7 Sources of free music and sound for podcasts and co.
Podcasts and online videos are more strongly in the come. Thanks to iPod and co, you can consume this media now everywhere and at any time.
But it is not easy to produce a podcast or Videocast itself. Since the competition is now very high, you should have a good quality and excellent content.
But the music and the sound contributes significantly to the quality of a Pod-or Videocasts.
free music
Simply load music from the Internet and then assemble into the own podcast can be costly. Rights are on on all music heard on the radio to daily and therefore you may use as easy it as background music in podcasts.
I would like to present today therefore a number of Internet sites where Pod-and videocaster can get (almost) free and legal music and sounds.
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On GEMAfreie worlds are music and sounds more than 20 hours. Not so much that listen to at first glance, but because most songs and sounds are quite short, a respectable number is reached.
The music and the sounds are although not free but very cheap. To be paid one for the Personal Edition (which includes also podcasts) sounds 2-3 euro and for music around 10 euro.
It has thereby then but don’t like the security that is legal music and the GEMA does not arrive and money.
DOMAIN.COM music database
Archive.org should be already known to many readers. There are archived websites not only but also music. So we find live recordings and normal music.
The images may be used only for non-commercial use.
DOMAIN.COM
DOMAIN.COM is a hobby project collects free music and sounds. You will find here only sound and music you can use freely.
The collection is quite large and you will find useful things for the own podcast with security. The website lives but also the fact that users participate and “donate myself files”.
The Freesound project
A collection of sounds under Creative Commons license is in the Freesound project. The emphasis on sound, not music is.
However, when any sound you should watch for what purposes it may be used. The most pieces need only note from the author, but otherwise freely usable.
DOMAIN.COM
The counterpart to the above Freesounds project is the website DOMAIN.COM.
Collected songs are under Creative Commons license.
The selection is large and found something here in any music direction. The individual pieces is always about how it may be used.
DOMAIN.COM
free, 4,000 of total 8,000 music and sound files are available as mp3 downloads at DOMAIN.COM. All files may be used also commercially and are free of rights of GEMA or other collecting societies.
Use the 4,000 premium sound requires an annual license for 99,-euro.
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DOMAIN.COM find while not free, but relatively cheap for sound files. They are a professional quality and particularly for demanding Pod-& videocaster.
It is of course possible that factory listen sounds, before you buy it. Podcasts requires a business license. Prices vary, are always to around 10 euros gross per unit.
more music and sources
Here are a few more sources for sounds and music. Read by you previously exactly the respective regulations.
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