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freebies

hi all,

please suggest urls where i can obtain *.flac music files requiring no license/copyrights, etc.

thanks

Re: freebies

Reply #1 –
Why *.flac, by the way? If it is for testing compression settings, then you "need to know" (or infer) what they encoded at. IME, Bandcamp uses the "-6" setting, and typically flac 1.3.x

"No license" meaning public domain, that is quite a restriction. Some are available, like https://archive.org/details/MusopenCollectionAsFlac
or a search:
https://archive.org/details/opensource_audio?tab=collection&query=collection%3A%22opensource_audio%22+AND+%22public+domain%22
Library of Congress uses WAV and not FLAC, but still: https://www.loc.gov/collections/ . Here are those old enough for copyrights to have expired: https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/?dates=1800/1924

But if other versions (check which applies!) of Creative Commons is good enough, there are many more:
https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,96018.0.html
https://designmodo.com/free-music-sounds/ , some of it is lossless.
https://ektoplazm.com/
https://kevinmacleod.bandcamp.com/album/complete-collection-creative-commons <-- not free of charge, but CC
This is free of charge and CC zero: https://kimikoishizaka.bandcamp.com/album/j-s-bach-open-goldberg-variations-bwv-988-piano

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Reply #3 –
@Porcus
Thanks for the links. I have obtained some songs from internet archive, all old stuff.

@jaybeee
I might try this link.

*.flac is high quality and compresses *.wav

cheers


 *.flac because it is the best.

*.flac is *.wav compressed

Quote from: Porcus on
Why *.flac, by the way? If it is for testing compression settings, then you "need to know" (or infer) what they encoded at. IME, Bandcamp uses the "-6" setting, and typically flac 1.3.x

"No license" meaning public domain, that is quite a restriction. Some are available, like https://archive.org/details/MusopenCollectionAsFlac
or a search:
https://archive.org/details/opensource_audio?tab=collection&query=collection%3A%22opensource_audio%22+AND+%22public+domain%22
Library of Congress uses WAV and not FLAC, but still: https://www.loc.gov/collections/ . Here are those old enough for copyrights to have expired: https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/?dates=1800/1924

But if other versions (check which applies!) of Creative Commons is good enough, there are many more:
https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,96018.0.html
https://designmodo.com/free-music-sounds/ , some of it is lossless.
https://ektoplazm.com/
https://kevinmacleod.bandcamp.com/album/complete-collection-creative-commons <-- not free of charge, but CC
This is free of charge and CC zero: https://kimikoishizaka.bandcamp.com/album/j-s-bach-open-goldberg-variations-bwv-988-piano

Re: freebies

Reply #6 –
If all you are interested in is uncompressed music to test with, then there's an enormous lot of free-of-charge stuff on Bandcamp. Also on Soundcloud - but you probably need to fire up your search engine, and the interesting thing is that artists sometimes then upload directly from their DAW. There are some floating-point PCM around, which cannot be compressed by FLAC (use WavPack).

Quote from: traja47 on
*.flac is *.wav compressed
Actually, it usually only compresses the audio and not the files - but that is usually what you want. The non-audio part of the .wav container is not that interesting, especially not if you ripped a CD (which isn't from a file in the first place).
The big difference is if you are dealing with audio editing software. Then use the format it supports.

Re: freebies

Reply #7 –
I am actually using a custom mande FLAC metadata editor and also using EAC for ripping CD.
I am interested in high qualigy *.flac, having high bit rate.

I can obtain *.flac from *.wav, albeit I prefer to obtain *.flac direct to save time.

thanks for your time and effort, appreciate.



Quote from: Porcus on
If all you are interested in is uncompressed music to test with, then there's an enormous lot of free-of-charge stuff on Bandcamp. Also on Soundcloud - but you probably need to fire up your search engine, and the interesting thing is that artists sometimes then upload directly from their DAW. There are some floating-point PCM around, which cannot be compressed by FLAC (use WavPack).

Quote from: traja47 on
*.flac is *.wav compressed
Actually, it usually only compresses the audio and not the files - but that is usually what you want. The non-audio part of the .wav container is not that interesting, especially not if you ripped a CD (which isn't from a file in the first place).
The big difference is if you are dealing with audio editing software. Then use the format it supports.

Re: freebies

Reply #8 –
Quote from: traja47 on
I can obtain *.flac from *.wav, albeit I prefer to obtain *.flac direct to save time.
Huh? How many files are you after, roughly speaking?

Wouldn't searching these FLAC files actually take longer?
The older the 'lossier' - meaning: my hearing & my music collection.
After all, I listen to the music, not the media it's on.

Re: freebies

Reply #9 –
currently I have around 12K *.flac songs

+ 5K will suffice
 

Re: freebies

Reply #10 –
Strange quest. Good luck.

Quote
I am interested in high qualigy *.flac, having high bit rate.
Just remember that, for lossless codecs, there is no better or worse sound quality - just higher or smaller compression ratios.

The older the 'lossier' - meaning: my hearing & my music collection.
After all, I listen to the music, not the media it's on.