free music

hockey97 · Post by **hockey97** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:11 pm

Hi I saw a post somewhere on here that gave a link to a open source website saying you could use the music in the game for commerical use, now just found out that that's not like true you can only distritubte it freely not in games but like you can share the music.

I need to find some music for my commerical games, however I am thinking to make my own music, isn't their any free open sorce software that can create music files??? I also hear that .mp3 you need to pay royalties is that correct???

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:20 am

There is a good one you can get for free called Rebirth. Search for the correct website that allows you download the ISO and use it. You must name the cd that you burn the ISO on correctly or it will refuse to start, and there are some other minor issues. But I used It waaaay back in the day to make music for my game and I made like 3 unique songs in 5 minutes, its really fun messing around with it.

Please note Rebirth was once commercial software but it was discontinued and the company released it for free, so now you can use it for whatever. It can produce techno-sounding songs mostly, and the quality of these can vary I guess depending on your skill.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:46 am

what is the music type formed by this software? midi? wav? etc.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:12 am

Most usable music is released under cc licenses.
You can try creativecommons.org, archive.org's 'opensource audio' collection, and 'media of the day' on wikimedia commons is a nice collection.
If it's for a free project you may find people over on www.modplug.com who'll make you some computer-generated music for the fun of it.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:16 am

Virion wrote:what is the music type formed by this software? midi? wav? etc.

Cant remember, I think I exported to WAV, it never mattered really because I would convert it to OGG.

Another program to try it MODPlug (Or MODTracker or something cant remember), and it can produce the low size XM files that IrrKlang can play.

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:59 pm

http://www.incompetech.com has some very good CC-licensed music.

3ddev · Post by **3ddev** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:59 am

This is a good website

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
There are 30,000+ sounds, all licensed under CC.

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:17 am

You should try audacity its an open-source program that allows you to manipulate mp3 files.