Audio assets

You can find a wide variety of free‑to‑use audio assets in the Creator Store, or you can import audio assets that you're certain you have permission to use, such as audio that you make yourself. The asset privacy system automatically ensures that the IDs of your imported audio can't be accessed by users without proper permissions.

Find audio

The Creator Store tab of the Toolbox contains a wide variety of free-to-use audio assets made by Roblox and the Roblox community for creators to use within their games, including more than 100,000 professionally-produced sound effects and music tracks from top audio and music partners.

To find audio assets on the Creator Store:

In the Toolbox, navigate to the Creator Store tab, then use the category selector dropdown to select Audio.
Use the keyword search, quick filter options, and/or advanced filters to narrow down the results.
Right-click any audio asset, then select Copy Asset ID to copy the asset ID to your clipboard. You can now paste this asset ID into a AudioPlayer object to play the audio.

Note

If you click any audio asset, Studio inserts it as a new Sound instance into the Explorer window. However, Sound objects don't have the same dynamic functionality as AudioPlayer objects.

Import audio

You can import custom audio through the Asset Manager, Creator Dashboard, and Open Cloud API as long as your audio meets the following requirements:

You have the legal rights to that audio asset.
It adheres to the Community Rules and Terms of Use.
It's a single track/stream in either .mp3, .ogg, .wav or .flac format.
It's less than 20 MB in size and 7 minutes in duration.
Its sample rate is less than or equal to 48 kHz.
Its channels are set to mono or stereo 2.0, 3.0, or 5.1 surround.

If you're ID verified, you can import 2,000 free audio assets per 30 days; if you're unverified, you can import 100 free audio assets per 30 days. If a daily import limit exists, it's removed and replaced with a simplified monthly limit.

Studio assigns each new audio asset a unique asset ID that you can use within your games to play the audio.

Asset Manager

To import audio through the Asset Manager:

Click the Import button.
Select and then confirm the audio files you want to import from your local system.
Once you confirm the imports and the files import successfully, they display with a green checkmark and a completed status.

Note

To standardize the playback format and check for corrupt or invalid files, Studio transcodes imported audio before saving it as an asset. If you receive an error while importing audio, Studio is likely rejecting it during the transcode process. In addition, some older audio tools generate invalid file headers or frames when exporting.

If Studio continues to reject the audio you're trying to import, ensure your audio tools are updated, then verify that the audio files meet the import requirements.

Creator Dashboard

To import audio through the Creator Dashboard:

In the horizontal navigation, select Development Items. All assets you have previously imported display within their respective category.
In the sub-horizontal navigation, select Audio.
Click the Upload Asset button. The Upload Asset page displays.
In the Upload Asset page,
1. Click the Upload button, then select and then confirm the audio file you want to import from your local system.
2. Fill out the Name and Description fields with the audio file's relevant information.
3. At the bottom of the page, click the Upload button.

Your audio assets are now within the moderation queue and are only visible to you within the Audio tab of the Creator Dashboard's Development Items page.

Open Cloud API

To import audio through an HTTP request:

Copy the API key to the x-api-key request header of the Create Asset endpoint.
In your request:
1. Specify that the target asset type is Audio.
2. Add your audio asset's name and description.
3. Add the creator information.
  - If you want to create the audio asset on your own behalf, add your user ID. You can find your user ID on the URL of your Roblox profile. For example, for https://www.roblox.com/users/1234567/profile, your user ID is 1234567.
  - If you want to create the audio asset as a group asset, add the group ID of your group. You can find the group ID on the URL of your group's page. For example, for https://www.roblox.com/groups/7654321/example-group#!/, the group ID is 7654321.
4. Add the file path and content type of your asset.
```
curl --location 'https://apis.roblox.com/assets/v1/assets' \
--header 'x-api-key: ${ApiKey}' \
--form 'request="{
  \"assetType\": \"Audio\",
  \"displayName\": \"Name\",
  \"description\": \"This is a description\",
  \"creationContext\": {
    \"creator\": {
      \"userId\": \"${userId}\" # Use groupId for creating a group asset
    }
  }
}"' \
--form 'fileContent=@"/filepath/audio.mp3";type=audio/mpeg'
```

After the audio assets pass moderation, you can reuse them in any project on the platform. Although you are initially the only one who can view and use private audio assets, the asset privacy system lets you grant usage permissions to specific friends and experiences.

Visibility

When you upload audio to Roblox, it is automatically classified as a sound effect or a song. Sound effects are not eligible to appear on the details page of the game in which they're used, but they can be distributed on the Creator Store. A song can appear on the game details page if:

It passes all moderation and copyright checks.
It meets the minimum duration, playback (number of unique plays), and platform age requirements.
It has a meaningful and appropriate title.
The uploader is ID verified.
The uploader has acknowledged the Roblox Audio Terms of Use.

Note

Eligible songs will become visible on the game details page by default when the above requirements are met. You can toggle this visibility on the asset's Configure page in the Creator Hub. You can also add the Roblox usernames of song composers and collaborators in the Song Artist field; if this field is left blank, you'll be listed as the artist.

Once a song is on the game details page, players can click the song tile to see the song details page. Here, they can view additional information about the track and listen to a 15-second preview.

Song preview page linked from a game's details page