Stock Music, Stock Video Clips and Premiere Pro Templates as well. Mixkit: Completely free website for video creators.Premiumbeat Free Music: You’ll find incredible quality among the tracks that Premiumbeat offers as well for free, classified by genres, mood, duration, BPM, instruments… an amazing resource.
More information on how to do that below. Probably we would have to attribute the author.
To clarify the subject, we have made a brief summary below with all the basics:
Not playing by the rules can lead to bad surprises, like your video being removed from Youtube or Facebook because of Content ID, receiving copyright complaints and, even in the worst-case scenario, a lawsuit, since the ignorance of the law does not exempt from its fulfillment. The world of Royalty-Free music on the Internet is complex, as there are a wide variety of types of licenses and it is not always clear to which we should stick to. You will not be able to monetize your video or product that has the music.The Youtube algorithm, called Content ID, can detect that you don’t have the rights to use that music.The free license can change at any given moment by the author to become a paid license.You must read and understand what they mean, one by one. Every webpage and every song are under different free licenses.You will have to attribute the author -mention it- somewhere.
You will not be able to use it in professional projects.