Folks,
The Sydney Morning Herald rated Wikipedia #2 on its list of amazing music sites behind ITunes and ahead of my space. The article is found in full here.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/digital-music/15-most-amazing-music-sites-on-the-...
Our entry reads:
*2. WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG http://www.wikipedia.org/*
*Best for:* band biographies and free classical music.
Almost everyone knows about Wikipedia - the free-content, web-based encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers. Evidently those volunteers include a fair share of music fans: you can find a vast store of musical knowledge here, covering pretty much every base. One noteworthy aspect of Jimmy Wales' creation is that Wikipedia also contains a vast reservoir of free sound files.
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players. *KILLIAN FOX* Regards
Keith Old
Keith Old
On 7/22/06, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
Almost everyone knows about Wikipedia - the free-content, web-based encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers. Evidently those volunteers include a fair share of music fans: you can find a vast store of musical knowledge here, covering pretty much every base. One noteworthy aspect of Jimmy Wales' creation is that Wikipedia also contains a vast reservoir of free sound files.
We have a vast reservoir of free sound files? Who knew?
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players.
Where are we getting these copyright-free recordings from?
Steve
On 7/22/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players.
Where are we getting these copyright-free recordings from?
I belive we have a number of musicians for some of them.
I supose there is a limited amount of stuff that you could rip from very old records.
We also have short low quality samples under fair-use for critical commetary and idetification.
xaosflux
----- Original Message ----- From: "geni" geniice@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia number 2 on Sydney Morning Herald list ofmusic sites
On 7/22/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players.
Where are we getting these copyright-free recordings from?
I belive we have a number of musicians for some of them.
I supose there is a limited amount of stuff that you could rip from very old records.
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On 7/22/06, xaosflux xaosflux@gmail.com wrote:
We also have short low quality samples under fair-use for critical commetary and idetification.
Very few.. however.
A lot of our music is free.. er well.. I hope.. a lot has been uploaded by Mr. ironic, so I'm a bit hesitant to look for fear of what I'd find. ;)
Steve Bennett wrote:
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players.
Where are we getting these copyright-free recordings from?
Haven't downloaded many, but the ones I found were all cheap MIDI synthesised versions.
Timwi
On 7/26/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Haven't downloaded many, but the ones I found were all cheap MIDI synthesised versions.
MIDI classical music. For anything other than a Bach fugue, it doesn't get much worse.
Steve
On 7/26/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Because of copyright laws, the site doesn't have much by contemporary artists but its classical collection is growing daily. Mozart and Beethoven are best represented, with more than 20 pieces each. Other composers have fewer files, and they are in the "Ogg Vorbis" format, which won't play on an iPod although they are compatible with most computer players.
Where are we getting these copyright-free recordings from?
Haven't downloaded many, but the ones I found were all cheap MIDI synthesised versions.
Timwi
Actually, there is some really great stuff on wikipedia. A list can be found at [[Wikipedia:Sound/list]]. All of them are properly licensed (many, I notice come from a site called Free music!) which might be due to the fact that the majority of them were uploaded by Raul654.
Check it out, it's really cool! Some of them live converted on my iPod right now.