Communications: Find Audio Resources

Musopen provides access to public domain music and allows users to upload music that is in the public domain.

Copyright free historical music that can be used for educational purposes. The list can be browsed by genre.

Repository of copyright free audio files.

17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.

Over 33,000 BBC Sound Effects--from across the world from the past 100 years--made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. A "mixer mode" function allows the user to layer, edit and re-order clips from the archive to create their own sounds, mixes, and soundscapes.

Free music (and more) for your Projects by Eric Matyas. Only requires crediting the author for legal use (see "attribution info" page).

The Creative Commons website includes an option to search for Creative Commons content across numerous image platforms, such as Flickr.

Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, etc., released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

This service allows users to limit their searches to only music that is licensed under specific Creative Commons licenses using their Advanced Search features.

A list of musical products available on Bandcamp under the Creative Commons licences.

SoundCloud is one of the world’s largest music and audio platform and you can search for creative commons music.

All materials are released under a Creative Commons license (the "Attribution-ShareAlike license"). Users need to register to access the sound pool.

This is the main page for listing full length free content musical works available on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

This website helps users to create and share mixes and samples that are Creative Commons-licensed.

An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by the radio station WFMU.

Library of hip hop beats available under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike Licence.

A library of audio resources uploaded by the users of Internet Archive.

A library of free music and sound effects by YouTube. Each track is accompanied by information on the use.