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Project To Turn Classical Scores Into Copyright-Free Music Completed

Posted by samzenpus on from the music-of-the-masses dept.

yourlord writes "Just under two years ago Musopen launched a Kickstarter campaign covered here on Slashdot. Today that project is complete with the release of a large amount of classical recordings into the public domain. This brings an extensive collection of high quality classical music into the public domain. The project music is hosted on the Musopen site, and on archive.org."

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  1. It was me! by garglebutt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I invested in this. Great idea to set music free. Enjoy the downloads.

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    1. Re:It was me! by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I think the main reason he's doing it is because Microsoft became really boring.

      Operating Systems? Meh. Office? Meh.

      What, in the world of pure software, is going to make a real difference in peoples lives (not just a marginal difference)? Or a real difference to his bank balance?

      if I was even 1 / 10,000th as rich as Bill Gates (a respectable $6,000,000 dollars) I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to gild my corporate cage a bit more ; I'd be working on problems that interest me.

  2. Nicely done! by symbolset · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fantastic. Now let's do it again until more classical works are liberated. And visit their "donate" button.

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    1. Re:Nicely done! by Swistak · · Score: 5, Interesting

      wav is not only losless format. Files are distrubuted also in m4f and flac ( http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7536456/2012_Musopen_Kickstarter_Project_%5BFLAC%5D ) Quality of recordings done by kickstarter campaign is excellent. And there was poll amongst backers what to do with money. I as one of backers (overwheliming majority) decided we want to have more music with good quality, then one or two tracks with perfect quality. If you want perfect recording from best orchestra in the world, go and buy it on dvd.