Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.
Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast, show reel, powerpoint presentation, youtube video or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you, and if not you directly, maybe someone you know.
This is not the final form. I add to it whenever I find inspiration to do so. Check back every so often as you may find more content was added when you weren't looking đ
Currently:
1210 items
766 MB download in mp3
over 9 hours of music.
Absolutely no AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.
If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks.
onj.me/shorts
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Wintergreen
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in reply to binchicken • • •Vee
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in reply to Vee • • •Monte Freeman
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Canât immediately think of a use for it personally, but I will download the zip fileâĻâĻjust in case. :)
Onj đļ
in reply to Monte Freeman • • •Monte Freeman
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Iâve noticed a trend of more and more podcasters and YouTubers that I follow, slowly dropping the music they once used as intros and outros for their content; and that makes me sad.
I get it. Feeding âthe algorithmâ is a constant battle and you have only so much time.
But the world seems diminished just a little bit more, every time a bit of music and creativity gets dropped.
I was in radio in a past life, and would definitely have used this music had I had it then.
Onj đļ
in reply to Monte Freeman • • •Monte Freeman
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Yep. Itâs definitely a way that my brain associates an artist/presenter with their work.
When the music plays, my brain gets itself ready for their content.
When I suddenly hear their voices, without âtheir musicâ; itâs jarring.
A good friend of mine used to do a podcast ( @KingShawn and âYour Mac Lifeâ).
Even today, when I see an email or social media post from Shawn, I *still* hear his theme music in my head.
Brains are so weird, and how they catalogue things.
criticalmammal
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Onj đļ
in reply to criticalmammal • • •I wanted something simple, fast, easy-to-use and a one-click download, so I made it happen.
Griselda Gimpel
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in reply to Griselda Gimpel • • •Some podcasts make 0 money, so you don't have to pay for music. If you're doing something where you'll get payment, I'd like a little cut of that.
For your payment, you get access to the collection in either.wav or .flac which is of course superior to mp3 anyway, so it's not that you're just paying for the same files you already have access to. I don't believe in that.
Griselda Gimpel
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Got it! I'll keep that in mind.
(I'm currently working on an audio drama/fiction podcast. It would be awesome if it made money, but right now, I'm in the "will be happy if I can pay my voice actors rather than obtaining their services via bartering". So I'll have to check out the selection.)
Onj đļ
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in reply to Griselda Gimpel • • •Audio and Field Recordings
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in reply to adrigen • • •@adrigen I do my best đ
Thank you.
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in reply to Onj đļ • • •It was "messageme" and you put (me) with the space after messageme lol.
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in reply to Onj đļ • • •Thank you. I may never use your work as I don't make videos etc, but this was a very generous thing to do. Bookmarked, because you never know......
Thank you, again.
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in reply to NormanDunbar • • •Cecelia
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Cool, cool. I notice the linked license doesnât mention Mastodon (like the page does), FYI.
Appreciate your work on this. đ
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in reply to Onj đļ • • •Julia Clement
in reply to Onj đļ • • •If so, doing this can create problems as you may not end up with the protections you wished to have.
As they have been honed over many years, the Creative Commons licenses are often a good choice and provide real protection.
Your license looks to be most similar to CC BY-NC-SA which allows free use, modification and sharing but not commercial use.
Onj đļ
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in reply to Julia Clement • • •Slash909uk
in reply to Onj đļ • • •wow, that is so generous! Thank you!
I do some DJing for my kids primary school discos; now I am rummaging for some fun stings to throw in my mix đđĒŠđē
Onj đļ
in reply to Slash909uk • • •Thanks so much.
Tiziano
in reply to Onj đļ • • •Maybe it would be worth mentioning that one cannot use these in any commercial project. (Note: this is not polemical, I'm quite happy with that, but I know from experience that if you write "for any kind of project imaginable", many won't even bother reading the full licence...)
Onj đļ
in reply to Tiziano • • •People can use them commercially but if they do, I'd hope they're honest enough to pay me a little something for that. I do provide.wav and.flac on request if they do so, because paying for mp3 just isn't my idea of fun.
Tiziano
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