Pros: Lots of royalty free music downloads in different genres, no need to sign up to download tracks. Go to site: Bensound. This means that you can legally download free DJ music from here, but with varying degrees of usage designated by the producers. Creative Commons, then, is a different licence compared to music that is absolutely royalty free. The first thing to do would be to pick your genre of choice at the top of the CCTrax homepage.
This lets you visit the page for that style, and you can see the releases that are available to download along with their associated ratings. You can also click on the tags in each release to find more music similar to it: this is useful because while there are only seven main genre categories, there are dozens of sub-genres that you can click through in the tags section of a release.
Pros: Catalogue focused on electronic dance music genres, free downloads without giving away an e-mail address or signing up for an account. Go to site: CCTrax. The Creative Commons licence is a kind of copyright that lets creators keep their rights to and ownership of the work, while at the same time allowing others to copy, distribute, and use that work for free. When applying for a Creative Commons licence, the music producer chooses whether or not the song can be used commercially, and whether or not the song can be used in a derivative manner eg a remix, or as a sample.
So while a song bearing the Creative Commons licence can be downloaded for free, you may or may not use it for commercial applications such as a mixtape that you sell or a song that you produce and upload to streaming and online stores. Creative Commons means that the creator of the music still retains ownership of it, and so there are limitations attached to how the music is used or manipulated.
A royalty free licence means that you can use the music without having to pay a royalty or licence fee each time you use it, and you can make derivative works of it and use in commercial settings too. Facebook Pages are also great places to hunt for new exclusives that DJs drop as part of their Facebook Live DJ sets — though they rarely give them away for free, sometimes they drop a link as part of the livestream. Almost all DJs have a Facebook Page, which makes looking for them easy.
Go to site: Facebook. One of the newer sites on this list, Jamendo is a platform that lets you legally download free DJ music from independent artists, and it also gives the artists an opportunity to upload their music for music placement consideration in TV, film, and online content by music supervisors. A great place to start on Jamendo is by going to the Explore section in the home page.
All songs are free to download for personal use and come with a Creative Commons licence, which means you can spin with it during your DJ sets more on Creative Commons above. Another good starting point is the Selections area in the home page.
Pros: Easy search option lets you go through its large collection, music downloads are free without the need for signing up. Go to site: Jamendo. Budding beatsmiths and professionals upload their music here looking to sell or license them to MCs and vocalists looking for instrumentals to rap or sing over. The name of that rapper is Lil Nas X and the beat turned out to be Old Town Road, which became the defining chart single of The best part is that while the beats here are cheap, there are also lots of free downloads to be had.
This brings up a big list of all the tracks you can grab for free in exchange for an email address or a follow on BeatStars it has a social feature similar to SoundCloud. Another way to go about it is to just click on a playlist you like: the BeatStars interface feels like browsing through Spotify smart! All you need to do is to click it and enter an email or follow the beatmaker on BeatStars to grab the instrumental.
Pros: Hot site now for hip-hop beats and instrumentals, thriving marketplace and community. Cons: Hip-hop and bass music-focused selection may leave those looking for house, techno and EDM out in the cold. Go to site: BeatStars. One of the longest running sites on this list is ReverbNation.
A good place to spend time digging through, if only for the nostalgia of the platform. ReverbNation has a team that curates music on a regular basis, and these tunes show up in playlists on the site. You can go through the songs in the playlist and see which ones have a free download option by looking at the ReverbNation music player at the bottom of your screen. Go to site: ReverbNation. Originally launched back in as a place for bands to release music online, SoundClick has since pivoted to being a platform for streaming and selling electronic beats.
The cool thing is that for the tunes that are free, you can get them without having to create an account or signing in. Pros: Free music downloads once you sign up. One of the oldest music sites around with a large library of different types of music. Go to site: SoundClick. These come from sites that allow you to copy and paste a YouTube link in order to extract the audio as an MP3 file.
These sites even let you rip the video too! You cannot legally download free DJ music from YouTube. The reason for this is because whenever a video file is uploaded to YouTube, that file is compressed and transcoded.
It was huge in the s because of its then-revolutionary song discovery and user-generated chart making features. However, this storefront is not for mass consumers. Traxsource, as an online music store, caters to DJs. Their focus is on making an online store fit for the needs of a DJ. You can listen to the tracks before you decide to buy the tracks. They provide high-quality audio files convenient for any DJ. They have their focus more on house music but their collection focuses on other genres too.
You can find a lot of tracks and their remixes on this platform. They have apps and software for every platform which are easy to use. You can easily directly download any tracks you decide to purchase. Their website makes it very easy for a DJ to navigate. They have sections featuring the top choices from DJs. They also offer a lot of resources handy for DJs. Their curated lists make it very easy for you to discover new music.
Youtube offers a premium music service which makes their music ad-free to watch. Maybe not the place to download your songs but certainly to stream a ton of songs. YouTube has always been the go-to source for a lot of people to listen to music. Due to the nature of how anyone could upload videos, a lot of artists have uploaded their music on here too.
And recently YouTube has launched its premium subscription service YouTube music. Which makes music the focus and improves your music experience a lot. Although you can not get any files, they offer an amazing streaming service. Almost all of us are very at home on YouTube. YouTube can help you find great stuff. From big-time hits to cover versions to remixes, you can find anything you want on YouTube in some form or other.
YouTube also has a ton of community content, a lot of these are music. With a YouTube music subscription, you have the option to play any video as a music track. This allows you to discover so much more to listen to. There are a lot of remixes, mashups, covers, and variant versions of songs you can only find on YouTube. Although YouTube might not offer the most convenient options when it comes to DJing.
It still is a great place for all sorts of music and is something you should have in your arsenal. They have an amazing subscription model and a ton of music for you to select from. They offer tremendously high-quality mp3 files for DJs exclusively. You can easily directly download a ton of tracks. Their download interface is a bit old school. It feels similar to a file browser of some FTP site. But what they lack in the visual aesthetics department they make up for with their astonishing quality and an amazing library.
They offer a ton of variety and you can find a lot of remixes and variant versions of hit songs. Their fast and reliable delivery method makes them an amazing choice for any DJ looking for a quality music pool service. Their low commitment subscription service makes them almost a no brainer. Although Apple has recently introduced Apple Music, its monthly subscription-based music streaming service, iTunes is still a fantastic storefront.
You can buy just one song or a whole album or EP. Whether you buy just one track or all of them, they are yours to keep. They offer amazing quality music files and you can take your iTunes library anywhere and use it on virtually any device. A lot of DJs prefer owning their music rather than streaming.
This provides both quality and consistency. And no other place fulfills this wish as iTunes does. No other online store can offer you such a vast collection for you to buy music from. You can rest assured that the music you bought you will continue to have access to for the foreseeable future.
Their quality is unquestionably good. Everything a DJ could hope for from a music source. Bandcamp is a service dedicated to music discovery and supporting artists.
This platform focuses on helping artists grow. You can discover a lot of great music here. Artists can choose their prices. A lot of artists offer their music entirely for free while you can choose to pay to support them. You can download by just giving your email address and zip code to the ones that the artists have made available. Some artists choose to offer both free streaming and downloading, while some artists offer free streaming but require payment for download.
A lot of tracks however you need to pay for access at all. This is still an amazing free music platform as their collection of free music is extensive. And whatever you choose to pay is helping the artist grow. A lot of artists have seen growth through Bandcamp. Hip hop, pop-rock, EDM, acoustic, whatever the genre might be, you are bound to find talented artists on Bandcamp.
This is an amazing platform for DJs to find new music for their sets. It might seem weird seeing the social media platform here on this list. But, indeed, you can find a lot of free music on Facebook. A lot of artists upload some of their songs on Facebook for advertisement or other purposes. A lot of and coming hip hop and EDM artists upload their tracks regularly on Facebook. You can also find some amazing cover artists. Facebook being a social media platform, a lot of people tend to cover a lot of songs to post here.
You should not be looking down on a social media site. The best part is, you probably already have a Facebook account and maybe you use it regularly too. You just need to keep your eyes open and with a little bit of effort, you can discover music for you to use as a DJ. Jamendo was the first site to offer legal free streaming to the mass consumer. They have over half a million tracks from all over the globe. Their streaming services are amazing. They also have a licensing service for using music elsewhere if you would need that.
Their business model is entirely free if you want it to be. On the other side, you can support your favorite artists if you choose to do that. Their website is filled with free music for you to listen to or download. There are even tracks that are available for you to use in videos, you just need to credit them. Jamendo focuses on sharing music usable on any device. Which means their downloading features are amazing. Being able to download high-quality music is always a big plus when you are looking for music to use in your DJing sessions.
All of the tracks are available for high-quality downloads. Their radio and curated playlists are an amazing way to discover music. Their library includes music from over countries, so there is a ton of variety. So you do not have to worry about the lack of variety. It is by far one of the greatest free music services. Noisetrade is a platform for direct to fan giveaways. It is used by artists to offer a lot of their work for free to their fans.
You will need to sign up with your email and zip code to get the tracks. This is used by the artists to grow their fanbase. A lot of artists give away free stuff on the noise trade to grow their fan following or increase the number of attendees at their concerts. As a DJ this can be an amazing resource to you. Many artists have provided some of their most popular tracks on this website. There are often different versions too. Noisetrade is currently featured by Paste magazine. It is a very useful platform for anyone looking for more music to add to their library.
They even offer a bunch of free ebooks and other written media which makes them even better. Both free and premium service, it has a lot of music with its focus on instrumentals, hip-hop, electronic, and rock. There are tons of free music that you can download straight away without needing to create an account. But there are also plenty of options for premium songs.
The design of Soundclick makes finding music very easy. A ton of artists distribute their music through Soundclick. It is a service that prioritizes being friendly towards artists, so you know whatever you do here is supporting the artist directly. Their design also makes it very easy to find new music.
Their website puts user-created curated playlists front and center so you can discover some amazing playlists like this. And they have a very robust collection in every genre which makes sure that no matter what you are looking for you can find good music. Prices are mostly set by the artists themselves, so a lot of the songs are free.
While some songs require payment. Both their premium and free collection is very extensive, so you do not need to worry about the costs being too high. Soundcloud is a very popular place where DJs upload their music and their sets. There are many sites that aggregate and list torrents for you to search, since torrent files by themselves aren't illegal. When you get torrent results, check for user comments or star ratings.
Go with the files that have positive comments and ratings — others may be misleading or dangerous. Download the torrent file. This file should be very tiny — only a couple dozen Kb or so at most. This is because the torrent itself is just a set of instructions telling your program what to do. The torrent should open automatically once it has downloaded, otherwise you can open it through your torrent client. Wait for your file to download. Torrents can take anywhere from a few minutes to the better part of a day to download.
Consider leaving the torrent up. Once you've downloaded your music, you can unpack the files and listen to them at your leisure. At this point, it's considered good etiquette to leave it in your list so that others can download parts of it from you, but you don't have to.
Some private torrenting communities actually require that you maintain a certain ratio of downloading-to-seeding in order to remain a part of the site.
Method 8. Find a community that shares music. Most larger community-created websites such as Reddit have one or more dedicated music communities.
Lurk observe quietly and learn the community etiquette before you post. Sharing music through a forum is no more legal than sharing through torrents. The appeal of using a forum is that they are much less likely to be taken down or pursued by authorities due to the members-only nature of forums. Depending on the site you visit, these may happen rarely, or multiple times daily. Once you find one, enter it.
Pick an album. You'll see people posting albums with hyperlinks to sites like Mega, Zippyshare, and Mediafire. Those links lead to direct downloads of the albums in question. Copy the link and paste it into a new tab. When prompted, click to download the file. Scan for viruses. Once the file finishes downloading, scan it for viruses with your antivirus software, just in case.
This is usually an option in your right-click menu when you click on the file. Open the file. Once everything seems fine, open the file and extract the music files inside. You won't be expected to share it with anyone as you would with a torrent.
Provide something in return. Once you're comfortable with your community, it is fine to ask for music in case other users have it.
However, you're likely to get a much better response if you offer to upload an album of your own first. Method 9. Download music over a file sharing network. File sharing is the act of trading files directly with other users. Soulseek is by far the safest and most reliable file sharing client available for free. It also provides access to one of the widest selections of music anywhere on the Internet.
As with all file sharing programs, be careful downloading files from unknown sources. Programs such as soulseek do not scan for viruses or prevent users from sharing malicious files.
It is up to the user to download safely. Sharing music through a file-sharing program is illegal if you do not own a copy of the music you are downloading. Providing music for others to download also increases potential charges against you. These programs are typically safe because they are community patrolled, but be aware that there is a legal risk in sharing music you do not own.
Download the Soulseek software. Just click the topmost link under the heading for your operating system Windows, Mac, or Linux. Install the software. Double-click on the file you downloaded to run it and install the program. Run Soulseek.
You'll be asked to create a username for yourself; this doesn't really matter, so pick any name you want. Set a folder of music to share with other users. Most Soulseek users won't let you download from their libraries unless you share some of your own. You don't necessarily have to share your entire library, although it's considered polite to do so. Click the Options tab. Click the File Sharing tab on the Options page.
Click the Share Folder button at the very top of the window. Find and download music. Click the Search tab and enter your search into the text field.
Hit enter to see results. Check the bitrate on the right side of the results and the file format MP3, M4A, and FLAC files can all be found on Soulseek , and if you like what you see, double click to download the file s. You can sort the list by Transfer Speed to download from users with a fast connection. To download an entire album at once, double-click the directory above the track listing. You'll download everything in that directory that is, everything you see in the album folder.
Search results update continuously for as long as you leave them open. Each new search you make opens up a new tab under the search bar. You can close these when you're done with them. Track your progress. Click the Transfers tab to see two more tabs, Uploads and Downloads. Downloads shows you what you're currently downloading or waiting in line to download. Uploads shows what files, if any, other users are downloading from your computer.
Light blue text means you're still waiting to download that file. If your entire album list stays light blue for too long, try right-clicking and choosing Retry Download to kick-start it. Most users have a set number of downloads they allow at a time. This means that there is often a line to get the file you want. Dark blue text indicates the file is currently being downloaded. You'll see a progress bar on the right, as well as a bitrate indicator for the transfer. Higher numbers mean faster downloads.
Green text means the file was successfully downloaded. There will also be a full progress bar next to the file name. Red text means your download was canceled or aborted. This can happen for many different reasons. Wait until the rest of the songs have finished downloading, and then retry any red downloads before searching for them elsewhere.
You can right-click the file and select Retry. Add your files to your library.
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