Free Music and Sound FX Files
December 11, 2007

Free Music and Sound Resources (for Video and Podcasting assignments). NOTE: Not all of these are in the public domain but they are free to use with a link back to their site or a credit in you video/film. Be sure to read the web page's 'terms of use' before using in your project!

• Absolute Sound Effects Archive
• Public Domain music
• Incompetech Royalty-Free music
• PacDV Free Sound FX
• Taylor Hayward (a few classical original compositions free to use)
• Internet Audio Guy (sells music but offers these tracks for free)
• MPFree
• SoundBible.com
• Free-Loops.com
• Music for Video
• Derek R. Audette
• Open Music Archive
• Public Music Project
• The Free Site
• A1 Free Sound FX
• FreeAudioClips.com
• Partners in Rhyme
• Free music on MP3.com
• PacHD sounds
• Acoustica
• Simply the Best Sounds
• The Recordist
• The Freesound Project
• Wav Central
• WavSource.com (free sound fx)
• the Wilhelm Scream
• a Dramatic Chord sound
• Castle Thunder (vintage) as AIFF
• Cricket sounds (always useful)
  • Single cricket
  • Multiple crickets
    • WAV
    • MP3
• the Red Tailed Hawk (classic sound file)
  • WAV
  • MP3

 

Can't find the sound or music you want? Try a Google search (that's how I found these sites).