Frequently asked questions

Yes you can. Even if you monetise the video through ads, you can still use them. You must adhere to our License agreement if you do.

Yes, you can edit a sound file to match your needs. For example, you might need to change the pitch, crop or loop one of our sounds to fit your project. You’ll likely be mixing our sound files with others to build layered ambiences, or more complex sounds for your work. This is all fine. However you can not claim that the edited sound file is a new sound and sell it, add it to a library or redistribute it in any way. The original copyright is still retained by us or our contributors and the sound is still licensed ...

Our audio files will download to the download folder on your computer, the same place all your downloads go to from any other website or source, unless you’e specified another folder for downloads to go to. If still can’t find them, the following article should help.

https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001533.htm 

If you need one of our sound effects or royalty free music tracks editing, or a music loop extending to your desired length and are unable to do this yourself, we are happy to help. Just get in touch and let us know which file it is you need us to edit and what you need doing. We will do our best to help!

We add new sound effects daily. In fact, we work around 60 hours a week recording new sounds and adding them to the library seeing an average of between 200 – 500 new sound effects every week.

Yes, we are happy to work on requests for custom sound effects and music. If you can’t find what you need, you can post a request in our ‘requests’ board in our community. Join our free community here.

No, our previews are low quality for evaluation purposes only which helps the previews load faster and puts less strain on our server. All our free sound effects can be downloaded in high quality once logged in to your free account. Gold members also have access to the original uncompressed wav files.

Yes, all our sounds are also available as professional quality wav files (24/96). You can gain access to our wav files and more (listed below) by upgrading.

• Unlimited Downloads
• Access 100% of Our Catalog
• Thousands of Extra Sounds
• Attribution Free Use
• High Quality .wavs Included
• Premium Sound Packs
• Ad Free and More!
• Cancel Anytime

Yes, we’d love you to add us to your IMDB credits if you’ve used our sounds or music in your movie.

Yes we have a great guide to help you make the most of our free sound effects for podcasts. We talk about how to add sounds and music, what equipment you’ll need, how to record sounds yourself and links to great resources.

You’ll find the podcast guide here

We don’t provide really long versions of our sound effects for download. However, we have our own relaxation YouTube channel regularly adding new long relaxation nature soundtracks. You can listen and subscribe here.

We add hundreds of free sound effects to the library every week. We also add loads of extra free sound effects exclusively for our Gold members too as a thank you for donating / upgrading and supporting our website. These exclusive sounds have gold buttons (or with a gold border for logged out/Basic members).

Only Gold members will see these sound results. If you want to access them too, you can by donating and upgrading. Click here for more information.

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