# Royalty Free Music?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 1, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975 "2003-10-01T20:16:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975/1 "2003-10-01T20:16:49Z")

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Are there any resources on the net that provide royalty free musical tracks (or musical loops) for commercial use (small business)? Thanks.

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### Author: ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975/2 "2003-10-01T20:30:48Z")

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Do a web search on “royalty free” and music. [Here’s one.](http://www.royalty-free.tv/rftv/frameset.htm)

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### Author: ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975/3 "2003-10-01T21:00:45Z")

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Sorry, I should have elaborated. What I meant was, I need Royalty Free music tracks that are free as well (not purchase cost).

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### Author: ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975/4 "2003-10-01T21:35:46Z")

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A recent Kuro5hin article on [legal music downloads](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314) has tons of links, many of which, like [Soundclick](http://www.soundclick.com/), offer free downloads.

The commercial use thing is probably trickier–for example [MP3.com’s terms and conditions](http://http://www.mp3.com/terms_conditions.html) appear to allow only personal use, while Soundclick doesn’t sem to impose that limitation.

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### Author: ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royalty-free-music/204975/6 "2014-06-12T14:12:48Z")

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Reported.