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🎵 Need sound effects or background music? Turn to Westar Music & Sound Effects! 🎵

Creating any kind of video or audio work? Need some funky music in the background or a very specific kind of door creaking sound? Westar Music & Sound Effects is for you!

Westar Music provides download access to:

  • Over 10,000 bgm tracks
  • Over 450,000 sound effects

Filter for background tracks by genre, tempo, or length. Genres range from 鈥渁mbient鈥 to 鈥淓DM鈥 to 鈥淪cifi/Horror鈥.

Search for sound effects by keyword or browse by category, which covers every need you can imagine! Choices range from 鈥渃oncussive wave鈥 to 1040 clock sounds to 446 鈥淟iquid and Mud鈥 sounds for your very own orc birth scenes.

Just make sure you are only using these tracks for coursework only and not commercial purposes! (That's what the library licence covers.)

Accessing Westar Music & Sound Effects

  • Get to Westar from
  • Once in Westar platform, click on the 鈥淪ound effects鈥 tab in the horizontal navigation bar to access the catalogue of sound effects