What can I share on soundza?
Everything on soundza is free for other people to use in their music. That’s the fun of it. It only works if the sounds are actually yours to share. Here’s a quick guide to what that means.
Did you make it?
When you upload a sound, you’re telling us two things: you made it (or explicitly know you have the rights to distribute it), and you’re happy for other people to use it royalty-free. Some examples of what counts and what doesn’t:
Yours — go for it
- You played it — guitar, keys, drums, bass, whatever you’ve got.
- It’s your voice: singing, humming, talking, beatboxing.
- You pointed a mic at the world: rain, traffic, a creaky door, your dog.
- You built a loop from your own one-shots.
Not yours — leave it out
- Anything from a released song, a movie, a game, an ad, or a YouTube video.
- Sounds you downloaded from someone else’s free sample pack.
- A recording of another person without asking them first.
- Unmodified factory samples from a digital synth or ROMpler.
What about stuff I downloaded?
Probably not, even if it was free. “Free” almost always means free to use in your own tracks, not free to hand out to other people. A pack you got for signing up to a newsletter, a Discord drop, a loop kit from a producer’s site: none of those come with permission to put them up here.
The exception is a sound that comes with a license that clearly says you can share it, like CC0 or public domain. If you can find that in writing, great. If you can’t, skip it.
Not sure? Leave it out
We’re not copyright lawyers, so this isn’t legal advice, just the way we think about it. If you have a specific question or found something on soundza that you think should be removed, email admin@soundza.com and we’ll do our best to help.