Finding Free or Cheap Music for Your Digital Presentations

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Need legit, affordable music for your online media productions? This guide walks you through what you need to know and points you to the sites of what you want. Included are legal download sites for both free and inexpensive high-quality music.

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Video Productions

Podcasts & Audio

Why?

Music adds depth to a production by …

• Evoking emotion

• Setting a mood

• Creating a sense of pace

Obtaining music for your works (legally)

Creative Commons License (Check which type it is before using)

• Non-commercial only

• Share alike

• Any use, with attribution

• No restrictions

You could also …

• Ask a talented friend

• Make your own

Obtaining music for your works (legally)

Some free* download sites:

Incompetech – incompetech.com

Pacdv - pacdv.com/sounds/free-music.html

Free Music Archive - freemusicarchive.org/

Partners In Rhyme - partnersinrhyme.com/pir

/free_music_loops.shtml

Sonnyboo.com - sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm

Obtaining music for your works (legally)

(but still affordable)

Many are “pay once, use forever”

In ascending order of price …

Jewel Beat - jewelbeat.com/

Audio Jungle - audiojungle.net/category/music

Audio Micro - audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music

Production Trax (look for the “Economic Stimulus”

for cheap tracks - productiontrax.com/stimulus.php

Getting the music down to size

Apply appropriate fade-ins and -outs

Note: your video editor may have

audio track editing capability built-in

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Sit back and enjoy the added dimension

of professionalism that music lends

to your projects!

Final step …

Presentation designed and created by:

Akweli Parker, Digital Delta Media

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