Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Free music taskforce
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Purpose
- Obtaining permission for freely licensed, full-length free music
- Uploading it and correctly tagging it
- Making sure it gets added to related articles (song, composer, performer, etc); making sure those articles exist if notable
- Cataloging it ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sound/list&action=history catalog history])
- Identifying, developing, and/or assisting in the development of tools to do the above.
- Having a central place to discuss issues related to the above.
- Getting people interested in doing this as well
Members
- Raul654
- Anythingyouwant
- Ravedave
- Antandrus (expertise: classical, Middle Ages to present day)
- Graham87
- Tarabaltazar
- —La Pianista ♫ ♪ (classical piano)
- Violarulez
- Ftiercel (electronic music)
Tools
- Creating
- [http://www.audiotool.com/ Audiotool] - A DAW in a cloud. Allows the user to find CC-BY-SA tracks, explore a track's source projects, modify it, publish it and download it.
- Editing
- [http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity] - Open source music editor. May require [http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php LAME].
- [http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Splitting_recordings_into_separate_tracks Splitting recordings into separate tracks with Audacity]
- Converting
- [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm Dbpoweramp]
- Uploading
- [http://www.djini.de/software/commonist/ Commonist]
- Searching Wikimedia Commons
- [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ogg_files_of_music Ogg Files]
- [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_music_by_type Other Files]
- Downloading
- [http://www.downthemall.net/ Downthemall] - Firefox extension
- Wget - Unix command line utility
Templates
{{listen
| filename = Vivaldi - Four Seasons 1 Spring mvt 1 Allegro - John Harrison violin.oga
| title = "La primavera" (Spring) – Movement 1: Allegro from The Four Seasons
| description = A 2000 live performance by Wichita State University Chamber Players (using {{Tl|Listen}}).
| type = music
}}
- {{Tl|Listen}} - use {{Para|type|music}}
{{Listen| filename= FileName.ogg | title= Title | description= Title performed by Foo | type= music}}
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