Uncommon Ear

Free music and sound effects for your video, game, or podcast.

Thousands of tracks from 9 sources, each with its license and terms. Search, listen, then export a clip or a loop at the loudness your platform expects.

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Each track shows its license, its source and whether we checked it.

Eight to start with

Real tracks from the catalog. Press play to hear up to 30 seconds.

  • Bauchamp Fast electronic and hip-hop. Suggested for titles and montages.

    1:19

  • Monplaisir Slow rock and experimental. Suggested for background.

    5:26

  • Komiku Slow folk and cinematic. Suggested for loop, background.

    3:04

  • TRG Banks Fast cinematic and ambient. Suggested for titles and montages.

    4:00

  • benderhover Fast hip-hop. Suggested for titles and montages.

    1:10

  • klavo1985 Fast chiptune and cinematic. Suggested for background, retro game.

    5:23

  • Kenney UI.

    1.2 s

  • Kenney Impact and foley.

    0.2 s

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Three ways to use it

Video

Find a bed for a title sequence or a montage, trim it to the cut, and export at -14 LUFS, the level most video platforms normalize to.

  • TRG Banks Mid-tempo cinematic and ambient. Suggested for background.

    4:22

Export: a clip with fades, -14 LUFS, WAV or MP3 at 48 kHz.

Podcast

Pick an intro or a stinger, level it to -16 LUFS so it sits with your voice, and keep the credit line in the file's own tags.

  • Komiku Fast folk and cinematic. Suggested for loop.

    2:49

Export: a clip, -16 LUFS, MP3 or WAV at 44.1 kHz.

Games

Loops snap to whole bars, so the seam lands on the beat. Export at -18 LUFS to leave headroom for effects and voice.

  • michorvath Mid-tempo chiptune. Suggested for loop, background, retro game.

    1:30

Export: a loop snapped to bars, -18 LUFS, OGG or WAV.

What CC0 means

CC0 is a public domain dedication: the maker has given up their copyright as far as the law allows, so you can use the sound in any project, paid or not, without asking permission or giving credit. We credit every source anyway, and each track shows where it came from and how its license was checked.

See every source and the basis for its license

Pro

Coming soon

Unlimited collections, one for every project, every episode, every idea. Organize your tracks however you want, with licensing and attribution all in one place.

Unlimited collections
Name a collection, add tracks to it, and keep as many as you need.
One credit block per collection
Every license and credit for a whole collection, ready to paste.
Saved license records
Freeze what each license said, and whether we had checked it, on the day you published.

$6 a month

$49 a year

The audio is never sold. Pro is a software subscription.

Questions

  • Which licenses do the tracks use?

    Every track names its license. Most are CC0, which has no restrictions. A track under another license says so on its license card, with a link to the license text and a plain summary of what you can and must do. You can filter by license, or by what it allows, such as Free for commercial use.

  • Do I have to credit the artist?

    It depends on the track. Each track says whether credit is optional, requested or required. CC0 tracks need no credit, although some creators ask for one. When credit is required, copy the credit line from the track. Every file you export carries it in its tags.

  • Can I use these in a commercial project?

    Yes, with the right tracks. The Free for commercial use filter is on by default and shows only tracks whose license allows it. For those, monetized videos, client work, paid games and sponsored podcasts are fine, and the track tells you if credit is required. A license covers the maker's own rights; it cannot clear rights the maker never had, so we show whether we checked each source's license statement.

  • How do you check the licenses?

    Each track links to where it came from. Verified means we read the license on the creator's or source's own page. Listed means the source states the license and we have not checked it ourselves yet. We never treat a collection's label as proof.

  • What formats can I download?

    The original file, exactly as the source published it, or an export: WAV (16 or 24 bit), MP3 at 320 kbps, OGG, or FLAC when the source is lossless. Exports can be trimmed, looped and leveled to a loudness target.

  • Will I get a Content ID claim?

    You might. Content ID matches audio, not licenses, so a claim can appear on any track, whatever its license. You can dispute it, and the track's source page is your evidence. A saved license record is planned for Pro.

  • Can my AI assistant or my code search the catalog?

    Yes. Create a free account to connect an assistant over MCP or to make an API key. The AI assistant setup and API docs guides walk you through both.