This is a list I've made myself of all currently soundtracks, audiobooks, drama CDs and sound stuff that you can add for free and legally to your Steam library. You shouldn't even need the base game to add them (read below for a caveat).

I started with this thread about the same subject: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/XCks6/free-music-in-steam-can-add-without-base-game
So thanks to everyone there for their contribution. That thread hasn't been updated in more than one year, so I think it's better to make a new post than to use necromancy.

I used it as a start, getting more than half of this list from there; then removed the things no longer available, used some searches in SteamDB and Steam Store to find more, and since now these products have the nice blue button "add to library" in the store page, I skipped the SteamDB step (but it's in the instructions nonetheless).

The list is not prone to errors. For example, I might have been able to activate one soundtrack because I already had the base game, and it's really a bother to check for those. It's also a bother to check which ones that I already had could be activated by others without the base game, so yes, there might be stuff not there, or stuff there that shouldn't be. All things you need to know are in the text as caveats, instructions and comments, and then the list, currently 266, of the links of all these free products you can add.

Everything is in this PasteLink link. Feel free to share the link anywhere you want. Last update: 23-Oct-2024.
https://pastelink.net/d12v8s82

You can also report stuff (in the way explained in the list) in this thread, I'll try to update the list, but I might not be available or active. Thank you.

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Are you into game soundtracks?

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Yes, I like a lot of them, and there are real great ones
Sometimes, if the game or soundtrack call my attention
Nope, for many games I even mute their music and listen to mine
I prefer potatoes over music

Both the 2nd and 3rd poll choice applies to me. I usually listen to my own music and then add soundtracks i like to my music library to listen when i want. I tried most or all of the free soundtracks on Steam, and only kept a few. Epic Battle Fantasy for example is really good.

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Thanks, but pastebin doesn't have clickable links, so they also can't be parsed by Steam Web Integration and the like.
Could you paste the links in the post or in a comment?
I mostly wonder if there are any soundtracks on the list that are not caught by https://steamdb.info/freepackages/

[edit] I noticed you changed to pastelink, with working links - thank you!

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Here are the appIDs, split every 50:

!addlicense asf a/322420,a/323120,a/323170,a/323180,a/343720,a/386860,a/413720,a/415430,a/419290,a/463490,a/464810,a/468020,a/503110,a/517050,a/523690,a/529190,a/564180,a/578000,a/584790,a/587660,a/633910,a/652720,a/669940,a/723000,a/790010,a/798540,a/860540,a/887430,a/898330,a/898420,a/910931,a/921640,a/927660,a/932840,a/938430,a/941900,a/942100,a/944240,a/947910,a/972360,a/974540,a/992770,a/993590,a/1026140,a/1027920,a/1044710,a/1045880,a/1105750,a/1117610,a/1126650

!addlicense asf a/1141310,a/1165650,a/1210950,a/1216810,a/1225360,a/1232690,a/1237650,a/1241580,a/1244060,a/1244070,a/1248070,a/1249650,a/1251180,a/1251590,a/1251660,a/1252180,a/1253560,a/1256200,a/1257730,a/1266520,a/1279670,a/1284270,a/1284640,a/1284910,a/1285980,a/1286440,a/1286610,a/1289710,a/1291360,a/1294690,a/1295100,a/1295110,a/1303970,a/1304900,a/1308030,a/1308070,a/1310060,a/1311820,a/1313840,a/1318160,a/1327730,a/1330280,a/1332230,a/1336740,a/1344850,a/1350460,a/1353960,a/1354670,a/1360060,a/1365870

!addlicense asf a/1366050,a/1367150,a/1373160,a/1375100,a/1375550,a/1377660,a/1377720,a/1381900,a/1381910,a/1381920,a/1382820,a/1384140,a/1389940,a/1395240,a/1406380,a/1409690,a/1410010,a/1411430,a/1422660,a/1424880,a/1428000,a/1431260,a/1446570,a/1447680,a/1449740,a/1450030,a/1450770,a/1455240,a/1455860,a/1460060,a/1462230,a/1467710,a/1469790,a/1472670,a/1478510,a/1501860,a/1506670,a/1506700,a/1507460,a/1524480,a/1527850,a/1529820,a/1529980,a/1532220,a/1533930,a/1536810,a/1539440,a/1543230,a/1549790,a/1557570,a/1557970

!addlicense asf a/1559030,a/1566320,a/1573650,a/1574430,a/1583250,a/1609920,a/1610400,a/1611080,a/1612740,a/1619880,a/1632700,a/1638640,a/1640280,a/1640420,a/1643140,a/1643410,a/1647930,a/1651920,a/1653960,a/1666220,a/1668440,a/1675980,a/1677530,a/1681680,a/1685160,a/1688560,a/1702570,a/1707810,a/1710350,a/1722540,a/1722900,a/1727170,a/1728210,a/1729850,a/1744870,a/1746350,a/1747420,a/1747620,a/1747990,a/1748000,a/1749690,a/1752380,a/1752860,a/1763500,a/1771790,a/1772090,a/1772200,a/1772470,a/1782140,a/1783990,a/1801380

!addlicense asf a/1802770,a/1813580,a/1815470,a/1826700,a/1829480,a/1831000,a/1833370,a/1843580,a/1844980,a/1848050,a/1851920,a/1853320,a/1857670,a/1858770,a/1869210,a/1869420,a/1873390,a/1876700,a/1887970,a/1892000,a/1899360,a/1900980,a/1906710,a/1909570,a/1918770,a/1926930,a/1932850,a/1957450,a/1960430,a/1967490,a/1969730,a/1972340,a/1976880,a/1982320,a/1982370,a/1984360,a/1986820,a/1986830,a/1987320,a/1994640,a/2004550,a/2016160,a/2021860,a/2052810,a/2059360,a/2062280,a/2066810,a/2066840,a/2079700,a/2090710,a/2095590

!addlicense asf a/2102160,a/2113870,a/2119040,a/2127140,a/2128650,a/2130600,a/2137890,a/2143080,a/2160160,a/2165190,a/2174390,a/2175430,a/2181310

2 years ago
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I don't use ASF, but thank you for the effort, perhaps others will find it useful.

2 years ago
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thanks a lot, this is way faster

2 years ago
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thank you

2 months ago
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Hello JMM, I very much appreciate the effort!

May I suggest Madjokis Tool? It automatically lists every free soundtrack and if you install the userscript, you can add every soundtrack at once just with the click of one button. This link should take you right to the soundtracks.

You can add every other free stuff on Steam (Games, Demos and so on) the same way if you just change the category on the upper left side.

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Thank you, it sounds like a nice tool.

However, it has the same problem as a similar search on Steam, or using SteamDB instead. It includes free soundtracks that need base game. My list is (mostly) free of those. It also lists ones with store page but still unreleased. And other stuff. Actually it lists almost the same amount (330 products compared to 331 in Steam search), compared to 266 actually available to be added.

Still, I never heard of this page, so I'll take a deeper look, surely it can do things SteamDB can't, and viceversa.

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Yeah, it's not curated, so it has it's flaws. As you pointed out, it also lists free soundtracks for which you have to actually own the base game. Still, I always just try to add all to my account and thus I actually get all soundtracks that indeed are free to add :)

2 years ago
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+1 been fining a lot of great games though the site

2 years ago
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Thank you

2 years ago
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Thanks! Great thread!

2 years ago
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thanks for the list, i think Die Again - Soundtrack can't be activated anymore
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1304900/Die_Again__Soundtrack/

2 years ago
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Can confirm, the status was changed to "unavailable". https://steamdb.info/sub/455321/history/

2 years ago
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Indeed, thanks for reporting, updating in 1 minute.

2 years ago
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Not for me, but I know a irl friend who would be interested; Thank you!

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thank you for the list :-)

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For the poll, I chose 2nd. Battlechasers : Nightwar, Redout (Enhanced Edition), and PinOut is three of my favorites if anyone interested. However, when it comes to quality, if it's not lossless, then I won't bother with it. MP3 DLC(s) suck, I don't think there's a point buying a soundtrack unless it's lossless, and this list helped me to save some (some dlc like Frostpunk actually lossless and pretty good). Thanks!

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After almost 2 years, the list has been updated with one OST. I discovered there was a game in this series that was released first, and it's free, but adding the OST also adds the game; for me it breaks the "no base game needed" rule so I ended not adding it.

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Those should be able to be added via the "install" button in SteamDB. No need for the extension, but you need to log in with your Steam account just like you do here in SG.

Also change the URL from https://store.steampowered.com/app/1932850/Cursed_Quest_Soundtrack/ to https://steamdb.info/app/1932850/

It's all well explained in the pastelink, IIRC.

2 months ago
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Still not working for Undying Soundtrack Preview for me, says I don't have the license. :/
Didn't try the others.

Well, Megumin tried them.

While I'm here, thank you for this thread!

2 months ago
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Only RUNE II OST is still addable.

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Damn. But thanks for the info.

2 months ago
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Is there an Archi Steam Farm command for this?

2 months ago
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!addlicense ASF [AppID],[AppID],[AppID],[AppID],..

Usually you can use the AppID from the url, for example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1813580/Tower_To_Heaven_Soundtrack/
Would be !addlicense 1813580 or !addlicense a/1813580

Sometimes the "Free on Demand" package ID doesn't match the one in the URL and you have to check for it on SteamDB (for example).

It's quite easy to extract all the appID from the pastebin text on Linux with a couple of commands.

However, ormax3 already posted the ASG commands for almost all entries a year ago

2 months ago
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What Devotee said, but I advise to use !addlicense a/1813580,a/2345240,a/323410
If you don't put "a/" before the appID, ASF thinks it's a sub, tries it, and only if that fails tries with an app. The problem is not it only takes more tries and it's slower, it also reduces the amount of apps you can activate in an hour.
Also, ASF seems to be only able to take 20 appIDs in each addlicense command.

2 months ago
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Also, ASF seems to be only able to take 20 appIDs in each addlicense command.

New Steam rate limit is 30 activations per 90 minutes or one every three minutes.

2 months ago
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I mean the ASF command only accepts 20 appIDs. If you try to activate 21 within the addlicense parameters, the 21st will not be tried.
When I did it, I prepared all the addlicense with 20 appIDs and tried two every hour.
Now it's even more limited, "nice" to know.
Recently I bought a few bundles because "because". They were 29 games and a ton of DLCs. That was before this change, I guess, but now I'd be able to redeem the games and wait 90 minutes for the DLCs. I think it's unfair. I understand the reasons of having a limit rate, but I also think it should only be applied to unsuccessful activations (dupe or invalid) so legit users with legit keys can activate 100 in 10 minutes if they want.
Sorry about the rambling.

2 months ago
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Really? Thanks for letting me know.
Well, then I guess something changed on ASF's end because in the past, when activations where still limited to 50 in an hour, I could activate 50 with addlicense within ASF.

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Since the topic popped back up:
You can also always use Madjokis site for adding stuff. It has an ASF integration via script. Madjoki is also a part of our SG community, albeit he is hardly active anymore.

2 months ago
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I don`t understand how, but instead of sountracks it activated It Takes Two and Party Animals... What i did wrong?

2 months ago
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Are they the normal games, or friend's passes?
I checked the appID of It Takes Two (normal and friend's pass) and they don't appear in the list, so I don't know what could have happened.

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And how to check if its friends passes? Sorry - Im littl bit old and don`t get, where to look for it

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It should say in your Steam client, library, search for the names of the games and see if they have friend's passes.
But as I said, I have no idea what happened. Maybe you had them and only discovered them among all the new OSTs?

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Managed to activate the most of them. Thx!

2 months ago
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Happy cake day, JMM! :)

2 months ago
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Thanks!

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Added, thanks!

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Updated, thanks for your continuous contributions.

Daemonologie one can be activated normally already. I had no trouble, maybe it was a matter of a server update.

1 month ago
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No problem, have one more ;-)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2284920/Traveler_Music/
Pasting links is easy, updating the list is where the hard work is. ;-)

1 month ago
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TBH I feel lazy for everything lately. But I prefer to update the list (checking that adding works and all that) than searching for new ones. Which IIRC was quite easy, but I don't remember and I'm lazy to rediscover.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3246500/Runny_Bunny__Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3263570/marshal_bronetankovyx_vojsk_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3087770/Mask_Quest_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3249720/KNOCKturne_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265610/Pholee_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228730/Sim_Solver_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3103920/_Warm_Snow_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3220310/Signed_Mary_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3240270/Esli_by_ty_tolko_byl_zdes_Glava_Sutelz__Saundtrek
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062190/First_Dwarf_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/421780/Monstro_Battle_Tactics_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3094360/Mirage_Feathers_Original_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3197660/beAt_Another_Season_Episode_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3162730/When_Shes_Gone_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1316040/FIREFIGHT_RELOADED_ENDGAME__Original_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3207000/D3AD_HAND_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3129850/End_Gate__The_Last_Passenger_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3206230/_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3175830/Big_Red_Planet_Rampage_Soundtrack_and_BBQ
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2258610/Monster_Knockout_Idle_DLC
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3163810/Beauty_Jigsaw__Music_Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164000/Beauty_Solitaire__Music_Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164040/Beauty_Riddle__Music_Pack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3175490/OopzOofs_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1950960/Lord_of_Rigel_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3123300/Mayhems_World_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2496650/The_Shamans_Ark_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3134980/Engraven_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3141050/Battle_Knights_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041660/Fly_Me_To_The_Home_Soundtrack
https://steamdb.info/app/3089900/ - Ready or Not: Supporter OST
https://steamdb.info/app/2721110/ - Cats on Duty Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941130/_1_2_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099820/Breakthrough_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3059680/Sticky_Clicker_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2421220/RogueStone_2_Open_World_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3084730/Sicaria_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3080230/Straimium_Immortaly_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3079700/Skelly_Selest_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3063610/HalfEarth_Socialism_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2258600/Monster_Knockout_Bounce_DLC
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985180/Jumplight_Odyssey_Original_Game_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3051750/Spirits_Abyss_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2925920/TAGLINE_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3026700/Air_Combat_MF_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3021480/OutRoad_Fury_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3031970/Boneraiser_Minions_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008850/OedipusAntigone_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131320/Android_Amazones_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131350/First_Customer_Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1045540/Air_combat_soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1175680/Hospital_9__Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1208820/Seraphic_Destroyer__Soundtrack
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2990610/Starstream_OST
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3024360/True_Abstraction_Rewind_Soundtrack
https://steamdb.info/app/3006740/ - Clickout - Official Soundtrack

Not all from my activations list...

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658 soundtracks have now - https://i.imgur.com/a5eWatA.png
The most of them - free

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As usual the problem is discerning which ones you got from game/bundle activation, which ones you got for free because you had the base game, and the real free ones.
It's a big contribution, it will take me a while to go through all of them. With pb1's one, they're 70 (one was repeated). I have 405 now. But your library is smaller. I'd like to get a hand to the appIDs of your OST list, if you know how to do it. if not, I can explain. I should also try to find the OSTs I have that are free but not in the list.
Thanks for the big chunk of music.

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My library normal - https://i.imgur.com/akrMZYC.png
https://steamcommunity.com/id/blizzardmc_ru/
But yes, little small than your)))

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With that library and time in Steam it's obvious you've found way more OSTs than most of us.
A link to your library is not enough. I have no access to the OST appIDs there. I would need a certain file which is hidden in the mess of files and folders of the Steam installation. If you would like to help, send me a friend invite in Steam and I'll tell you the simple steps.

1 month ago
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If you like, you can send me a friend request and let's see if I can help out :)

View attached image.
1 month ago
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I guess we could squeeze a couple of OSTs from that meager library of yours.
(I remember 1986 when I counted my games and thought "wow, I have more than 50 games!")

1 month ago
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When I joined Steamgifts in 2013, my Steam account had 169 games. So I blame all of you :-P

1 month ago
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Without counting fully free games, my account had exactly 100 games on October the 1st, 2019; the doomed day I found and joined this hell.
(139 Games counting the free ones.)

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