Soundsnap share free sound effects and loops

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:10:55 +0000

How does that sound ? A community that shares free sound effects and loops. That’s right, all of the sounds posted on the website by the community are free to use in your projects and websites. You do not have to be signed in to download the mp3 or wav files from Soundsnap so it’s as user friendly as it can get.

Sound loops and effects are listed in categories like Buttons, Comic & Film FX or Music Loops but can also be browsed using the tag cloud on the main page as well. More than 25000 sound loops and effects are available on Soundsnap starting with loops of just a few seconds to loops of several minutes.

The sound effects in each category can be sorted by various criteria such as duration (longest, shortest), most popular and highest rated.

Free Music List July 2007

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:18:20 +0000

The article Free Music List December 2005 was a very successful article back in 2005 and I finally found the time to update the article with new sites and get rid of links to sites that do not exist anymore. Most of the sites listed below allow downloads even for non registered users, several ask you to register after downloading some albums and some require a registration before you can start to download or stream music.

I added genres to several sites if it was obvious and did not mention one if the site offered more than one genre. Downloads means that you can directly download music – normally mp3 files – from the site while streaming means that you can stream the music on the website.

Take a look at my article about Grab++ for a possible method to download music from sites that stream music. Feel free to add any music site that you know and is not in the list.

Major Sites:

Archive.org Netlabels

Audiostreet

CCMixter

Dance Industries

Digital Sounds Electronic Music

DMusic

Electrobel Electronic music

Epitonic

ETree.org [torrent downloads]
FOEM

Garageband

Gigatracks

Jamendo [torrent downloads, streaming]

Only Streaming:

Altsounds Alternative [streaming]
Artistopia [streaming]
Blogmusic [streaming]
Bluebeat [streaming]
CDBaby [streaming]
Download.com [streaming]
Fabchannel Concerts [streaming]
Imeem [streaming]
Intomusic [streaming]
Last.fm [streaming]
Magnatune [streaming]
Mp3.com.au [streaming]
Musicovery Find new music [streaming]
Musicmesh Find similar artists [streaming]
Musipedia Midi Files [streaming]
Seeqpod [streaming]
Soundpedia [streaming]
Stage.fm [streaming]
Stereokiller [streaming]

Blogs:

3Hive

Free Albums Galore

Gratisvibes [Download id not defined]
Large Hearted Boy

Other:

Cantaria Traditional Western European Folk

Classic Cat Classic Music

Feels Like Christmas Christmas Songs vocal and instrumental

Free Children’s Music Children’s Music [Download id not defined]
Freesound Sounds, not songs

Kahvi [streaming, download]
Karadar Classic Music, currently script problems

Lawrence

Legal Torrents [torrent downloads]
Mixposure Indie Music

MP3 Jackpot

Muzie Japanese site

New Trinity Baroque Classic Music [streaming, downloads]
Overclocked Remix remixed game music [torrent downloads]
Opsound

Piano Society Classical music

Public Domain 4U

Pure Volume

Unexotica Amiga music archive

Soundclick [streaming]
Soundlift [streaming]
South by Southwest 2007 [Download id not defined]
South by Southwest 2006 [Download id not defined]
South by Southwest 2005 [Download id not defined]
Superhits

Tonspion German site

Weed Files

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Free Music List July 2007