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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How to get open-source music

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

- 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 ***

Here is my favorite opensource band

[Billly Gates]

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.

Open Source music??

[Mononoke]

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.)

Re:Huh?

[yomegaman]

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.