MyWiki:WikiProject Music/Free music taskforce

Purpose

• 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

• Raul654
• Anythingyouwant
• Ravedave
• Antandrus (expertise: classical, Middle Ages to present day)
• Graham87
• Tarabaltazar
• —La Pianista ^{♫ ♪} (classical piano)
• Violarulez
• Ftiercel (electronic music)

Tools

• 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
  • Dbpoweramp
• Uploading
  • Commonist
• Searching Wikimedia Commons
  • Ogg Files
  • Other Files
• Downloading
  • Downthemall - Firefox extension
  • Wget - Unix command line utility

Templates

• {{Listen}} - use |type=music
  • {{Listen| filename= FileName.ogg | title= ''Title'' | description= ''Title'' performed by Foo | type= music}}