Free CD-Quality Music

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 2, 2003 @02:29PM from the get-yourself-a-foley-box dept.

Scaife writes "I make a video project for school each year, and this year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it. The only catch is that we don't have the time or money to get copyright permissions for the 100+ songs we use for it. I'm wondering if there is a large repository of CD-quality royalty-free music somewhere. Whenever I try and take one of the royalty-free MP3s available on the web and use it on a DVD, the quality is awful as it pops and hisses. I suppose this is because of the lossy compression. Any ideas?"

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What type of school? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-02 14:37 · Score: 2, Insightful

Do you have a band? Could they play some royalty free music? Perhaps some classic works?
Uhh, pops and hiss? by delus10n0 · 2003-03-03 04:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

Sorry, but pops and hiss are not caused by lossy compression in the MP3 format. Most likely you're forgetting to convert your 44.1KHz audio to 48KHz (which is what a DVD uses..)

If your video/audio editing software was decent, it should have done this for you automagically.

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