Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Free music taskforce
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Purpose
[edit]- Obtaining permission for freely licensed, full-length free music
- Uploading it and correctly tagging it
- Making sure it gets added to related articles (song, composer, performer, etc); making sure those articles exist if notable
- Cataloging it (catalog history)
- Identifying, developing, and/or assisting in the development of tools to do the above.
- Having a central place to discuss issues related to the above.
- Getting people interested in doing this as well
Members
[edit]- Raul654
- Anythingyouwant
- Ravedave
- Antandrus (expertise: classical, Middle Ages to present day)
- Graham87
- Tarabaltazar
- —La Pianista ♫ ♪ (classical piano)
- Violarulez
- Ftiercel (electronic music)
Tools
[edit]- Creating
- Audiotool - A DAW in a cloud. Allows the user to find CC-BY-SA tracks, explore a track's source projects, modify it, publish it and download it.
- Editing
- Audacity - Open source music editor. May require LAME.
- Splitting recordings into separate tracks with Audacity
- Converting
- Uploading
- Searching Wikimedia Commons
- Downloading
- Downthemall - Firefox extension
- Wget - Unix command line utility
Templates
[edit]
- {{Listen}} - use
|type=music{{Listen| filename= FileName.ogg | title= ''Title'' | description= ''Title'' performed by Foo | type= music}}
