Leif Madsen wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jim Van Meggelen<[email protected]> wrote:
I guess what we need is some sort of community-based repository of
suitably-licensed music (i.e. CC). Perhaps one could create download lists
that could be shared, and then when people are doing their asterisk install,
they just specify the playlist they want or something like that. Would
sourceforge host something like that? Does anybody really want to attract
the attention of the music industry tyrants? I would imagine that policing
something like that to ensure copyright adherence might prove more trouble
than it's worth.
Discuss?
Why not just let the opsound.org people do it? That's the place where
the original files were found and are being distributed from anyways.
Just find the appropriately licensed music, and away you go.
I think the only thing you'd really need to do is perhaps create a
page on a website somewhere (voip-info.org, or the like) that is just
a list of recommended, license acceptable music for Asterisk (or any
other system), and then grab them yourself. You'd not be exposing
yourself to a whole lot legality wise, since that is the opsound.org
peoples problem.
The trick is just listening to a bunch of music that would fit into a
narrowband codec, doesn't have any major volume changes, and is
instrumental only. That's really where the work lies.
http://www.opsound.org: "Opsound is a gift economy in action, an
experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians
and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool
using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are
invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine."
The thing is that much (most?) of the music on opsound is not at all
suitable for MOH. (Personally, most of it is not suitable for anything,
unless you've just dropped acid and are looking for a bad trip, but I
digress).
As you noted, MOH has some technical limitations (in the sense that it
has to sound halfway decent within the bandwidth of a DS0, but it also
has to be somewhat non-controvertial . . . i.e. elevator music.
Certainly the opsound resource handles the licensing requirement, but it
doesn't handle the suitability requirement.
Jim
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