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50+ Royalty-Free Stock Music Sites

May 10, 2010 By 22 Comments

Have I mentioned I’m a prodigious list-maker?

I am.  My shrink has yet to explain the significance.

With Google around, it may seem a moot point, but then again, Google only provides search results, and the list I have here today is sifted, winnowed, filtered and somewhat vetted.

Voice-Actors are always looking for royalty-free, stock music, music beds, sound effects, looped tracks, and public domain music (must be 1922 or older, BTW).

HERE‘s a great site that explains public domain, copywriting, and music copying principles.

Reading below, you’ll see a list that I’ve compiled from — first — my trusted friends at the VO-BB (Voice Over Bulletin Board), and secondly from a Google search using the terms “royalty-free”, “music-beds”, “public domain”, and “stock music”.

I can tell you that I visited each site, and found them all to be exactly what they claim to be.  Not all sites are made the same, but you’ll see a lot of similarities among them:  free download samples, graduated pricing structures, an occasional calendar special, packaged specials, and a spectrum of music genres.

Digging into some of the sites will yield sections that offer looped tracks, special effects, stingers, and sound effects.

I’d recommend checking out the first ten-or-so on the list before going deeper…but they’re all genuine.

CourVO

http://www.digitaljuice.com/

http://www.footagefirm.com/

http://www.pond5.com/

http://www.stock20.com/commerce/index.php

http://www.mymusicsource.com/

http://www.yopo.co.uk/

http://www.radio-mall.com/stxold.htm

http://www.tracksnow.com/shopping/catalog/

http://www.shockwave-sound.com/

http://www.sound-ideas.com/

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

http://www.flyinghands.com/

http://www.cssmusic.com/

http://www.smartsound.com/

http://www.soundsnap.com/

http://www.findsounds.com/

http://www.killertracks.com

http://www.musicbakery.com/

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/

http://www.mediamonkey.com/

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/free-music.html

http://incompetech.com/static/music/

http://www.publicdomain4u.com/http://www.publicdomain4u.com/

http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php

http://www.stockmusicstore.com

http://www.freemusicbeds.com/

http://www.mysourcefor.org

http://www.freshmusic.com/

http://www.audiomicro.com/

http://www.beatsuite.com/

http://www.opuzz.com/

http://www.premiumbeat.com/

http://www.royalty-free.tv/

http://audiojungle.net/

http://www.primaryelements.com/

http://www.loopsound.com/

http://www.iamusic.com/

http://www.whitebeetle.com/

http://www.pdinfo.com/

http://beatdock.com/

http://www.productiontrax.com/

http://www.buyabeat.com/

http://www.studiocutz.com/

http://www.stockmusicsite.com/

http://www.allmusiclibrary.com/

http://www.buyoutmusictracks.com/

http://www.sounddogs.com/

http://www.sfxsource.com/

http://www.bbm.net/

http://www.stonewashed.net/buyoutmusic.htmlhttp://www.footagefirm.com/

(Author’s note:  the following two added 5-20-10 from suggestions of the ones I missed – also see next blog article)

http://www.jewelbeat.com
http://www.doschdesign.com/products/audio/Dosch_Trailer_Music_Sounds.html
(another added 6-13-10)
(another added 6-25-10)
http://www.musicrevolution.com
(another added 12-14-10)
(another added 3-15-11)
(another added 6-11-11)
(this one added 8-17-11)
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Comments

  1. Guy Lewis says:
    May 10, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    Hi Dave, if you get the chance It would be great to see you add AmbientMusicGarden.com to your list as we offer all our music royalty free as well.

    Many thanks,

    Guy Lewis

    Reply
  2. Greg says:
    May 11, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    Looks like you missed one of the top 5.
    http://www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com

    Reply
  3. Linda Ristig says:
    May 13, 2010 at 10:39 am

    Hi Dave!

    Here’s my current favorite for royalty free music:

    http://www.BobsMusicCafe.com

    (They also have terrific customer service!)

    Best,
    Linda

    Reply
  4. Levi says:
    May 17, 2010 at 8:51 am

    I’m with Greg. I have used http://www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com twice. Music is good and licensing is easy to understand. (which isn’t always the case with some royalty free sites)

    Reply
  5. Ian Kirton says:
    June 13, 2010 at 3:23 am

    Hi Dave,
    I would really appreciate it if you could take a look at our new royalty free music site and maybe add it to your list. http://www.music2license.com.

    Best wishes,

    Ian Kirton.

    Reply
  6. Chris Cardell says:
    June 24, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    You should also consider MusicRevolution.com (https://www.musicrevolution.com), an innovative new online marketplace for royalty-free production music. I am the Co-Founder.

    Chris Cardell

    Reply
  7. Andrew says:
    December 13, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Please consider http://www.directcomposer.com
    It really is a whole other level of cutting edge stock music.
    I think you will love it.
    cheers

    Reply
  8. Brad Whiting says:
    December 21, 2010 at 9:49 am

    That’s a great list, I do a lot of multimedia for work, so I’m always looking for more music to add to my library.

    Reply
  9. rty_oleon says:
    February 19, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    check out http://www.freestockfor.us and http://www.allourstock.com both 100% free (Creative Commons licensing)

    Reply
  10. ajlst21 says:
    March 14, 2011 at 11:23 am

    I like the list, not sure if this made it or not, but there is plenty of decent SFX and audio and music over there… http://stockfuel.com

    Reply
  11. Jerry says:
    March 15, 2011 at 8:01 am

    Wow! This is a fantastic list of royalty-free stock music sites. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them with us here. This will save us an awful lot of time with voice over and video production! And the fact that you actually took the time to check each one of the 50+ websites out yourself is an added plus. I will DEFINITELY be blogging about this and sharing your website with my readers over at my blog, http://cheapvoiceoversandvideos.blogspot.com/. You offer a lot of truly valuable resources for the voice over community. Thanks again!

    Reply
  12. Joe says:
    April 28, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    I currently enjoy using http://www.soundjig.com for free royalty free music and sound effects.

    Reply
  13. Leanne says:
    June 10, 2011 at 7:31 am

    Another site to be added to this list is http://www.stockmusic.net. We provide royalty free music licensing for all media forms and do custom composing as well. Not to mention we have witty and fun track descriptions so that you don’t get bored as you browse.

    :)

    Thanks for making the list!

    Reply
  14. Charles Johnson says:
    August 16, 2011 at 3:26 am

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    Thanks C.J.

    Charles Johnson
    Koenig Media, LLC

    Reply
    • CourVO says:
      August 17, 2011 at 12:55 am

      Charles,

      Thanks for tipping me off to this site. I chuckled about your reference to “my students”. This is just a blog for VO talent where I share whatever information I come across that enables my peers.

      I’m not only going to add your site to the current list on the previous article, but I blogged about soundbible.com and other recent adds to the list on Today’s blog.

      I appreciate your stopping by to let us know!

      Dave C

      Reply
  15. TheGuy says:
    August 20, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Killertracks.com is not rights managed, not royalty free

    Reply
    • CourVO says:
      August 20, 2011 at 8:48 pm

      Thanks for stopping by, “guy”…

      Educate me/us. What’s the discinction here? Is Killertracks.com illegal? Is Killertracks.com breaking some rules? Does in not belong in this list? In short…can you flesh-out your comment a little.

      I’d really like to know.

      Thanks for taking the time to raise the flag.

      Dave C

      Reply
  16. Manuel says:
    November 29, 2011 at 7:34 am

    Hello people,
    I want to share a new royalty free music site with pianos music tracks
    There are many genres and moods with high quality sound.
    http://www.royaltyfreepianos.com

    Reply

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