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Tribe of Noise's independent-music archive. Tracks are uploaded under per-file Creative Commons choices. FMA does not give you a site-wide commercial grant. The marketing homepage splits FMA as "Discovery / personal use" versus Tribe of Noise PRO for socials, video, and film. CC-NC tracks are not commercial-game-safe. CC-BY / CC-BY-SA tracks may be, with credit and possible share-alike on the audio derivative. Filter per track like Freesound.
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License Guide (2026-08-24): "Most of the music licences you will find on FMA are Creative Commons licences". Artists pick the CC flavor. "FMA cannot license original work to you for commercial, private, or other use"
That last sentence is aggregator language, not a ban on using a CC-BY file commercially. It means FMA is not the licensor. Open the track
FAQ for Videos confirms video use when the track's CC conditions match. It does not mention games. Interactive sync plus ND (if any remain) is still the usual trap
Royalty-free / all-rights-included is the paid PRO product, not the free archive
FreePD is dead. FMA does not replace it as CC0 music
commercial: varies (set 2026-10-04): the License Guide documents CC BY as usable "even commercially" and BY-NC as non-commercial, and artists choose per track, so this is the per-file case. Still open: no FMA page names games, the FAQ mentions CC0 as a possibility (so attribution_required: true may not hold for every track), and ND tracks may still exist, so the entry stays needs-review
Review: confirm whether CC tracks may be used in games, since no FMA page names games, and whether CC0 or ND tracks remain.
Evidence
Live License Guide (2026-08-24): "FMA cannot license original work to you for commercial, private, or other use"
Same page (2026-08-24): "Most of the music licences you will find on FMA are Creative Commons licences"
Live License Guide (2026-08-24): documents CC BY-NC as non-commercial only
Live marketing homepage (2026-08-24): FMA listed under "Discovery / personal use"
Live License Guide (2026-10-04): "FMA artists can upload their own music and select a specific CC licence themselves."; "FMA cannot license original work to you for commercial, private, or other use."; CC BY "enables users to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon an original work, even commercially, as long as the creator is credited"
Live FAQ (2026-10-04): "On the left side of the track page, you will see the specific Creative Commons license attached to the track."
