Electronic, classic, instrumental. Do not know where to find legal and free (or cheap) music for video, then to pour it in the social network and not evaporate on copyright? Then this selection is exactly for you.
Phonoteka YouTube.
The easiest and most affordable source for soundtracks is a huge database of Youtube video hosting, located in a special section. The phonomet has three tabs. "Free music" allows you to find and download the necessary track using special filters (by genre, mood, tools, duration, or instructions of authorship). Some tracks can be used without any obligations, others - indicating the authorship in the description of your video. There is a nuance. According to the "Terms of Use", downloading files from the phonothek, you undertake to "distribute and reproduce the compositions from this library separately from video and other content in which you turned them on." This means that theoretically you can not show your video at the festivals, on TV, on the Internet sites and else anywhere, except YouTube. If you are satisfied with this and you are not afraid of the built-in advertising, you can safely use the compositions of famous authors, after checking in the "Music with Advertising" tab, which restrictions will be applied to your video. Most often, this applies to the shows in some countries and the consent of advertising reproduction before video start. In the third tab of the phonothek, there are sound effects, which, like free music, can be downloaded and sorted by categories. In order not to lose your favorite tracks, add them to your favorites. Another useful feature is a "fame" track, which is determined how often other users are downloaded.Music Store Vimeo.
Do not everyone know that the Vimeo video storage has its own phonet, in which you can download soundtracks and sound effects for free or for small money. To find the right track, you will have to be pregnant, because it is necessary to rummage in the "musical trash" of unknown authors. The search string will help sort the tracks by genre or keywords. In an extended search, you can specify the type of desired license (various variations of Creative Commons, license for personal or commercial use), the duration of the composition, the presence or absence of vocals. The site has special partitions of phonothek: "Recommendations" - with the most popular tracks; "Customizable" - with paid professional music (the cost of tracks ranges from 30 to 150 dollars, depending on the type and term of the license); "Saved Tracks" and "My Downloads" are your favorite and downloaded tracks, respectively. Thus, when choosing the right license and indication of authorship in titers, these tracks can be used for festival and commercial video.
SoundCloud.
One of the most popular resources on which users from all over the world lay out their music. To find the desired track, type the keyword in the search bar. Sort the track results and select one of the two Creative Commons licenses in filters ("to modify commercially" or "to use commercially") to find what can be used as soundtracks. Please note that only those records that have the "download" button are downloaded. We strongly advise you to go to the track page and check the type of Creative Commons license - sometimes the authors set certain limitations (more on license types can be found on the organization's official website). In most cases, it is enough just to indicate the author in the credits. To find the desired track, you will have to try a lot of requests (most often in English), taking off between different genres. We advise you to pay attention to the British composer Dexter Britain, who posted a part of his writings into open access (more on the terms of use of his records can be found on his personal site).FREE MUSIC Archive.
One of the best bases of free and good music. Here are the deposits of all sorts of compositions, which can be filtered by genres (only 15), performers, keywords and other parameters. Moreover, absolutely all tracks are in free access with the difference only in the type of Creative Commons license. So read carefully information on the page of the selected track. For cinematographers, there is a special section "Music for Video", in which there is a convenient panel for searching the soundtracks, and various records and news from blogs on filmmate are published.
Incompetech
The site of the American composer Kevin Makrood, where you can find a lot of various tracks laid out in free access on the terms of use under the Creative Commons BY license ("Attribution" - the most advanced license type that allows you to take a product even for commercial purposes, subject to the directions of authorship) .Timbeek
And this is the resource of the Netherlands composer Tim Beak, very similar in structure and design on incompetech.com. At the moment, the musician posted 170 compositions distributed under the Creative Commons BY license.
Freesound
A huge base of sounds and noise laid out in open access and which can be downloaded after free registration on the site. There are not a lot of musical compositions here, however, with careful search, you can stumble upon curious finds. Before you download the track, do not forget to check the type of license on which it is provided (indicated in the form of a gray icon in a circle).Musopen.
Library of classical music, in which there are almost all popular works of famous composers. Audio recordings and scores are sorted by several rubrics: the name of the composer, artist, tools, period and form. To download any work, you need to register. And if you need a track in excellent quality, you will have to lay out from $ 4.58 per month. In the Lite version there is still a restriction for five free downloads per day.
Audionautix
Excellent "YouTube-Fritty" resource with free music and convenient search by genres, tempo and mood (the last is a particularly convenient function for directors). By default, all works are provided under Creative Commons BY 3.0 licenses (attribution), which allows you to change and use compositions for any purpose, including commercial when specifying authorship.Mobygratis
And finally, the most unusual site with free tracks created by a Mobi musician specifically for independent film players. The well-known composer-electron-maker posted on it more than 180 compositions with various albums, including remixes. To get a cherished track and permission to non-commercial use in your film from Mobi itself, you need to register on the site and fill in a special questionnaire in English. In addition to the points "Movie name" and "Director", you need to leave a brief description of the project and the scene in which the writing will also be used, also to indicate where the video (festivals, school project, personal / home video) will be demonstrated and put ticks under the rules of use. They say this procedure is not so terrible, as it seems, and that the game is worth the candle.
Source: TVKINORADIO.