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Free Music

Free music is a music which could be defined with four freedoms: to play the music for any purpose, to study it and learn, to share it with others, to modify it and redistribute in modified version. You can do it as long the freedom is preserved by you.

If you wonder is it possible for you to actually switch to free music, then here are some numbers describing a bit the great creativity out there [2010-11-09 jamendo database]:

  • Number of songs: 319 873,
  • Number of cataloged genres: 81,
  • Number of artists: 24723,
  • Number of albums: 46308,
  • Total time: 890 days 20 hours and 37 minutes


Great sources of free music are:

Free Music Radios

Libre.fm

Libre.fm allows you to share your listening habits and discover new music. Is an Internet radio station build with Free Software, streaming 100% indie artists. Libre.fm actively supports the creation of music by independent artists, and only plays music that has been licensed freely. You own your own listening data. Everything you put into Libre.fm is yours, not their. Take it away and do cool things! Legally download and share any track. Every song on Libre.fm is made by musicians who want you to share their music. Your privacy, taken care of as well.

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Free Music Archives

Jamendo

Jemendo is a web service offering free music, but be careful because not everything what they publish is a free music! Check always the licenses, because if you are an artist, it's probably extremely important for you to be able to be inspired by other artists and be free to use the music in your mixes as long you credit them.

How to download ogg files / albums / songs from jamnedo


Free Music Archive

"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. It's not just free music; it's good music."


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