12 Sources for Free Public Domain Music That You Can Download Right Now Public domain music is music that has passed into the public domain, which makes it free and completely legal to download. Here are 12 sources for free public domain music that you can use to download tons of great music onto your computer or digital audio device. Note: public domain and copyright laws are complicated. Read the fine print before downloading any music. 7. The Freesound Project is a little bit different than the other public domain resources on this list. 8. Love old jazz? 9. From the University of Houston comes the Digital History Project, an utterly fascinating database of historical, public domain music divided by type and historical period. 10. Archive.org has an extensive database of public domain music, but it can be somewhat difficult to find what you want. 11. ccMixter ccMixter offers mashups of public domain songs under a Creative Commons license. 12. The Wikipedia Soundlist offers searchers all the public domain music found via Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons.
Jamendo and FreeSound: Two Awesome Sources for Creative Commons Music and Sound Sometimes it’s an unfortunate reality in filmmaking that you may not have time to work with a musician to score your project, nor to go out with a field recorder to obtain all the sound effects you need. It’s at times like these that Jamendo and FreeSound are my CC-licensed lifesavers. Each site offers a substantial catalog of audio media some of which you can use freely with attribution, some of which you can only use non-commercially with attribution, and some which the artist has released to the public domain. Jamendo also has options for relatively reasonable paid licensing for various project types, as well as a handy-looking iPhone app: As for the paid licensing, the costs depends on the type of project you will be using the music for, how long you want to license the music for, and the regions where your project will be seen. FreeSound is essentially what it says it is: free sound. Links: Jamendo, FreeSound Related Posts
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