Music & MP3

Free Sound

Free Sounds, not songs or music. You need a free sound to spice up a powerpoint effect ? You need a sound track of a train or falling water ?

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

• browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
• up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• interact with fellow sound-artists!

They also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research. Many audio research institutions have trouble finding correctly licensed audio to test their algorithms. Many have voiced this problem, but so far there hasn’t been a solution.

http://www.freesound.org/index.php

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Free Audio Book

** Valid until the 16th of March 2010 **

To receive your FREE digital audio download of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, read by Michael York, visit the site below.

Courtesy of Blackstone Audio.

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/free_digital.html

File Size approximate 75 Mb

Open Music Archive

Open Music Archive is a collaborative project, initiated by artists Eileen Simpson & Ben White, to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings. The archive is open for anyone to use and contribute to.

The Open Music Archive concerns itself with the public domain and creative works which are not owned by any one individual and are held in common by society as a whole.

Under copyright law, a music recording has two automatically assigned property rights: A musical composition has a property right and a recording has a separate and independent property right. These property rights are limited by term. In the UK, the term of copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is limited to the life of the author plus 70 years, while the term of copyright in a sound recording is limited to 50 years from the date of recording. The archive attempts to gather recordings and information about recordings whose proprietary interests have expired and make them accessible to a wider public.

http://www.openmusicarchive.org/

Books Should be Free

BooksShouldBeFree makes the world’s public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way.

Free

All audio books on BooksShouldBeFree.com are in the public domain. This means that no one holds a copy right on these books and therefore anyone including BooksShouldBeFree.com is free to distribute them. Enjoy these free audio books and use the share button on BooksShouldBeFree.com to tell your friends about all these great public domain audio books.

Source
Books that have entered the public domain are digitized and recorded by volunteers that coordinate themselves through a variety of websites. The majority of public domain books, however, are digitized by Gutenberg.org and recorded by Librivox.org. BooksShouldBeFree draws on these public domain sources to deliver free audio books to you in an engaging and fun way. Enjoy the browsing experience on our website and be sure to bookmark us and return when you’re ready for you’re next audio book!

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/

Puniz free music search engine

There are many websites  that offer you free music, the problem is  finding the song you want. Puniz is about to change that by offering over 500 million audio tracks  all of them are free and legal to download.

You can listen to the song on the website or download it as FLV, MP4 or 3GP.

http://www.puniz.com/