With the popularity of short videos, everyone has a mobile phone and can shoot at any time. In a sense, everyone can be a video creator. Compared with written content, videos contain a richer level of information. They include images, narration, and background music to enhance the atmosphere. As copyright becomes more and more important, cases of infringement caused by improper use of audio materials are common.

Although some mobile phone editing software provides audio or soundtracks for free, the scope of use of these audios is usually limited to the software manufacturer's own App. For example, there is no problem in using the BGM provided by Jianying on Douyin, but you may publish it on other platforms. There will be copyright risks.

A safer approach isto use copyright-free audio material. So, in today’s article, I share with you 10 copyright-free audio material websites.

01. Audio Library

Audio Library, probably the largest free music platform, has a great collection of high-quality music available tocontent creators.

Click the More button in the upper left corner of the website. In the menu that opens, you can press the music's "Type", "Mood" and "Artist" "Three dimensions to classify and search music.

When using copyright-free music downloaded from Audio Library, you need to mark the source and author information. The website also provides the marking style of the music source on the download page. Click the button in the lower right corner to copy.

The music provided by the Audio library is mainly used by creators who upload videos to Youtube. If you want to use the music from this website on other platforms, you must contact the music author yourself to obtain authorization.

02. Adobe Audition Audio Library

Adobe Audition is an audio processing software launched by Adobe. In order to facilitate users to create excellent audio works, Adobe provides a free audio material library, which contains 10,000+ high-quality audio and music materials.

This audio material library does not support keyword search and online preview, but it packages and compresses the audio materials according to different categories. There is a large number of audio materials, so you can download the audio material compression packages you need first.

According to Adobe's End User License Agreement (EULA), you are free to use, modify, and distribute the audio material provided by this library when the audio material you use does not constitute the main value or core content of the final distributed product material.

But to be honest, I still have some questions about this authorization method, and I couldn’t find a more detailed introduction on the official website. If any of you reading this have knowledge about this, please feel free to add more or popularize it in the message area~

03. Free Music Archive

Free Music Archive, translated as Free Music Archive in Chinese, provides many free music files based on CC License (Creative Commons, i.e. Creative Commons) Audio materials are available for users to download freely.

Through the CC license, we can download music created by many music creators for free. At the same time, when using these materials, we need to follow the specific requirements of different versions of the CC license and avoid behaviors restricted by the agreement.

In order to facilitate users to understand the requirements of each version of the CC license, Free Music Archive also provides detailed instructions online:

• CC BY: You only need to be signed when using it, and it can be used for commercial purposes. It is the loosest requirement in the CC agreement.
• CC BY-SA: Attribution when used. If you process and recreate the original work, you need to use the same authorization method to distribute your work.
• CC BY-NC: Attribution when used, not for commercial purposes.
• CC BY-ND: Sign your name when using, and no changes may be made to the original work.
• CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution when used, not for commercial purposes. If you process and recreate the original work, you need to use the same authorization method to distribute your work.
• CC BY-NC-ND: Sign when using. It cannot be used for commercial purposes, and the original work cannot be modified. This is the most stringent authorization method in CC collaboration.

Free Music Archive is one of the few websites that introduces the differences between different versions of the CC license. Understanding these contents will also be helpful not only for audio materials, but also for other artistic fields, such as pictures or videos.

04. CCmixter

CCmixter is also a website that provides audio materials that comply with the CC protocol. The website does not support using keywords to search for music. You can only use Music Style, Theme and < strong>Instrument played and other tags to narrow the search scope.

In addition, the right side of the webpage also provides other options for filtering audio materials, such as whether the audio is commercially available and the number of beats per minute bpm. The smaller the bpm value, the slower the song's rhythm /strong>, otherwise the rhythm will be faster.

05. Bensound

Bensound is a website that provides copyright-free music. The navigation bar divides the music into multiple categories, such as film music, pop music, electronic music, jazz and rock, etc.

You can use the website's music for videos posted online (such as YouTube, Vimeo, social media, etc.), websites and animations, etc. Just mark the source when using it. The website gives examples of marking:

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Music: « Song Title » from Bensound.com

If you want to use music in software, games or online courses you develop, you can also use it for free by marking the source of the music without making any profit.

06. FUGUE

FUGUE is a music material website launched by the design website Icons8. The material can be used for non-commercial use for free. When using it, you must mark the website link to Icons8.

The music materials on FUGUE are very rich, and the music materials are classified according to three dimensions, namely the theme, style and mood of the music.

Under each dimension, the website provides a more detailed classification. Taking the Music Theme dimension as an example, it is divided into multiple subcategories such as action, adventure, war, business, animation and Vlog.

When selecting music materials, you can select appropriate subcategories from three dimensions and use combination filtering to improve the efficiency of material search.

Of course, the increase in search keywords may bring more accurate search results, but it will also reduce the number of optional music returned.

Therefore, when actually searching, you can choose the number of search keywords more flexibly. You can also use one or two keywords, but it is not necessary to use three at the same time.

07. Mixkit Music

Mixkit is a website with the same conscience as Icons8. We have used Mixkit's video materials before. The website looks good, the video quality is high, and it can be downloaded and commercially used for free.

Unexpectedly, Mixkit later launched an audio material website Mixkit Music, which adopts the same licensing method as Mixkit. It is free to download and can be used commercially without citing the source.

The audio material websites introduced earlier are all foreign websites, and some of them require the use of network proxy for normal access. To facilitate everyone's access to the website and search for audio, some domestic audio material websites are introduced below.

08. Aigui.com

Aigei.com is a domestic website that focuses on free materials. It provides sound effects, soundtracks, videos, 3D models and other materials. Since this is a domestic website, it is more convenient to find materials than foreign websites.

Aigei.com provides two types of audio materials. One type is sound effects. Sound effects can generally play a role in embellishment and setting off the atmosphere in videos, such as cicadas, birdsong, etc.; the other type is Soundtrack is what we often call video background music.

Both types of audio materials on the website have a music library partition that follows the CC protocol, which means you can download these materials for free, but when using them in practice, you also need to pay attention to the instructions on the right side of each piece of music. Authorization requirements:

Some music is free for commercial use with attribution, while others can only be used for non-commercial purposes.

If you find it troublesome to check the licensing requirements of music one by one, you can use the "Advanced Options" function at the top of the page to quickly filter out commercially available music materials through "License".

When searching for music, Aigei.com supports multi-condition filtering. When filtering, in addition to checking for commercial use, you can also add music "theme", "mood" and "genre" as filter conditions to narrow the search. range of music to find music that meets your requirements faster.

09. Erling.com

Erling.com is a website that specializes in providing sound effect materials. These sound effect materials include sounds from the natural environment, vehicles, fireworks, instrumental music, animals, etc.

The materials on the website all comply with the CC agreement. After registering and logging in, you can download it for free. Regarding the authorization method of a certain audio material, you can move the mouse to the CC agreement icon under the audio to see detailed instructions for use.

When you use keywords to search for audio, you can enable "Only show sounds that are commercially available" in the returned results to exclude audio materials that are not free for commercial use and avoid unnecessary trouble in subsequent commercial use. .

In addition to sound effects materials, Erling.com also has an interesting function - "Sound Map", which places field recordings with location information on a digital map Perform aggregated display.

Click any positioning icon on the map to listen to audio uploaded by local users. The right side of the playback panel that pops up at the bottom of the webpage will display the location information.

By scrolling the mouse wheel, you can view the audio from different cities in more detail. The picture below is a recording of Cantonese hawking near a vegetable market in Guangzhou. Listening to the authentic Cantonese spoken by the uncle selling the goods, you suddenly feel that life has a little more fireworks.

10. Taosheng.com

Taosheng.com aggregates resources from well-known sound platforms at home and abroad, covering audio materials such as game sound effects, film and television soundtracks and field recordings.

The website uses a card-style design to present audio materials. Each audio material provides the audio source, author and license information. These audios have a clear free authorization license. It is convenient for users to avoid copyright issues when using it.

It is worth noting that even for free licensed music, there are subtle differences between them. The official website of Taosheng.com also briefly explains these differences. After understanding it, you can be aware of it when using it.

When searching for audio materials using keywords, we can use the "Advanced Search" function on the web page to filter the audio that is prohibited for commercial use in the returned results, combined with other filtering conditions (such as < strong>Audio duration) to obtain audio that better meets the requirements.

The above is what I want to share with you. I hope it will be helpful to you!