Audio
This is a list of Creative Commons licensed audio media. Please see the Books page and use it as a guide for how to lay out this one. The original page is partially ported here.
Contents
Types of Audio
Featured Audio Sites
Podcasting Legal Guide
Inspired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's <a href="http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/">Legal Guide for Bloggers</a>, the Podcasting Legal Guide is designed to outline both legal and practical issues that are specifically relevant for podcasters, such as using music and video in a podcast.
Diesel-U-Music
The 2006 edition of this international music contest was open to unsigned artists playing rock, urban/hip-hop, and electronic music. This year's entries are licensed to the public under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license.
Jamendo
Provides an archive of CC-licensed music that's available for download via P2P. Jamendo features tags, user reviews and personalized recommendations, so you can easily find new tunes that suit your tastes.
ccMixter
A music remix site that tracks samples across different artists, all available under sampling licenses so that you too can join in the mix.
Magnatune
A new music label focused on try-before-you-buy music. Features licensed, downloadable tracks from a wide variety of artists that can also be purchased direct from the site
SectionZ
An electronic music community that offers Creative Commons-licensed tracks from genres like IDM, drum 'n' bass, and ambient.
" Dmusic
The oldest online digital music community, DMusic offers Creative Commons licenses for artists hosting their music.
Opsound
Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s.
OYEZ
Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, with more to come
SoundClick
Thousands of licensed music files are available here, on this community music hosting service.
HOWTO License
External Links
- Freesound
- A collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.
- This week in amateur radio
- The Metaphysician
- Audioscrobbler
- Books on MP3: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- zug's protest song
- Electrobel music community
- Loca Records
- Fray Audio archive
- The Speech Accent Archive
- Opsound in Action
- The Phoenix Trap
- Erik Ostrom
- Please add to the list