- British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
- CCmixter
This is a community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses. You are free to download and sample from music on this site and share the results…. Some songs might have certain restrictions, depending on their specific licenses. Each submission is marked clearly with the license that applies to it.
- CC Trax
This site is full of downloadable music (subject to Creative Commons licensing) to use in presentations. The tracks are searchable by keyword, genre, licensing and more.
- Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
- freesound
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps,… released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse… We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research and be integrated in third party applications.
- FXHome
We provide the following sound effects downloads free of charge for you to use in your movies. The sounds are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution. If you want to distribute the sounds yourself you must retain the readme in the zip files. If you use the sounds in a movie please credit FXhome and the sound effect author.
- LibriVox
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net for free. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for whatever purpose you wish.
- Loyal Books
Formerly known as Books Should Be Free. All audio books on LoyalBooks.com are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copyright on these books and therefore anyone including LoyalBooks.com is free to distribute them.
- National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
- PennSound
PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.” It includes literary and dramatic audio recordings.
- Pixabay Music
Pixabay, known for high quality open licensed images, now offers royalty free audio music MP3 tracks.
- ThoughtAudio
Welcome to ThoughtAudio! We offer free audio books for a selection of classic literature and philosophy titles. Click a title to access the audio and pdf document.
- ZapSplat
We’re one of the fastest growing free sound effects & royalty free music libraries with 58,520 professional, free sounds to download instantly in mp3 or original wav file format and upload hundreds more every week.
