The best royalty-free music libraries for photographers and videographers 🎧

A frequent question from our users is, where can I download music for my photography website? If you have decided to create a photography website in Arcadina, our websites allow you to include background music in your galleries or presentations. That’s why we’ve created this article where you can learn about some free and/or paid music libraries ideal for photographers and videographers that can serve you for sure. In some of them it is necessary that you register to be able to download this music and/or they have a cost of the license of use, but always you will find a part of music free and without cost. It is important that you read well its policy of use, each resource is different and has its conditions.

Watch out! Free music doesn’t mean free music or free of all copyright. Rather it means music with “some rights reserved”, as there is always small print that we must read. The license chosen by the artist is the one that determines which are the authorized uses and under which conditions. The authors have simply preferred not to be part of the SGAEBMI, ASCAP…, but let’s just as a photographer’s work must also be recognized as art and have rights when it comes to being reproduced.

1. Jamendo – jamendo.com

A music bank to which many artists belong under the Creative Commons license that offers free licenses that allow artists to protect their rights. Jamendo proposes licenses with a cost for its commercial use of music (uses in advertising videos, documentaries, sounds for Internet pages or any other multimedia use).  You will love its ease of use, organization of music by categories, player, very intuitive. One of the best music banks for photographers, if not the best.

2. Bensound – bensound.com

We are on the website of the French musician and composer Benjamin Tissot who, after composing music for the last ten years, has had the great idea of sharing it with everyone. Here you find entire songs free of copyright, you should not pay anything to Benjamin, he just asks you to give him credit for his music on your photographer website. a music bank of the most altruistic.

3. Free Music Projects – freemusicprojects.com

Free Music Projects is a portal that offers royalty-free music at affordable prices. It has several licenses that allow you to use it legally. You can get music for your photo website with the basic license. So from 9€ you can find quality music that goes perfectly with your work.

4. Free Music Archive – freemusicarchive.org

It’s an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is run by WFMU,

the most renowned free-form radio station in the United States. Radio has always offered free publicaccess to new music. Sorted by categories so you can easily choose the style you like best. You are sure to find your original song for a wedding video that you are assembling. A colossal, endless bank of music, enjoy it.

5. YouTube Audio Library

This royalty-free audio library can be found within YouTube Creator Studio.

If your main reason for wanting to find royalty-free music is to use it as the background for your YouTube videos, you don’t have to look at any additional sites. For some years now the most famous video platform on the network incorporates this service through which we can put music to our videos with a simple step. It includes a catalogue of a multitude of songs that we can select by genre, instrument, duration and even mood and then include it in our videos easily and quickly. It also includes different songs that can include additional advertising in our videos.

6. Vimeo Music Store

The video platform Vimeo also offers a free music library for its users.

You can find it at https://www.freepik.com/audio/music.

Following the line of YouTube Audio Library, Vimeo Music Store offers us a free music library free of copyright. It doesn’t have a catalogue as extensive as the previous one, but it does have many and varied songs to add to your videos or photo samples.

7. Audionautix – audionautix.com

It may have a somewhat more neglected interface and usability, but it has an extensive and well-classified music catalog.

8. FreePik

Royalty-free music library created by the multimedia resource platform Freepik.

You can find it at https://www.freepik.com/audio/music.

It offers thousands of free music tracks that you can use in any project. You can use this free music in both personal and commercial productions. You will find all the music catalogued by genre, mood, most popular, most recent tracks or a selection that they themselves will choose to surprise you.

**Arcadina does not have any commercial agreement with any of the sites mentioned in this article. This article has been created with the sole intention of advising and helping Arcadina’s user community.

Create your photographer’s website with music in Arcadina

Our photography websites allow you to put a background music to the web presentation and galleries. In this way you will be able to create a complete sensory experience that will make your visitors and customers enjoy your website more.

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