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Free Music for Your Videos
- dfee 6y agoI was thinking about putting up some long, but silent, video on YouTube (probably an hour or two in length) - but didn’t know where I’d get some backing audio. Unfortunately these sound clips look quite short (2-4min). Can anyone suggest where I’d find longer tracks?
- MitPitt 6y agoAn easy way to get long ambient tracks is use Paul Stretch on literally any audio. Try taking some royalty free track and paulstretch it to 2 hours in Audacity.
- app4soft 6y ago> Can anyone suggest where I’d find longer tracks? Check OpenGameArt Music[0] collection. And if you need a background for too long videos just use those tracks which are "loops"[1] [0] https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&field_art_type_tid%5B%5D=12&sort_by=created&sort_order=DESC https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&field_art_... [1] https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&title=&field_art_tags_tid_op=or&field_art_tags_tid=loop%2Cloops&name=&field_art_type_tid%5B%5D=12&sort_by=score&sort_order=DESC&items_per_page=24 https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=&title=&fie...
- fdiskl 6y agoFreemusicarchive is the place where a lot of people typically get music. You can search by license, genre, length, etc.
- sheinsheish 6y agoarchive.org the net label scene.
- Gualdrapo 6y agoMy always go-to site is Jamendo. An active community and really great music.
- perdamgaard 6y agoThanks. It lools interesting.
- fdiskl 6y agoany reason to not seed this with the massive semi-curated collection of cc-by music on freemusicarchive?
- qguiller 6y agoOne licence and better music with audiak.com
- wilsonfiifi 6y agoThanks for the link. If you don’t mind, can you explain how this is different from what NCS (No Copyright Sounds) [0] is offering? [0] https://ncs.io/ https://ncs.io/
- qguiller 6y agoThe Music on NCS are not under creative commons license.
- packetlost 6y agoNCS has some (very minimal) terms of use that you have to comply with: credit the artist. Creative Commons licensed work has no such requirement.
- detaro 6y agoWith the exception of CC0 (which usually isn't actually considered a Creative Commons license, and not the license used on this site), all Creative Commons license require attribution.
- packetlost 6y agoAh yeah you're right.
- Mobleysoft 6y agoCan these be used in a commercial feature film? If so, what is required attribution wise?
- qguiller 6y agoOf course you can! Attribution is recommanded to support the artist.
- joshuaissac 6y agoAttribution is required not just to support the artist, but also to comply with the CC-BY licence terms.
- greypowerOz 6y agomaybe just my old android tablet, but i only see a list of tracks/ thumbnails vertically, with no search by genre, author, tag, length etc. Is it just me ? Nice idea though. thanks
- callahad 6y agoThe site claims that the music is available under CC-BY. In at least one case, this is not true. Caveat emptor.
- qguiller 6y agoAll music on the site are licensed under CC-BY 3.0, please go to the profil artist to Check this!
- callahad 6y agoBoth tracks by Atch (https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/overyou https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/overyou and https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/freedom https://soundcloud.com/atch-music/freedom) state: > "My music is free to use on social media AS LONG AS credit/attribution is given. To credit me correctly and avoid a copyright claim, you must copy and paste the below text into the description of your videos [...] If you wish to use my music for commercial purposes (online advertisements, podcasts etc), you will need to purchase a license. Please contact me at ..." Edit: The SoundCloud metadata for all listed tracks does claim CC-BY 3.0. But in the case above it's clear that the artist does not actually intend for their tracks to be subject to the terms of that license. So what takes precedence: the copyright holder's statement, or the machine-readable metadata?
- qguiller 6y agoThe most important is to see the license CC under the title. The artist find a way to earn money.
- qguiller 6y agoAnd yes, it’s CC-BY 3.0
- dylz 6y ago> If you wish to use my music for commercial purposes (online advertisements, podcasts etc), you will need to purchase a license This clearly makes it not CC-BY. Maybe CC BY NC?
- MadMatt13 6y agoI've been watching a lot of Travel vlogs recently, I am moving out to a new place next month. It's crazy how all those tunes sounds exactly the same. Great project though. I just wish those "CC BY artits" would be more creative.
- eurekin 6y agoI wish someone would explain how this actually happens. I've had many takes at this exact topic and always ended up feeling most provided reasons are just speculation. One of the better takes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI Still, no info from actual producer as to why he made the music as it is.
- fdiskl 6y agothere are some cc by artists on freemusicarchive who are quite original. the ones that immediately come to mind are Kevin MacLeod, Andy G. Cohen, Jahzzar, Scott Buckley
- thn-gap 6y agoIn the upload form I see the following > This way, a track originally released as "free" becomes into a "copyrighted" song by a third company, affecting severely our reputation and making impossible to promote any other of your tracks. How can someone use free music without risking either: a) the music was never free to use, and someone else uploaded the copyrighted music owned by someone else. b) the music is later copyrighted, and you are then infringing the copyright. Do I understand copyright law wrong? Assuming you make a commercial product with it, you get screwed over this.
- steerablesafe 6y agoIANAL but I don't think that works can become copyrighted. It can be distributed with a license for free use, but then that license can't be revoked after the fact. The license could be non-transferable and the work can be distributed with a more restrictive license in the future by the copyright holders, or not distributed at all. None of these should affect those that use the work legitimately with the permissive license given to them in the past. edit: Maybe if a license is revocable or not must be spelled out in the license itself. Many open licenses seem to be explicitly irrevocable. edit2: More on this topic https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4012/are-licenses-irrevocable-by-default https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4012/are-lice...
- comboy 6y agoI think the question was what if the music is stolen. E.g. imagine clone of a GPL github repo but with MIT slapped on it.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoThe problem is that Content ID systems are tangential to the law. They are private systems developed to cover tech companies collective asses. It is easier for them to take down all content matched in their content ID system than to verify the validity and legal ownership of every track uploaded to their system. The latter is very hard actually. I guess a solution would be for original creators to be able to upload their content to the content ID system and mark that content with the correct license. Then free to use content could be uploaded and scammers could be punished. I don’t know if this is already a feature they support.
- web007 6y agoNo contact info, no terms of service or privacy policy, not even an About page to describe who/what this is. All downloads are hiding behind bit.ly or dropbox links, so there's no clear attribution of where they're coming from. This _feels_ about as scammy as it can get. It's possible that everything is above-board, but I would not feel safe using this content for anything public-facing.
- bromuro 6y agoIt does not feel scammy to me. I appreciate a website without the stuff nobody reads :)
- schwartzworld 6y agoI can see a link to the SoundCloud page of each artist next to the download link. When I click through, all the artists seem to give some sort of permission to use their work freely.
- jasonv 6y agoSoundcloud used to be an awesome source for this kind of thing, but their product development has made it harder and harder to find CC tracks by genre. Recently found and used a track that was free to use, but they would demonetize the track on Youtube. Tricky.
- easton 6y agoAnother good site for royalty-free music is Incomptech, it more than did its duty in my high school TV Production class... https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
- fdiskl 6y agoyes, Kevin MacLeod who runs that, also has well composed and just good music. also, it isn't a half-shady looking site like the one linked by OP