Finding Free Music for a Free Film with Jamendo, VLC, and K3B

"One of the great advantages of using a free license for a work is that you can re-use a growing body of free-licensed source material to help you do it. But it can seem a little daunting to find the material that you both want and can legally use. Here's a little bit of my strategy, a few tips, and some sources, including Jamendo, which I found to be the most useful for finding music. I also touch upon some useful free software tools for listening and sorting tracks.

"Making Movies with Free Software

"This article is part of an on-going series on the challenges I've faced in producing two free-licensed movies, Marya Morevna, through the Morevna Project and Lunatics, which we are working on as Anansi Spaceworks. Cooperation, Appropriation, and Free-culture

"When advocating free licenses (especially copyleft licenses), I often mention the benefit of being able to reuse other works under the same free licenses. But when do we actually see the payoff on that? Free licensed source material can be a challenge to find, and even when it is well-marked on the individual works, it can be a pain sifting through all of the non-free works to find the free ones. Over time, though, I've accumulated a number of good sources and techniques for finding what I'm looking for that I want to outline here."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• MediaWiki and Script Translation for the Morevna Project(Jul 16, 2010)
• Book Review: Foundation Blender Compositing by Roger Wickes(Jul 13, 2010)
• Extracting and Using a Recorded Sound Effect with VLC and Audacity(Jun 24, 2010)
• Soyuz Launch Vehicle in Blender: Part I, Modelling the Core Stage(Jun 18, 2010)
• Storyboards for a film with Flickr, OpenClipart, Inkscape, Gimp, and ImageMagick(Jun 11, 2010)
• Making Movies with Free Software(Jun 10, 2010)