Use music and sound effects from the Sound Library

In the Sound Library in YouTube Studio, you can find royalty-gratis production music and sound furnishings to use in your videos.

Music and audio furnishings from the YouTube Audio Library are copyright-safety. The Sound Library is institute exclusively in YouTube Studio.

Open up the Audio Library

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left-manus menu, select AudioLibrary.

Y'all can as well access the Audio Library direct at youtube.com/audiolibrary

Search the Sound Library

Discover music

In the Free music tab, utilise the filters  and search bar to discover tracks for your videos.

To find a certain track, enter a track title, artist or keyword in the search bar. You can also employ filters to find music by the rail championship, genre, mood, artist name, attribution and duration (length in seconds).

Refine your search results by clicking the filter  adjacent to the creative person, genre or mood of individual tracks. You can sort your search results by track title, artist proper noun, elapsing or date by clicking their column names.

Salve your favourite tracks by clicking the star icon adjacent to the runway championship. To run into a list of your favourite tracks, click the Starred tab.

New releases are added to the Audio Library twice a calendar month.

Find sound effects

In the Audio effects tab, use the filters  and search bar to detect audio effects for your videos.

To find a certain sound issue, enter a rail title or keyword in the search bar. Y'all tin too filter audio effects past category and elapsing (length in seconds).

Play and download sound

To sample a rails, click Play . If you similar what you hear, hover over the date and click DOWNLOAD to get an MP3 file.

The track will continue to play equally you lot browse the Audio Library. Using the controls on the sound actor, y'all can pause, seek and play the previous or next track.

Give attribution

If you're using a rail with a Creative Commons  licence, you must credit the creative person in your video's description. To generate attribution info, you can use:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left-manus menu, select Audio Library.
  3. Find the track that you want to use.
    • Note: To browse all music with a Artistic Commons licence, click the filter bar > Attribution required.
  4. In the Licence type column, click the Creative Eatables icon .
  5. In the popular-up window, click Copy  to copy the attribution text. Yous tin now paste this info into your video'south clarification.

If you want to find music that has a standard YouTube Audio Library licence that doesn't crave attribution, click the filter bar > Attribution non required.

Annotation: If your video uses any music from the YouTube Audio Library, a Music in this Video section will show on your video's sentry page. Bear in mind that if your video uses music with a Creative Commons licence, the attribution info is nonetheless required in your video'south description.

 Monetise your video

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you lot can monetise videos with music and sound effects from the Audio Library.

Copyright-condom music and audio effects downloaded from the Audio Library won't be claimed by a rights holder through the Content ID arrangement.

Bear in mind:

  • Merely music and sound effects from the Audio Library are known to YouTube to exist copyright-safe.
  • YouTube is not responsible for issues that arise from 'royalty-free' music and sound effects from YouTube channels or other music libraries.
  • YouTube tin can't give legal guidance, including guidance on issues with music that tin occur off the platform.
  • If you lot have questions about your apply of music, you may wish to consult a qualified lawyer.

 Larn more about what kind of content you can monetise.

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