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// Sounds & Assets — a curated, always-live directory of FREE music + TikTok
// creative assets for making DW social content. Static link catalog (no scraping,
// no keys) served to the panel; edit the CATALOG below to add/curate sources.
//
// Brand-safety is the whole point of the two buckets:
// brandsafe → cleared/royalty-free to put UNDER a published DW post
// listen → free to enjoy / inspiration only — NOT licensed for brand use
// DW's socials are BUSINESS accounts, so a Grateful Dead live tape (free to hear)
// still can't legally back a DW TikTok — only the platform's Commercial Music
// Library or true royalty-free libraries can.
const CATALOG = [
{
id: 'tiktok',
title: 'TikTok assets',
blurb: 'Trends, sounds, and the business-safe music library — start here when making a DW TikTok.',
items: [
{ name: '🔥 Trending sounds (live)', url: 'https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/inspiration/popular/music/pc/en', badge: 'tiktok', note: 'The real-time trending-sounds board — updates continuously. Filter by region + last 7/30 days. Check this before every DW TikTok to ride a rising sound.' },
{ name: 'TikTok Creative Center', url: 'https://ads.tiktok.com/business/creativecenter/inspiration/popular/hashtag/pc/en', badge: 'tiktok', note: 'Top sounds, trending hashtags, trending videos by region/industry. Free, no ad account needed.' },
{ name: 'TikTok Commercial Music Library (CML)', url: 'https://commercial-music.tiktok.com/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'The ONLY music cleared for business accounts on TikTok. Browse + preview; pick from here for DW posts.' },
{ name: 'TikTok for Business — Creative Hub', url: 'https://www.tiktok.com/business/en/creative-center', badge: 'tiktok', note: 'Ad specs, creative best-practices, templates.' },
{ name: 'CapCut (free editor + templates)', url: 'https://www.capcut.com/templates', badge: 'tiktok', note: 'TikTok-native editor; trend templates you drop DW photos/clips into.' },
],
},
{
id: 'brandsafe',
title: 'Brand-safe music libraries',
blurb: 'Royalty-free / cleared for commercial social — safe to put behind a published DW post.',
items: [
{ name: 'YouTube Audio Library', url: 'https://studio.youtube.com', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free tracks + SFX, most usable commercially (check the per-track license). In Studio → Audio Library. Login required.' },
{ name: 'Meta Sound Collection', url: 'https://business.facebook.com/creatorstudio/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free music/SFX cleared for Facebook + Instagram (incl. Reels). In Creator Studio → Sound Collection.' },
{ name: 'Pixabay Music', url: 'https://pixabay.com/music/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Big, clean catalog.' },
{ name: 'Uppbeat', url: 'https://uppbeat.io/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free tier with a per-track credit code; built for creators/social.' },
{ name: 'Chosic — Free Music', url: 'https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/', badge: 'cc', note: 'Aggregates CC + royalty-free tracks with clear per-track license labels.' },
{ name: 'Bensound', url: 'https://www.bensound.com/', badge: 'cc', note: 'Free with attribution (or license to drop it). Reliable background beds.' },
{ name: 'Incompetech (Kevin MacLeod)', url: 'https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html', badge: 'cc', note: 'Huge royalty-free library, CC-BY (credit Kevin MacLeod).' },
{ name: 'Free Music Archive', url: 'https://freemusicarchive.org/', badge: 'cc', note: 'CC-licensed — filter to commercial-OK licenses before using on a DW post.' },
{ name: 'Mixkit — Free Stock Music', url: 'https://mixkit.co/free-stock-music/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free for commercial use, NO attribution required. Also has free SFX + video templates.' },
{ name: 'Purple Planet', url: 'https://www.purple-planet.com/', badge: 'cc', note: 'Free with credit (or small license to drop it). Cinematic + ambient beds that suit luxury interiors.' },
{ name: 'Audionautix (Jason Shaw)', url: 'https://audionautix.com/', badge: 'cc', note: 'All tracks CC-BY — free commercial use with credit. Filter by genre/mood/tempo.' },
{ name: 'ccMixter', url: 'https://ccmixter.org/', badge: 'cc', note: 'Remix-friendly CC catalog — check each track for a commercial-OK license.' },
{ name: 'Pixabay Sound Effects', url: 'https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/', badge: 'brandsafe', note: 'Free-for-commercial SFX (whooshes, transitions, ASMR-style texture sounds for unboxing/roll reveals).' },
{ name: 'BBC Sound Effects Archive', url: 'https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/', badge: 'cc', note: '33k+ SFX under the RemArc license — free for personal, educational + some commercial use (read the license).' },
],
},
{
id: 'listen',
title: 'Grateful Dead & live archives',
blurb: '🎧 Free to LISTEN — studio session fuel + inspiration. Not licensed to publish under a brand post.',
items: [
{ name: 'Grateful Dead — Internet Archive', url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead', badge: 'listen', note: 'Thousands of full concerts the band let fans tape + share. Free to stream.' },
{ name: 'Relisten (web + free app)', url: 'https://relisten.net/', badge: 'listen', note: 'Gapless player over the Archive.org Dead + jam-band tapes. Best listening experience.' },
{ name: 'Live Music Archive (etree)', url: 'https://archive.org/details/etree', badge: 'listen', note: 'The broader taper-friendly collection — bands that allow free live sharing.' },
{ name: 'SomaFM', url: 'https://somafm.com/', badge: 'listen', note: 'Free, ad-free curated internet radio (Groove Salad, Deep Space One) — great studio background.' },
{ name: 'Musopen (public domain classical)', url: 'https://musopen.org/', badge: 'listen', note: 'Public-domain classical recordings — fully free to use, no license worries.' },
],
},
{
id: 'deaderas',
title: 'Grateful Dead — essential eras',
blurb: '🎧 The legendary runs, deep-linked into the Archive. Listen/inspo only — searches within the free collection.',
items: [
{ name: "Cornell '77 — 5/8/1977 (Barton Hall)", url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1977-05-08', badge: 'listen', note: 'The most famous show ever — now in the Library of Congress. The peak-of-peaks reference.' },
{ name: "Spring 1977 — the golden run", url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1977', badge: 'listen', note: 'Widely considered their finest tour; tight, powerful, beautifully recorded.' },
{ name: "Europe '72", url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1972', badge: 'listen', note: 'The Pigpen-era European tour — loose, jammy, joyous. Basis of the famous live box set.' },
{ name: '1969 — primal / Live/Dead era', url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1969', badge: 'listen', note: 'Raw, psychedelic, exploratory. The "Dark Star" deep-space years.' },
{ name: '1974 — Wall of Sound', url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1974', badge: 'listen', note: 'The legendary hi-fi PA era — pristine, hugely dynamic sound.' },
{ name: '1989–1990 — Brent-era late peak', url: 'https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=1990', badge: 'listen', note: 'The last great run with Brent Mydland — polished, powerful, well-circulated soundboards.' },
],
},
];
module.exports = {
id: 'sounds',
title: 'Sounds & Assets',
icon: '🎵',
mount(router) {
router.get('/catalog', (_req, res) => res.json({
catalog: CATALOG,
badges: {
brandsafe: { label: '✅ Brand-safe', desc: 'Cleared / royalty-free for commercial social — OK to publish under a DW post.' },
cc: { label: '© CC / attribution', desc: 'Creative Commons — usually OK commercially WITH credit; check the per-track license.' },
listen: { label: '🎧 Listen / inspo', desc: 'Free to hear, NOT licensed for brand posts. Studio fuel + inspiration only.' },
tiktok: { label: '▶ TikTok', desc: 'TikTok-native creative resource.' },
},
}));
},
};