How to Add Your Own Music/Sound to TikTok Videos in 2024

Want to create a TikTok video with your own audio track? Watch this video to learn how to add your own sound or music to your TikTok videos, and how to add a custom name to your original TikTok sound after posting.

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Before we begin, please note that you cannot use this method to add copyrighted music to a TikTok video. If you upload a video to TikTok with copyrighted music, your video will either be muted, or taken down. This tutorial will show 2 ways to add your own original sound to a TikTok, but we do not suggest using this for any copyrighted audio. We’re demonstrating with royalty free music from YouTube’s audio library.

Let’s get into the 2 ways you can add custom audio to a TikTok. The easiest way is to play the sound or music out loud while you’re recording your TikTok video. Start playing the track you’d like to use out loud, then begin recording your video. Don’t add any sounds from TikTok’s library and you’ll be able to keep the original sound recorded with your video. This is a very simple method, but might not give you the best sound quality.

The other option is to use a video editing app to add music. This takes a few extra steps, but will give you much better sound quality than playing it out loud. A great free editing app option is CapCut Video Editor. It’s available on both iPhone and Android devices. Check out our beginner's guide to CapCut video to learn the basics of editing on this app. To add a custom audio track to your video, you’ll need to have the audio file saved to your device already. Then, open the CapCut project you want to add your audio file to. Then tap Audio. Tap Sounds. Then tap the Folder icon. Select From Device. Now tap the plus sign beside the track you want to add to your video. After that your audio track will be added to your video project and you can continue editing and exporting your video as normal.

To add a custom label to your original TikTok sound after posting, open your published TikTok video with the custom audio track you want to label. Now tap the audio icon in the bottom right corner. Tap the pencil icon next to the original audio label. Now, you can rename your audio to whatever you like. If this is your own song, you can put the song name and your name as the artist. Or if it’s a track of you speaking, you could label it with the topic or the most relevant thing you said. Once you’re done changing the audio title, tap Save in the top right corner. After that if other people use your sound on TikTok, the sound will be labeled as whatever you have titled it.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Method 1 - Play out loud
1:21 Method 2 - Use a video editing app
2:25 How to customize name of original sound on TikTok
3:06 Wrap-up

[obanks]

how i can use music that i want for slideshow pictures 😢?

[karenhetv]

Thank you for the step-by-step video! It worked! I was trying to figure out myself and you saved me!

[The_Luna_and_Nala_Show]

Thank you! We used your video to add sound to our latest video on capcut 😻

[francismartial]

Thank you Jessica, this helped alot🙏🏼

[Sleepee_Goblin]

For some reason it doesn't let me customize the audio? I uploaded it from my phone as MP4, any tips appreciated!

[ink]

Will the sound be deleted if you delete the audio video?

[joshmarks]

hey Jessica, i found a tiktok video that uses a soundtrack i want to use for a video i'm making. But when I click on the audio track they've used and put it in my video, it only lets me choose the last 40 seconds of the track. The first video I watched had earlier sections of the music. How come it won't let me choose earlier parts ?

[simvictor]

hi, Jessica, i have my own soundtrack audio, i want to create a TikTok video with moving numble /image when the video is playing how??

[psymon_]

I want to make a TikTok but i want to have it as a photo slideshow. Is there anyway I can add a sound still?

[cassius]

So basically we don’t earn from our sounds? Can you please enlighten me on this subject ?

[SueyK]

But how are people having TikTok videos with songs from Eminem, Nicky Minaj etc

[ReinaColemanFansROCK]

GO, TECHBOOMERS! 😄💪📱📹⭐❤

❤ Reina Coleman. (Buckeye, Arizona, USA. 🌵☀🇺🇸)

[cesarveralatorre]

I want to upload a videoclip of my own song and Tik Tok mutes it. If I try to use my song from the sound library, TikTok will only let me 1 minute of it, so it is useless. What can I do?

[segundacuenta]

Hi. If I want to make a video of myself playing an instrument (my own music) can i upload that like if it were to youtube or somewhere else? I mean the video file that has the audio already. And how long can it be? Thanks

[brandonphillips]

Didn't work when I tried the second option

[jillcritchett]

🎉how do I find things to buy on tik tok