Free music
You should familiarize yourself with the relevant licenses and find out if your situation falls under a free license.
Let's make a reservation right away that the steps described here are suitable for finding and downloading music for personal and non-commercial use. For example, to create a video congratulation that will be shown for free on a family party.
Of course, you can search for music for commercial use in the same way, but you need to familiarize yourself with the corresponding licenses yourself and pay the appropriate fees, if required.
Jamendo Free Music Collection
The jamendo music service allows you to use a fairly large selection for non-commercial purposes great yet totally free music. The collection is constantly updated and contains the widest selection of various musical styles and directions, for any mood. We are sure you can find music to your liking.
Learn more about licensing https://www.jamendo.com/legal.
1. Open Jamendo
Open https://jamendo.com in any browser.
We select the option on the left, for non-commercial use.
2. Search and download free music from Jamendo
Search fields at the top of the page - you can search by genres, moods, song titles and artist names.
To play the found music, click on the title or on the picture.
To download, click the icon on the right.
3. Add music to video editor
Add the downloaded file using the upload button.
BBC Sound Effects
For more than a century of history, the BBC has accumulated more than 33,000 different sounds from all over the world, which can be use in your videos for personal, educational or research purposes.
Learn more at https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/about.
License https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/licensing.
1. Open BBC Sound effects
Open in any browser https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk.
2. Find
At the top of the page there is a search field, enter a word or phrase there strictly in English describing the required sound: For example aeroplane, auto, bit, forest, waterfall, cat.
Or use the directory search - "Browse All BBC Sound Effects".
3. Download sound file
To play the found sound, click on the play button or anywhere on the sound diagram.
To download a sound, click on the icon on the right, and then select download as an mp3 file.
4. Add sound to video editor
Add the downloaded sound file using the download button.