3 Easy Ways to Add an Audio Watermark to Your Music

Just as photographers place a watermark over photos for copyright protection, adding an audio watermark to your songs and audio is a great way to protect your original music from being ripped off by illegal users and download.

In this post, we will walk you through what an audio watermark is and offer you 3 proven ways to watermark your music and audio in minutes. So, let’s dive into it, now!

Here is what you will learn:

What Is An Audio Watermark

An audio watermark is a layer of short audio files merged in the original soundtracks or audio to help your claim ownership of an original song and audio. A typical audio watermark can be your voiceovers like saying “XXX music/audio” or a distinct ambient sound effects of yours, basically working as an audio signature.

An audio watermark beneath the soundtrack

Whether you are a singer, a member of a band, a music producer, a composer, or a podcaster, having an audio watermark attached to your songs and audio can effectively protect your assets from being stolen and help listeners find the music owner through audio works. Record a voiceover as an audio watermark.

When You Need to Use An Audio Watermark

In these two cases, it’s highly advisable to watermark your songs and audio to avoid possible copyright infringement.

How to Add an Audio Watermark to Your Music

To help you easily watermark audio files, we've put together 3 audio watermark generators. So, let's take a closer look.

1. FlexClip

If you plan to publish your demo songs as a video on YouTube, the free and feature-packed FlexClip online video editor can be your go-to choice to add an audio watermark. Since it is an in-browser video editor, there is no software to install and it's also watermark-free.

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You can easily merge multiple audio watermarks into the original soundtracks and set the interval time and use FlexClip's royalty-free and high-res photos as the background for your YouTube video.

Step1: Record An Voiceover Audio Watermark

Find a quiet room and use iPhone's Voice Memo or any voice recording apps to record a voiceover audio watermark like "XXX music/audio".

Step 2: Upload Your Audio Files and Audio Watermark to FlexClip

Upload the original song and audio watermark to FlexClip

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Step3: Set the Storyboard’s Duration and Add Your Audio File

For example, if your original music is one minute, then you set the duration of the storyboard to one minute accordingly. Next, add your audio files. Or use fit to screen tool to adjust the display on the timeline.

Set the storyboard’s duration and add the audio file onto the timeline.

Step 4: Watermark Your Audio Files

Move the playhead to decide where you want to add the audio watermark and add the audio watermark to the timeline. You add multiple audio watermarks to different places of an audio file. To make your audio watermarks more listener-friendly, you can tune down their volume and add fade-in/out effects.

Add multiple audio watermarks to the audio file and adjust the details.

Step 5: Add a Photo to Your Video’s Background (Optional)

Go to the Photo tab on the left menu > search and select a royalty-free photo to match your video’s vibe and add it to the timeline. You may customize the photo animation or add animated texts for your video as well.

Add royalty-free photos or animated texts for the video’s background.

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Step 6: Preview Watermarked Audio and Export it as an MP4

Done with the editing. You can download your audio files as an MP4 to your local computer. Or you may directly share it to your YouTube channel or save it to Dropbox. You may also share it with your friends for feedback via a clickable link or use its embed code for your blogging.

Multiple ways to share your videos.

2. AG Watermark Generator

If you need to quickly watermark multiple songs and post them as a preview on SoundCloud, the AG Watermark Generator is exactly what you need. AG Watermark Generator is an easy-to-use and professional audio watermark maker for composers and singers, etc.

You can add an audio watermark to multiple songs at once and easily select the timing and repetition interval for an audio watermark. The maximum audio watermark is 4 secs. You can output the song with audio watermarks in MP3, WMA, or AIFF.

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AG Watermark Generator currently offers one-time payments for different users, ranging from $39.9 (single user) to $89.9 (multiple users).

3. Audacity

Audacity is a popular and open-source audio editing software for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. Many podcasters love using it to edit audio for podcasting. You can use its recording feature to directly record a voiceover audio watermark and then import your song to merge with the audio watermark.

Use audacity to add audio watermark to songs

Or you may use Audacity's "Generate" feature to produce some ambient sound like "Click " or "Chirp" to add an audio watermark. The following YouTube video will show you how to add "Click Track" as an audio watermark to your original podcast audio.

Add “Click Track” as audio watermarks by Audacity

Now, It’s Your Move

Adding a layer of audio watermark underneath your original songs is a great way to prevent your original songs, podcast, or any audio content from being stolen by unauthorized users. For singers, composers, bands, or podcasters, it's worth doing so. Hopefully, you will find our recommended audio watermark generators helpful.

If you aim to create to song demo and post it on YouTube, FlexClip can be the best choice. While for only adding audio watermarks to your songs, the AG audio watermark generator and Audacity work the best. So, start watermarking your songs with FlexClip, now!

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Passionate about photography, video-making and travel, Frank is a seasoned copywriter and a beloved father of 2-year-old daughter at FlexClip. He is always keen to share his latest discovery about video marketing and tricks to relive your memories through videos and images.