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A collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, and recordings released under Creative Commons licenses.

Unique high quality sounds recorded around the world, royalty-free with attribution.

Thousands of free stock videos, motion graphics, music tracks, and sound effects (Opens a new tab).

Users are free to use this music in multimedia projects, websites, and animations as long as the source is credited.

Use music for free with attribution or buy once and use forever.

Free and royalty-free music, attribution may be required.

The free remixes featured on this website are licensed under Creative Commons. You can download, rip, remix and share most these songs, free and legally. See the specific license agreement for each remix for any restrictions that may apply.

These sound effects downloads are free of charge for you to use in your movies. The sounds are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Free music and recordings by Kevin McLeod published with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Database of free audio loops, samples, spoken word, and other sounds. Also includes some free music software and plugins.

A selection of free music tracks from Moby, intended for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.

Offers free and royalty free sound effects and clips for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend sound warriors.

Find over 5000 free sound effects recorded, designed, and produced by a team of audio professionals. Free to use for projects as long as you follow the license agreement.

Royalty free sound effects for use in commercial or non-commercial projects.

Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Open Vault contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools available for individual and classroom learning (Opens a new tab).

This is a collection of 1450 sound effects tracks recorded by producer Greg Smith during his 20 year career in the film and television industry. This collection was provided to the American University Library for the benefit of filmmakers and video and audio producers around the world (Opens a new tab).

These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational, or research purposes, as detailed in the license (Opens a new tab).

Great resources for folk and historical music. Downloadable midi files can be easily remixed. Read Contemplator's use guidelines for proper attribution (Opens a new tab).

Audio and MP3 library containing over 2,000,000 free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these files are available for free download (Opens a new tab).

A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions (Opens a new tab).

This searchable database features all types of recordings made from the late 1800s to early 1900s, including popular songs, vaudeville acts, classical and operatic music, comedic monologues, ethnic and foreign recordings, speeches, and readings (Opens a new tab).

Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.

Discover 34,619,208 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

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