Free Sound and Music for your Website and How to Edit It
Where to Find Free Sounds and Music and how to Edit it.
Sometimes you need sounds and music clips to add to videos or on your site. Videos are a big part of the Online Business Reef model and we use videos in our sites as visual enhancements, for monetization purposes on sites like YouTube, and to help teach in a more visual way for today’s young entrepreneurs who seem to prefer visual learning.
FreeSound.org – is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds pretty easily.
Musopen – is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
ccMixter – artists freely contribute their music and talents to the collective for co-creation. ccMixter.org is operated by volunteers. ccMixter is free of ads and free to listen. And, you can freely use our creations in your videos, remixes and apps as long as you attribute the work.
Audionautix – No Fees. No ©opyright Hassles. Incredibly Free
Sound Cloud – is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere.Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks.
Free Music Archive – is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.
Audacity – is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.
Wavosaur – is a cool free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert.
WaveShop – is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 32-bit and 64-bit. WaveShop is fast, lightweight, and bit-perfect, meaning samples aren’t altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched. Blocks of audio can be cut and pasted without changing their contents at all. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither. Waveshop’s features include peak, RMS and spectral analysis, normalizing, fading, sample rate conversion, audio generation, plug-ins, and more, all with unlimited undo and comprehensive help.
