Antmeister
02-15-2006, 01:39 AM
While listening to one of my podcasts, the host mentioned how she acquired her new bumper music from this online label called Magnatune. As usual, my curiosity got me totally sidetracked and I looked into their website and of course this lead me to other sites of this nature.
Magnatune: http://magnatune.com/
What is nice about this label is that they have taken on a new philosophy about selling music. You can listen to an artists' entire label for free and decide to purchase that able from anywhere to $5 to $18 ($8 is what they suggest as typical, but you can buy from anywhere in that range). What is also nice is that if you need to license the music for film, internet, DVD, etc., it is automated on their web site. Very nice! Now for the sake of musicians who may want to take a chance there, they split the costs of the album 50/50 and that is just a small part of the contract terms which can be viewed herehere (http://magnatune.com/info/terms). Just think of this place as a shareware label. Nice!
Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/us/
While Magnatune is like shareware, Jamendo falls more under the category of donationware. The music supplied on this site is free and can only be used for non-commercial purposed under the Creative Commons license. That means the music can be freely traded (depending on how it was licensed), but it is encouraged that you donate to the artist if you like the song. For licensing for commercial work, they have a section The site is not that well organized, but there is some great music there. I am currently listening to MEA and the music is awesome.
ccMixter: http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/home
For all you mixer out there (if any), here is a site that will allow you to take samples of anyone's work that fall under the Creative Commons license and make new creations. The Beastie Boys even allowed for some of their music to be sampled here. This is a better organized site. If you are an artist that would want to hear how someone would remix your song, this is a good way to go.
So check out these sites just for listening to the music alone.
Magnatune: http://magnatune.com/
What is nice about this label is that they have taken on a new philosophy about selling music. You can listen to an artists' entire label for free and decide to purchase that able from anywhere to $5 to $18 ($8 is what they suggest as typical, but you can buy from anywhere in that range). What is also nice is that if you need to license the music for film, internet, DVD, etc., it is automated on their web site. Very nice! Now for the sake of musicians who may want to take a chance there, they split the costs of the album 50/50 and that is just a small part of the contract terms which can be viewed herehere (http://magnatune.com/info/terms). Just think of this place as a shareware label. Nice!
Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/us/
While Magnatune is like shareware, Jamendo falls more under the category of donationware. The music supplied on this site is free and can only be used for non-commercial purposed under the Creative Commons license. That means the music can be freely traded (depending on how it was licensed), but it is encouraged that you donate to the artist if you like the song. For licensing for commercial work, they have a section The site is not that well organized, but there is some great music there. I am currently listening to MEA and the music is awesome.
ccMixter: http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/home
For all you mixer out there (if any), here is a site that will allow you to take samples of anyone's work that fall under the Creative Commons license and make new creations. The Beastie Boys even allowed for some of their music to be sampled here. This is a better organized site. If you are an artist that would want to hear how someone would remix your song, this is a good way to go.
So check out these sites just for listening to the music alone.