6 Sites to Use for Stock Music
Where to Find Free Stock Music
With apps such as TikTok becoming increasingly popular, free stock music has become a must when posting new content online. You want your videos to be appealing, but sourcing everything you need for them can be a challenge. Whether you’re marketing your own products, a business, or making content for fun, videos and reels have dominated social media.
However, there is a restriction on some of the media we use. Images and music often have a copyright on them, so even though they may be free for download, it is not always legal to use them. This is why “royalty free” music is something you need to know about if you’d like to add music to your videos without it being.
If an audio clip is royalty free, that means it has been produced for unlimited use with no license fees owed to the publisher or composer of the music. Contrary to what some believe, free stock music if not necessarily poor quality but you may find some tracks are better quality than others.
Top 3 Sites for Free Stock Music
1. Free Music Archive
This royalty free online music library has been around since 2009. It started with a collection from a New Jersey radio station that now works with other radio stations, making this a DJ-driven library.
The Free Music Archive provides music under Creative Commons licenses so anything you download form here is legal for you to use in your own media.
2. Free Play
On the Free Play site, you can search for an appropriate track by scene, mood or genre, making it easier to find the right track without having to browse through hundreds of songs. With over 50,000 songs in this collection, you have the option of first playing the song directly on the site to see if you like it before downloading it.
3. YouTube Audio Library
If you’re looking for a track that is a sound effect, soundtrack or any other type of music for a video, then YouTube’s Audio Library has an extensive royalty free collection. You also have the option of searching an audio clip by length, mood, instrument as well as filtering by other categories.
Something to note is that sometimes there is a requirement to credit the artist, even though the music is free.
Top 3 Sites to Purchase Stock Music From
1. PremiumBeat
As a paid site, PremiumBeat offers various license packages that will suit your specific needs. They offer a standard subscription/license fee where you can download five tracks per month at $64.95 ($12.99 per track).
The process of buying the package and then downloading your required songs is streamlined and the site has excellent customer.
2. Music Vine
Music Vine offers two packages:
Pro Lite, which will cost you $19.99 per month and is aimed at users who want to make smaller productions for things such as weddings, corporate videos, content marketing or indie films.
The Pro Standard package starts at $35.99 per month and this package offers music that has full clearance for advertising, marketing, entertainment and informative content.
3. Foxi Music
Foxi Music offers a larger variety of packages where you can pay for a personal license or a commercial license for each track. The more tracks you purchase, the cheaper it gets, so it all depends on what your specific needs are when downloading stock music.
Costs vary from $24 for one track, and up to $149 for ten tracks on the commercial package.
How to Find Stock Music
It really is as simple as doing a Google search for free stock music. However, it can get rather frustrating when searching through the endless number of sites that advertise free stock music, especially if you don’t know which ones are recommended and trusted sites.
There are sites that are paid, where a subscription fee or a license fee is required, as well as sites where it is free to download tracks. It will be up to you to have a look at some of the options we recommend and then you can decide what will work best for your specific needs.
Once you’ve chosen a site that you’d like to use, it’s as easy as browsing through the available songs and selecting the one that is most suitable for your video clip or reel. There is a handy “download” button next to or underneath the track and when you click it, it will download directly to your device.
Once it is saved on your device, you will be able to upload it to your video using any video creation app or program that allows you to add music clips.
