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The biggest value an aggregator can provide here is curation. The amount of free resources are so vast there's no way you would be able to find the perfect PNG or SVG — and sometimes it's badly traced from raster. I've been using https://thenounproject.com whenever I'm looking for symbols. They also have collections when you want to maintain consistency in a project.

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Amen. There's much free stuff, but sifting though it is unfathomably tedious to me.

It's all the same if you search for royalty-free music. I know I shouldn't complain, but most artists sharing free stuff "do not get it" when it comes to music for video with only a handful of tracks that are suitable. (Searching for something that is neither distracting from the video nor too boring)

Can somebody recommend an aggregator of royalty-free music that is not:

- from Kevin McLeod (Incompetech)

- from Jason Shaw (Audionautix)

- from ccMixter?

I think it's possible to find singular stuff on SoundCloud, but discovery of royalty-free music is not great on that platform.

This is not the thing you've asked for and it requires a bit of work to extract usable data from it, but I scraped Bandcamp a while ago (2019), along with the licenses of the tracks, genres and fan count, and made it available on Archive.org [0].

In theory, you should be able to parse the files, filter out libre/free music (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA) and even order it by genre and fan count to get some options for music.

There's also the Free Music Archive (FMA) [1], StarFrosch [2] and ccTrax [3] (not to be confused with ccMixter).

[0] https://archive.org/details/thisonetime

[1] https://freemusicarchive.org/

[2] https://starfrosch.com/

[3] https://cctrax.com/

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