[ale] "podsafe" and free music

[Scott Castaline]

On 05/04/2010 09:47 PM, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I don't know how many of you are already aware of this (I really
> wasn't) but while scrounging around for music for my podcasts I
> stumbled into the world of "podsafe" music.  The licensing is all over
> the map, from GPL inspired licenses, to Creative Commons, to public
> domain.  But there's a lot of excellent stuff out there in every
> imaginable genre.  The first site I've fully explored is the Free
> Music Archive at http://freemusicarchive.org/     Among other things I
> found 1930s Samba, 87 fantastic folk songs performed by Roger McGuinn
> as part of the Folk Den project (his rendition of "Follow the Drinking
> Gourd" sends chills up my spine), ideologically committed free music
> rock musicians like The Taxpayers, lots of electronic music, etc.
>
> If any of you haven't explored this resource (which is directly
> related to the Free Software philosophy) you should.
>
> Larry
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Thanks for the tip, looks like a pretty good Jazz & Blues collection but 
a little short on the Classical genre. That's just an initial browse, I 
do plan to return for a more in-depth look and sampling.