Welcome to the list, Jan-Cristoph! Good to see you around these parts :) I would be remiss if I didn't follow up on the inclusion of SoundCloud in this discussion. Take it with a grain of salt, because I work there, but I think it's actually a really good tool for releasing free culture music. (And other audio, too. We've got plenty of e-books, speeches, field recordings, etc etc on there.)
It's got full support for the suite of Creative Commons licenses, and license badges are displayed visibly on the track player. The player itself, too, has some implications for free culture. It's currently Flash-based, but there's an HTML5 option that is available to enable on the site, and users are welcome to build their own players with any technology and stream over the API. (In fact, we've provided an open source players that are HTML/CSS/JS and can be easily dropped into a web page. Check it out: https://github.com/soundcloud/soundcloud-custom-player and check out the other open source projects there.) Significantly, though, the embeddable player makes it easy to re-distribute music in a way that maintains the license. Because there isn't a widely adopted standard of embedding license information into actual song files, that information can be lost when the file changes hands, say when somebody posts an mp3 to their blog to discuss it. Because SoundCloud uses embeds, it's easy to blog a song that's uploaded there without having to worry about preserving the attribution or license data. It also accepts not just mp3 and wav, et al, but also ogg and flac files for uploading and downloading. On top of those free culture benefits, it may generally be an easier sell for non-free-culture-geeks than Jamendo. It's a popular and featureful platform, and there are over 100 and counting applications that support it in some way. But I think I've rambled enough... I'm just excited about it, and want it to continue to grow as a place for free music. If anybody has any questions about it, definitely feel free to ask me. Thanks, Parker On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt < [email protected]> wrote: > I recently talked to a DJ working with a netlabel that releases its tracks > under CC licenses (unfortunately nc-nd). They already use SoundCloud; apart > from joining Jamendo and Libre.fm, I recommended to him: > Use by-sa (see the movies below for reasons ;) > Add a Flattr badge: http://flattr.com > > CC sample archive: http://www.ccmixter.org/ > CC sound archive: http://www.freesound.org/ > Community Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio > Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/ > > The movies > Alternative Freedom: http://www.archive.org/details/AlternativeFreedom > RIP - A Remix Manifesto: http://ripremix.com > Good Copy Bad Copy: http://goodcopybadcopy.net > Everything is a Remix: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/?p=20 > > > Also, as this is my first post to this list, a quick introduction: > I‘m a free culture enthusiast from Germany and currently work at a Berlin > usability agency. At a Drumbeat meetup, Parker Higgins told me about > Students for Free Culture. When I return to Stuttgart Media University in > Spring to finish my studies, I plan on starting a SFC group there. :) > My blog is at https://jancborchardt.wordpress.com/ and also > http://identi.ca/jancborchardt > > > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:26:16 +0000, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/13/2010 11:57 PM, Parker wrote: >> >>> This week in "Parker tries to write recipes for Free Culture activism..." >>> >>> Say you have a good friend that's in a local band. What can you do to >>> help them out with being more free culture-ey? >>> >> >> Get them on libre.fm! :-) >> >> - Rob. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- parker higgins berlin, germany http://parkerhiggins.net gmail / gchat: [email protected] twitter / identi.ca: @thisisparker skype: thisisparker please consider software freedom before reading this e-mail on a proprietary platform
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