The Great Freebie Music Quest
Dec. 30th, 2007 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000I'm bored.
So I got to thinking.
You see why I should always be entertained now right?
Anyhow, I wondered how much music was available on the net for free directly from artists for download. And so I started looking around here and there. Not too concerned about the quality of the mp3s (or oggs, etc etc) so long as it's playable. Looking at the stuff I currently have on the harddrive that fit this bill (Stuff by Jonathan Coulton, stuff released on The FuMP, plus a couple that were on Homestar Runner and Symphony X's website) the directory is already 128megs.
I'll pass over samples when I do some further searching. (you know, artists that have 30sec-1min snippets of their songs for free) The songs I downloaded from Symphony X's homepage were full tracks. Quite nice.
I'll place a goal of trying to find 80gigs for the end of 2008. You know, just to show you can fill up an ipod if you really try. ;) I'll update my progress now and then over the year.
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Mord
So I got to thinking.
You see why I should always be entertained now right?
Anyhow, I wondered how much music was available on the net for free directly from artists for download. And so I started looking around here and there. Not too concerned about the quality of the mp3s (or oggs, etc etc) so long as it's playable. Looking at the stuff I currently have on the harddrive that fit this bill (Stuff by Jonathan Coulton, stuff released on The FuMP, plus a couple that were on Homestar Runner and Symphony X's website) the directory is already 128megs.
I'll pass over samples when I do some further searching. (you know, artists that have 30sec-1min snippets of their songs for free) The songs I downloaded from Symphony X's homepage were full tracks. Quite nice.
I'll place a goal of trying to find 80gigs for the end of 2008. You know, just to show you can fill up an ipod if you really try. ;) I'll update my progress now and then over the year.
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Mord
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Date: 2007-12-31 05:33 am (UTC)Another aspect I'm considering is to whether or not allow video game remixes (like those from overclocked-remix). That would probably be about 5-10gigs right there, but I don't really feel like overloading on video game music. That being said, if I find video game soundtracks from developers themselves I'll likely add it. One example is for the fan-made Kings Quest IX game (That's since been renamed to The Silver Lining but Sierra's cool with it I believe).
I'll see about doing some sort of meter etc for progress reporting a bit later. Well, attempt some sort of meter. >_> If it ends up sucking I'll cry about it in later reports. :)