Music+&+Sound



** What follows are sources of sound and music recordings that are shared for use under CC (creative Commons) Licenses and so permission for their use has already been granted. In the US, the act of making a recording invokes a copyright. If an artist uses a Creative Commons license, he/she has decided to make the recording available to others to use and has set the conditions for that use. **

**Please ensure students understand and respect the license provisions the artists have chosen for their work.(Note: 'no derivatives' in music means no messing with the original!) **

|| "Free-Loops.com provides **free loops** and **audio clip downloads** to the music production community.Think of Free-Loops.com as your online audio toolbox that you can access anywhere anytime." || *Sound effects . ||
 * **Linked Images ** || **Website Quotes ** || ** My Comments ** ||
 * [[image:free-loops.jpg width="149" height="78" link="http://free-loops.com/"]]
 * Over 6000 clips they have produced
 * Also provide tips and tutorials (eg. [|Recording Vocals at Home])
 * Links to free software such as -->
 * [[image:freeplay_music.jpg width="234" height="45" link="http://live.freeplaymusic.com/#highlight=4"]] || There's also an [|older website].

People can also submit music to this website. || Scroll down to the section on "[|Free Student Educational Use]" Freeplay offers "free" master and synchronization licenses to qualifying students for class projects that are not broadcast or distributed outside of the classroom. We often work with schools, school districts and universities to customize per-project and blanket licenses which will give students and teachers a legal music resource for any projects made for broadcast or distribution. Please ask us about our educational discounts! . || . || *Sounds || . || *Music . || *Music || "The Open Music Archive aims to gather together information about and recordings of public domain music. This is music whose copyright has expired. This music can be used by anyone for any purpose. The archive is open for anyone to use and contribute to." . || *Music . || Music Files, sheet music, can add content, streaming radio || . || *Music || . || *Music . || *Sounds || "It is important that you understand the difference between a "musical work" and a "sound recording". A musical work and a sound recording of a musical work have separate copyright protection. The children's song, "Three Blind Mice" is absolutely in the public domain worldwide. You may publish it, record it, sing it, use it in your movie, or do anything else with "Three Blind Mice" that you can ever imagine. However, no sound recordings of "Three Blind Mice" are in the public domain." . || *Reference || Shamblesguru often show up in the Classroom 2.0 Live sessions to share from his huge compendium of resources & links. || *Reference & Resources ||
 * [[image:free_sound_project.jpg link="http://www.freesound.org/searchText.php"]] || "The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... We are looking for institutions and schools who want to help us with this effort. Do you think your institution can help us fill the database? Do you have students who can help us by doing (field-)recordings as assignments? Recordings of instruments?"
 * Must register ||  ||
 * [[image:GRSites.jpg link="http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/"]][[image:GRSites_2.jpg link="http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/"]] || Nearly 2000 "high quality, attractive sound effects for use in web pages, games and multimedia applications." If you use their sounds, please link back to the main website. || *Sounds
 * Part of a larger shared collection including background textures, button & logo makers, web graphics, and lots more at [|GRSites.com]
 * They ask for registration, but everything seems to work without. ||
 * [[image:ibeat.jpg link="http://ibeat.org/"]] || "iBeat is more open than free. The production music and shots here, are available under Creative Commons licensing. This means some is public domain, some available for commercial use under attribution, and most under a non-commercial license. Please note and respect the individual license which entries are tagged with." || *Music
 * Good descriptions and tags
 * Each preview has linked CC license key beneath it so you can check for any special provisions:
 * [[image:incompetech.jpg link="http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/"]] || "A credit needs to be placed such that a person who wants to know where the music came from should have no difficulty in finding it. If your project has only one piece in it; you can credit it as . If your project has many pieces from different people, you can credit me as It is important that you replace the word //// with the **Actual Title** of the piece that you are using!"
 * Other resources shared for people to use: [|Graph and Grid Paper]; [|Theatre Scripts] ||
 * [[image:jamendo.jpg link="http://www.jamendo.com/en/"]] || "Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. Share your music, download your favorite artists!"
 * Must register ||
 * [[image:open_music.jpg width="83" height="82" link="http://www.openmusicarchive.org/index.php"]]
 * Full songs instead of clips
 * No preview? ||
 * [[image:musopen.jpg width="217" height="41" link="@http://www.musopen.com/"]] || "Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to **set music free**."
 * [[image:my_soundfx.jpg link="http://www.mysoundfx.com/"]] || "The Sound Effects Archive currently contains 592 downloads in 46 categories." || *Sounds
 * Also have links to other sites, a neat blog, tutorials, and how to's on [|sound engineering and Foley effects]
 * Subscribe by RSS ||
 * [[image:podsafe.jpg link="http://www.podsafeaudio.com/"]] || (Seems to be a place for artists to post their music to an online audience) || *Music
 * Must register; can subscribe by RSS
 * Can set up stations
 * Artists contribute articles
 * Have online events ||
 * [[image:purple_planet.jpg width="39" height="83"]][[image:purple_planet_2.jpg link="http://www.purple-planet.com/"]] || "Welcome to the Purple Planet Royalty-Free Music site - a 'pay what you like' collection of incidental music from composers Chris Martyn and Geoff Harvey, based in Leeds, in the north of England. All the music here can be used for any type of film production or web presentation (youtube, podcasts, blogs etc) including revenue-generating, commercial uses. You can pay whatever amount you're comfortable with."
 * Can preview in 3 versions
 * [[image:samplenet.jpg link="http://http://www.samplenet.co.uk/"]] || "SampleNet is the world's first free sample search engine. There are thousands of CD-quality samples here for you to search and download."
 * Does not seem to be a way to preview ||
 * [[image:sound_jay.jpg link="http://www.soundjay.com/"]] || "You are allowed to use the sounds on our website free of charge and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else.
 * Can download as wav or mp3 ||
 * [[image:soungle.jpg link="http://www.soungle.com/?PHPSESSID=ea784b6b39746cd8dee9d91bbc88b9be"]] || "Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page." || *Sounds
 * "Find all kinds of sound FX and musical instruments samples on our mega online library" ||
 * [[image:Larry.jpg link="http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/12/08/the-best-places-to-get-royalty-free-music-sound-effects/"]] || His blog is the source for most of the music and sound sites posted above. || *Reference & Resources
 * I had an awful day yesterday and [|this post]is a particularly good read. ||
 * [[image:public_domain.jpg link="http://www.pdinfo.com/index.php"]]
 * US copyright law ||
 * [[image:shamblesguru.jpg link="http://www.shambles.net/"]]
 * [|His list] has CC licensed and royalty-free sites I have not posted myself. ||
 * Credit for top image || [|Flickr Creative Commons] menu page || More at: