How to Add Music to Your YouTube Video

I want to show you how to add music to your YouTube videos.

I’ll cover four commonly asked questions related to this process.

First, I’ll show you how to add background music to YouTube after uploading a video to YouTube.
You can use the YouTube music library for this.

This has a lot of limitations though.

So I’ll also show you how to add music to your YouTube videos using a free editing app.

And finally, I’ll show you my favorite place for sourcing royalty-free music.
You can download royalty-free music from Envato Elements:

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You can download royalty-free music from Envato Elements:

[szilagyimiklos]

Thanks for the helpful guide on adding music to YouTube videos! As a content creator, I always strive to make my videos more engaging and adding the right music can really help with that. I appreciate the tips on choosing royalty-free music and adjusting the volume so that it doesn't overpower other audio elements in the video. Keep up the good work!

[WrittlesCave]

Thanks dude, just what I was looking for, you got a new subscriber :)

[nemanjakoska]

Music isn't free on this site, it's 16.50 per month.

[WhereNerdyisCool]

You fail to mention you have to pay a monthly fee for the "free" music.

[perkthemortgageadvisor]

This was very useful. I even paused your video, downloaded Davinci, uploaded my video, and then followed along with you! Thanks!!! I've liked and subscribed to you.

[alfnatalie]

Awesome. It works perfectly. Thanks for your video

[uncledrewcancook]

Great tutorial on how to add music to videos that have been uploaded to Youtube. Thanks for sharing this!

[xavienwoodplays]

hey thanks a lot for this dude, I'm a rerally small creator and I hate having water marks in my vids so this really helps. :D

[chphoto]

I dont have the audio section… did they already change the process?

[SPKsMiniWorld]

honestly very useful video and I am going to do same, recently I lost all 3000 hrs and trying to fix it

[progettazione_case_moderne]

Thank you for the video but I'm looking for an ap that directly loads the audio of another YT video quickly and automatically with or without copy problem

[jenmayo]

I do not see any of these options in YouTube or Studio to edit and add music. What am I doing wrong?

[mickeyflanagan]

How would I add music to longer videos? You mentioned just duplicating? Just copy and paste and have the song repeat over and over? Or would it be better to add multiple songs? Just fade them in and out? Thank for any help.

[pxelsismybff]

Can u add the “first thing we need to do” audio?

[andrewhelme]

Hi. How do I add music that I composed myself to a YouTube video? I can't find anything on the web saying you can but also nothing saying you can't!! Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

[mysugarfreelifeissosweet]

Thank you! But does this software do more than CapCut?

[memoirsofadurandoll]

I have a question!!!! I used music from the Inshot app (thinking it must be royalty free-- as a new contect creator) almost 500 views on my first video, and now it's saying there's copyrights on all my 6 videos...several weeks later. I was hoping to one day be able to monetize my videos, but with this copyright issue (though I was given "permission") I understand that it isn't possible to monetize my videos without removing the music. Since it is in the background of my first three videos (aka, while I am speaking) I can't seem to get rid of it fully unless I take it down and re-upload!! (Um yea, doing away with a lot of my progress and countless hours of work to get where I am now) went in (as shown on other youtube videos) and "muted" the copyright song only -- but it only muted out the part where there is no voice audio (at the end basically). The copyright message was removed from the videos but I don't want this to come back to bite me later since the song is still in the background technically. Will this be an issue? The background music is very low, but I think that the system didn't capture it because I was speaking over it for most of the video. Advice?

[bkayartistry]

Hello there, how can I add music on a video with a voice over but when I stop talking on the voice over I want the music to become louder.

[ImTooChunkyPrototype]

can i get the link for the davinci resole? cuz theres many websites so idk which one.