[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Nov 19 14:40:31 EST 2007


On Monday 19 November 2007 13:09:27 Gavin Baker wrote:
> Elizabeth Stark wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2007 8:43 PM, Christopher Budnick <cbudnick at gmail.com
> > <mailto:cbudnick at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     This is one of the big problems that we've had with talking to
> > artists about licensing their existing and new material liberally: so
> > much of the free stuff right now is bad electronica. I don't know the
> > history of that project you linked to, but this is a problem with a lot
> > of the material on ccMixter, and it's the same problem with most music,
> > most of it's bad, most of it's electronica (on the internet, at least). I
> > agree with you that organization and discovery are fungible, as are the
> > tasks of convincing the best local and non-local bands you know to
> > release their existing and new music to the commons.
> >
> >
> > Yup, hopefully the FMA and OLPC Free Music project and Rrcd Lbl will
> > change this, but I find it extremely difficult to find *any* CC music
> > that I actually really like. I'm also a big fan of electronic music, so
> > that says something. What I did find that was effective was getting
> > artists who I knew to release music that I liked under CC for the OLPC
> > project (some of which is BY-SA), but it took a lot of
> > convincing...(Seems like it's the easiest way to find CC music that I
> > like though.)
> >
> > I may be missing some of the CC music scene, but whenever I go to try to
> > find CC music, I may find something that is halfway decent, but my bar
> > should be if I'd actually like it if it weren't CC. And I am admittedly
> > picky, so that's a pretty high bar to pass.
>
> I have to admit I'm in the same boat! I'm sure there's good stuff out
> there, but the search costs are just too high to sift the wheat from the
> chaff (at least to my tastes).

Plus, in searching for music and say BY-SA you often get text pages licensed 
BY-SA discussing or linking to music with other more restrictive licenses 
including ARR music. This is a royal pain.

> I've been just as successful finding 
> music I like on obscure netlabels as through the big CC music channels
> like Jamendo, Magnatune, or ccMixter. Unfortunately, I think we're still
> lacking when it comes to promotion, tastemakers and recommendation
> engines for CC music.

I found some decent tunes with irate radio in the past, but it does not let me 
specify licenses andfor what I am into now, I am looking for BY and BY-SA 
tunes that I like.

Have you tried irate?

all the best,

drew





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