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

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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