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.”

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