Let’s say you are working on a media project, maybe even planning a podcast (hint) and need some good background or music. Where do you go for open licensed music? Especially with a global / international focus?
Open music: is it viable? flickr photo by opensourceway shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
I have a few sources from an old project but bet there are some much better ones.
- ccMixter - remixes of cc licensed music http://www.ccmixter.org/
- Free Music Archive - library of high quality copyright cleared music curated by WFMU http://freemusicarchive.org/
- Funky Remixes http://funkyremixes.com/
- Incompetech Royalty Free Music http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
- Internet Archive Audio http://www.archive.org/details/audio
- Internet Archive 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings https://archive.org/details/78rpm
- Jamendo http://www.jamendo.com/
- Musopen - copyright free music (and sheet music) http://www.musopen.org/
- Podsafe Audio http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
- Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/
- Purple Planet http://www.purple-planet.com/
- Wiki Songbook for Free Music - a song book for free music, and also to provide a space for collaborative songwriting http://freemusicwiki.org/
- WikiMedia Commons Audio https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sound
Thanks for your suggestions.