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Do you know the Free Music Archive project?
It is an online repository dedicated to hosting free music. Its goal is to provide an archive of music under Creative Commons licenses that can be downloaded freely and used in other derivative works.
The works published on FMA are reviewed and are high-quality pieces. Additionally, the site allows users who download these works to make donations to their composers.
FMA History
This project began in 2009 thanks to WFMU, KBOO and KEXP, independent radio stations in the USA. In 2016 the catalog exceeded 100,000 songs, but in 2018 the closure of the project was announced due to lack of funding.
The existing files were moved to TheInternetArchive. It is a digital library that advocates for universal access to knowledge on the Internet and hosts all kinds of files: copies of web pages, software, music, books…
In 2019 the FMA was acquired by TribeofNoise, a social network for musicians who share their music. This network added FMA’s songs to its own free catalog, thus expanding the collection.
In May 2020 Tribe of Noise received the “Grant for the Web” award for developing new online business models based on open standards and for supporting access to free music.
Tribe of Noise PRO
Some songs published on Tribe of Noise are limited to the Non Commercial scope. This means they can be used freely as long as it is not a paid project. To be able to use these songs for that purpose, TribeOfNoise also maintains a store that allows artists to set a price for the use of their songs in commercial audiovisual projects.
