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Open Source Music

X-Ross writes "As big labels battle it out in a Post-Napster world, open source comes to music ... Creative Commons has a feature on an open source style music site for artists launched by Sal Randolph. Here is the link to her site Opsound."

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  1. Opensource music by Andreas(R) · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is nothing like the OpenBsd Song

    1. Re:Opensource music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >>> There is nothing like the OpenBsd Song

      Which should have been released under the forbidden licence.

  2. Re:Take a look by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other words, no one would buy it anyway.

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  3. How to get open-source music by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    - download openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz
    - tar -zxf openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz
    - cd ./2b3
    - make config
    - make single
    - make install_single
    - xmms 2b2.mp3
    *** core dump ***

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  4. Here is my favorite opensource band by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Funny
    Scientist and gangster artist MCHawkingshas free mp3's at his website. Its all about the theory of relativity baby. Besides rapping he is also actively working towards the unified field theory.

  5. Open Source music?? by Mononoke · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've never really needed the original source for the music I reproduce, as I can play quite well by ear. I can reverse-engineer pretty much anything I hear on the radio or elsewhere.

    Aside from that, there is more than enough open-source music available for everyone's use, for free: Circle of fifths, A-minor scale, 1-4-5 blues chord progressions, things like that.

    (I'll admit that some of Frank Zappa's stuff is pretty heavily encrypted, but his family's been nice about not waving the DMCA at us.)

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  6. Re:Great by Mononoke · · Score: 3, Funny
    So who is registering openboyband.org, openrock.org, openjazz.org, etc?
    I was gonna go for openmadonna.org, but then I said to myself "What the fuck are you doing?", and left it alone.

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  7. Re:All music is open source by Steven+Blanchley · · Score: 2, Funny

    "dunkin donuts screaming match" is awesome. I think I'll sample it heavily on my next 12" release.

  8. Re:Huh? by yomegaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it's anything like the OSS projects on sourceforge, open source music is just a click track and maybe a bass line. The rest of the tracks are "in development" or "coming soon" as soon as the project finds more volunteers.

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