Sound content repository

Hereby are listed all our known usable sources for sound (such as musics, special effects, noises, voices, etc.) content.

Among the sound resources, one can find soundtracks, which are pure instrumental musics created from specific synthetic low-quality sounds, played at different pitch and time. They were the only possible sounds that first entertainment devices could play, due to serious hardware limitations. They often trigger some nostalgia among people who experienced this first audio artwork.

Often found in demos as well as in video games, the hardware constraints resulted in the composers spending more efforts on pure melody and rythm, with great success. They were the precursor of what is called nowadays electronic music. One can listen to the Nectarine Internet radio, to remember the good old time !

Now one can find a large majority of CD-quality recordings belonging to all musical genres, available with licences that allow to distribute music far more freely than with the major labels. There are often known as Libre Music.




List of sound content providers
Project name Description Licence Direct link to the content
WorldForge
Perhaps the leading content project, provides game creators with, among other things, music and sounds. Maybe a bit hard to browse, but a significant and growing amount of digital content is already available
Disjunction of the FDL and the GPL
Go for music / SFX
Art Libre
[in french]
A project gathering music and other content in an open-source-like way of freedom of distribution, with respect to the intellectual property of the authors
LAL
Go for music
Lune Rouge
[in french]
The website of an association for audio-video creation and film-making
  • for sounds : LPM or LAL (both permitted)
  • for 2D and 3D objects : LPM or LAL (both permitted)
  • for textures : LAL
  • for musics : undefined at the moment
Go for musics / sounds
GNU Art
GPL artwork : animation, plastic arts, painting, photograph
GPL
Go for music
Prografix
[in french]
This website centralizes sprites, textures, 3D objects and sounds coming from various other sites
Depends on each website
Go for sounds
iDevGames
Lot of high quality content, only usable if the Apple platform will be targeted
iDG License
Go
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share
CC License
Go
Magnatune
Magnatune (we are not evil) is an online music label which bypasses usual circuits, for the profit of all. Lot of good quality songs, in various genres.
Magnatune License
Go
Agnula Libre Music
Agnula created a publicly accessible database of Libre Music, i.e. works which have been put by their authors under a license which allows free redistribution and usage
All musics use either Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License, Attribution 2.0 License or EFF Open Audio License 1.0.1 [more infos]
Go
FindSounds
Audio search engine
Depends on the sounds
Go
Sound Dogs
Online commercial sound effects and music library by Hollywood sound editors
Commercial
Go
Flash Kit
Sound effects and loops
Freeware, Linkware, Shareware (depending on the content)
Go





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Last update : Friday, February 23, 2007