As of 13 August 2026, AI can find royalty-free music for your video.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open your video project and note its subject, mood, exact duration, dialogue, intended platform and whether it will be monetised or used to promote anything.
   2. Paste those details into the prompt, including any instruments or styles you want to avoid.
   3. Ask the chatbot for a shortlist and discard any option whose source link or licence wording it cannot provide.
   4. Open each source page yourself and check that the licence covers your platform, territory, editing, attribution and commercial or monetised use.
   5. Download the chosen track only through the source named in its licence, and save the licence page, terms and any required attribution with your project files.
   6. Add the music to the video, include the required attribution in the description or credits, and keep the saved licence evidence with the exported version.

   Prompt

   Help me find music for a video in the UK. Use these details:
   
   Video subject: [describe the video]
   Mood and style: [for example, calm acoustic, upbeat electronic or cinematic]
   Video length: [duration]
   Where it will be published: [for example, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or a private event]
   Audience: [describe the audience]
   Use: [personal, promotional, monetised or other]
   Voiceover or dialogue: [yes or no]
   Preferred instruments or sounds: [details]
   
   Create a shortlist of suitable tracks from reputable music libraries or purpose-built music tools. Give the track title, creator, direct source link, duration, mood, and the licence wording that appears on the source page. Do not call a track royalty-free unless the source explicitly grants the needed rights. For every option, state whether attribution is required, whether editing is allowed, whether use in monetised or branded video is allowed, whether social media use is allowed, and whether the licence has any territory, platform or subscription restriction. Do not invent missing licence details. If you cannot access or verify a source page, say so and mark that option as unverified. Finish by recommending the best fit, subject to me checking and accepting the current licence before downloading or publishing.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.