The Free Music Archive Launches
On 4th April 2009, WFMU celebrated the launch of its new website, The Free Music Archive, open to the public in its beta version.
From FMA’s Jason Sigal:
Every track [on the FMA] will be offered in high-quality without restrictions, registration, advertisements or fees. Many grant additional rights under Creative Commons agreements, making the FMA a valuable resource for podcasters, video producers, remix artists, and others in search of legal audio. […] Radio has always offered free access to curated audio, and the Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose designed for the Internet era.
Since there is so much content on the site, the FMA is featuring particular curators such as WFMU, KEXP, and dublab.
So go register an account, and start downloading some of the 5,000 tracks already posted, or search by license type (special kudos to WFMU for incorporating some non-standard license search options here), and help one of the world’s greatest independent stations thrive on the net!
Tags: Creative Commons community, Free knowledge, Free music archive (Fma), Frontiere digitali, Jason Sigal, Music, WFMU
April/04/2009 at 10:59
We’re happy to report that our label WM Recordings was added to the list of curators too. All of our nearly 100 free album releases (all CC of course) will appear in the FMA over the next few weeks.
Our first contributions can be found here:
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WM_Recordings
We invite users to inform us if they use any of our free releases for their own projects.
Everybody needs free music!