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Royalty Free Stock Music and Sounds

• Probably the best-known collection of open-sourced sound files. Mixed rights, so you should check and follow the rights declared of each file indervidually.

• Youtube audio library. Ostensibly for use in youtube videos, but rights-free so can be used anywhere. Music and sound effects

• A project to make accessible the huge library of recorded materials available in the US Library of Congress collection, many of which are public-domain. The full collection at is a little harder to navigate, but also contains video, pictographic and written materials. Rights and permissions are mixed, so you should check and follow the rights declared to each file.

• Huge library of NASA sound - space, rockets, speeches, mission radio comms etc. Educational use only, and use should be attributed.

• A great source for royalty free music of various genres. Mixed rights - mostly attribution required

• The BBC SFX library with over 16,000 sound effects. We have this in CD form on campus and they are also on the Teaching Drive. Not for commercial use.

• Free sound effects and royalty free music. Attribution required.

• Free and royalty free sound effects and music. Attribution required.

• Free and royalty free sound effects.

• Free and royalty free sound effects.

• Free and royalty free fonts.

News & Community

• Music, art and tech news.

• Articles on the subject of music and technology written by Liz Pelly.

• Articles on the subject of music and technology written by Cherie Hu.

• Holly Herndon / Matt Drydon podcast on the subject of music and technology.

• An online destination that takes you behind the scenes into the world of audio post-production for feature films, video game sound design, and original soundtrack composition.

• soundgirls.org directory amplifying women in audio and production.

• An online creative music recording magazine.

• A pop music podcast hosted by Rick Rubin.