Free Music Archive Launches With 5K Tracks
To Harness The Power Of Free Music
The Free Music Archive has launched with 5000 tracks available for free use under Creative Commons and similar licenses. Unlike similar projects that can turn into a free for all of mostly bad music, tracks in the FMA are curated and categorized by a group lead by NJ free form radio station WFMU.
Other curators include KEXP, dublab, KBOO, ISSUE Project Room, and CASH Music. Together they have created a site that combines the song picking prowess of a great free form radio show with a more community generated approach. All tracks are pre-cleared for free down load as well as podcast, remix samples, and music for audio and video productions.
The Free Music Archive was inspired by Creative Commons and the open source software movement. Its goal is to provide a legal and technological framework for curators, artists, and listeners to harness the potential of music sharing in freelly, legally and at no cost .
Every artist page has a bio, tour dates and links to the artists’ home page. Profiles will contain links to buy vull albums via each artists preferred vendor and PayPal tip jars. While the Free Music Archive is free and open without registration, all content is currated and permission to upload content is on an invitation basis.
Much more on the power and value of free music here.
Is there a link in this article somewhere to the Free Music Archive
Here is what I found:
http://freemusicarchive.org/
Sorry for the oversight. The link has been added.
No sorries need, just trying to help – I love the work you put out there!
are other services free to provide this music for stream or download?
We’re happy to report that our label WM Recordings was added to the list of curators too. All of our nearly 100 free album releases (all CC of course) will appear in the FMA over the next few weeks.
Our first contributions can be found here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WM_Recordings
We invite users to inform us if they use any of our free releases for their own projects.
Everybody needs free music!