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Where To Get Royalty-Free Podcast Music
In this episode of the Podcasting Simplified podcast, Ross discusses the best sources for royalty-free music and sound effects for your podcast. He shares various platforms where you can find high-qua...
Where To Get Royalty-Free Podcast Music
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Hey, and welcome to episode 62 of the podcasting simplified podcast.
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My name is Ross and today we're going to talk about podcast music and jingles and all
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that stuff.
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But first, you may have noticed that I have a new new cover art for the podcast, but I
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also have a new logo on podcast insights.com and it kind of all ties together and I just
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want to go a week or two ago and I think it's kind of nice, nice update and matching
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some of the existing colors that I already had on the website.
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So if you, if you notice that, yes, it's, it's new and it's still the same, same show,
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same website, everything.
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And yeah, so let's talk about royalty free music and sound effects for podcasts and
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and videos or whatever else you need.
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All those, all these websites basically will care to all your needs for audio and just
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so you know, I have a special deal for shutter stock and you can get 10% off any plans.
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And whether that's a unlimited music subscription or just a single track, you can get 10% off
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by using the code insights that's INS, I G H T S. When you check out, you'll see there's
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a little, a little do you have a coupon code, you'll click that and then put it in the
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code and it'll be applied.
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So we'll talk about shutter stock in a second, but I just want to let you know about that
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deal up front and I'll put it in the show notes as well.
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So the first one we're going to mention is premium beat and they're actually owned by
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shutter stock as well.
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And so premium beat is personally my favorite source for royalty free music and royalty
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free means you can use it as much as you want.
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You don't have to pay licensing fees to someone and you don't have to worry about getting
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sued or anything crazy like that.
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And also on that point, a lot of people ask me, can I use music in my podcast that's
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maybe on the radio or kind of common stuff?
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And the answer is no, you can't.
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And people say, what about if I only include a clip or only a couple of seconds.
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And still the answer is no, just don't do it.
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Your best bet is to just purchase some music from one of these websites and not have to
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worry about that.
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So like I said, first one is premium beat and one of the cool features they have is that
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there's a collection section where you can find hand curated tracks by them for different
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uses uses.
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So like music for food blogs or game day for like a kind of pump up type thing or action
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pack tracks and they have new music section every month and all kinds of stuff.
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So that's a great way just to get started and maybe find something that fits for you.
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You can search by genre or mood and browse around and have a great player.
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You can choose different, different amounts of time.
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And I would just highly recommend checking it out and just kind of browsing and experimenting.
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You'll find some cool stuff.
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And I believe tracks are $49 a piece.
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So next one is shutter stock and like I mentioned earlier, we have a special deal if you
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use the coupon code insights for 10% off anything.
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And so shutter stock, you might know them for their photos or maybe their footage section,
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which is for videos making maybe YouTube videos or promo videos or something.
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But they recently came out with an unlimited music subscription for $199 per year.
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So then you can get whatever tracks you want if you want to be able to change things up
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or add in different segments and stuff.
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This is a great value.
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And maybe if you want to also have music for YouTube videos, if you're doing both,
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this is a great way to go.
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They specifically say you can use it for podcasting business, social media.
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So no worries there.
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And they also do have the ability for you to get single track licenses for $49 that you
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can use for podcasting as well.
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And similar to premium beat, they have a great kind of interface and search features.
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And you can sort by all kinds of different stuff, links, beats per minute, moods, you name it.
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So definitely check it out.
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And if you do use that coupon, you can get the unlimited music subscription.
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So 10% off of $199 actually rounds up to $20 off for the year.
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So that's a pretty cool, pretty cool discounting get.
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And the next website is in Compotex.
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So this is home to thousands of creative commons tracks that are free to use for a link.
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So you just may be in sort of a link in your show notes or on your website back to them.
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And they also paid for paid for licenses are also available if you don't want to give credit to.
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And so there's there's a tons of different songs and tracks that you probably have heard of.
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So it's kind of cool.
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It's one of the most popular places for free music.
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And now we have Silverman Sound Studios.
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And this is a real high quality 100% free to use.
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And just for the price of a credit similar to the the in Compotex, you just need to kind of link back to them
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or mention them in your in your podcast.
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And then you can use it free.
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And you can also use it.
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They also have a paid option as well if you don't want to do that.
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Now we have Pixabay Music.
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So this is from the stock photography site Pixabay.
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And Pixabay Music is a new offering from them to get tracks.
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And you can filter by again genre, mood, movement, things like that.
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So it's a great great way to go.
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I would check that out.
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And those are free right now.
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Next is the free music archive, which collects music from hundreds of different artists around the world.
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And if you're looking for maybe an intro music, there's thousands of tracks to choose from.
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Like the name would suggest they're all totally free to use.
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Now we have audio notics.
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And they have a decent amount of background music.
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And it's free to use with a credit back to them.
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The interface isn't the best.
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You know, doesn't compare to some of the others.
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But you know, if you want something free, it might be another place to go and take a look at.
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Next is purple planet and has loads of tracks that are easy to search.
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They do bundles, which is kind of cool.
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So if you need like a theme, if you have like a seasonal theme,
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you can get bundles of different tracks that kind of go together.
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And they're free for credit or you can pay a small fee to license them without giving them credit.
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So kind of a common theme with a lot of the free ones is they're looking for for links or
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or money, I guess.
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Next is icons 8, which is popular icons place, but they have music as well.
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And so they have a 320 kilobytes per second MP3 tracks, which is a real high quality.
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And those are available for free if you give them credit with a link back.
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And if you want wavefile, so you've been higher quality,
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then and you don't need to give them credit, you'll pay $20 a month to get access to that.
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So a couple options there.
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I'm just going to highlight a couple others audio, jungle, free PD, pond five,
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zapsplat, free sound, sound Bible.
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And I think that rounds out the different ones.
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There are many others that you can find.
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But like I said earlier, definitely don't just use music without
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making sure that it's royalty free, which means that you're not going to get sued if you
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one of the music publishers finds out you're using it.
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And this actually has happened.
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There are some websites that or podcasts that have been sued because they refuse to
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stop using music that wasn't licensed properly.
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So I just just a warning.
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Be careful there.
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Again, my favorites are premium beat and shutter stock.
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So be sure and check those out in a whole links in the description if you want to learn more.