How to add free music to youtube video

Add music, songs, audio files, and sound effects to your videos online

Add audio files to any video

Whether you want to add your favorite song to a video montage or an enticing sound effect to your YouTube intros, Kapwing’s video editor is the best place to add music tracks to video online. Attach any audio file or paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, SoundCloud, and more. Edit your volume and timing, trim your video and audio layers, detach your video’s original audio, and arrange several clips together on the timeline.

How to Add Music to a Video Online

1. Upload your video or GIF

   Upload a video or GIF that you want to add music to. You can also paste a link from Youtube, Twitter, etc.

2. Add your audio

   Add your own audio, or use one from our royalty-free library. You can drag and drop to set the start time of your audio.

3. Download and share

   Just hit Export, and your final video will be produced. Download your video, create a URL link for it, or share it across multiple social media platforms directly from Kapwing.

Combining Music and Video Online

Using Kapwing, you can add as many audio and video layers as you want! You can use sound effects, voiceovers, music layers, TikTok songs, and visual effects like text, subtitles, lyrics, filters, fancam effects, and much more.

Kapwing enables creators to trim their audio (to focus on the chorus or one soundbite, for example) and specify when in a video the music should start playing. You can import directly from YouTube or upload from a computer or phone.

Discover even more features on Kapwing

Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add audio to a video for free?

To add audio to video for free, you'll need software that combines separate MP3 and MP4 containers into one joined video file. A reliable option to complete this task is Kapwing. You can upload, then stitch audio files such as voiceovers, sound effects, and background music to videos on the timeline editor. The built-in tools also allow creators to extract audio from a video, record a voiceover, and find royalty-free sound effects to add to videos.

How do I add audio to a video on mobile?

Adding audio to video on mobile involves combining audio file formats to multimedia containers with an online tool. The best tool supports multiple file formats and quickly imports media while providing a seamless editing experience on mobile. Kapwing’s intuitive user interface allows creators to add audio to video on mobile with a few clicks. Each file is automatically added to the timeline editor for creators to append audio to a video.

How can I add background music to a video online?

To add background music to videos online, you’ll need to join low-volume audio files to videos with an online video editing tool. This process reinforces the mood for improved storytelling, and when done well, results in a magical viewing experience. Kapwing is a dependable online editor you can use to append background music to a video. Explore royalty-free music to find additional audio and adjust the volume to achieve the desired output level.

How do I combine audio and video from different sources?

To combine audio and video from different sources, you’ll need a software tool that supports multiple file formats and direct uploads from online destinations. Upon pasting a video or audio link and importing media from a device, creators can stitch audio and video together. In addition to uploading media from a device, Kapwing allows creators to paste a link from YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, then join files together.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

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