Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Free music taskforce

Purpose

 * Obtaining permission for freely licensed, full-length free music
 * Uploading it and correctly tagging it
 * Making sure it gets added to related articles (song, composer, performer, etc); making sure those articles exist if notable
 * Cataloging it (catalog history)
 * Identifying, developing, and/or assisting in the development of tools to do the above.
 * Having a central place to discuss issues related to the above.
 * Getting people interested in doing this as well

Members

 * Raul654
 * Anythingyouwant
 * Ravedave
 * Antandrus (expertise: classical, Middle Ages to present day)
 * Graham87
 * Tarabaltazar
 * &mdash; La Pianista  ♫ ♪ (classical piano)
 * Violarulez
 * Ftiercel (electronic music)

Tools

 * Creating
 * Audiotool - A DAW in a cloud. Allows the user to find CC-BY-SA tracks, explore a track's source projects, modify it, publish it and download it.
 * Editing
 * Audacity - Open source music editor. May require LAME.
 * Splitting recordings into separate tracks with Audacity
 * Converting
 * Dbpoweramp
 * Uploading
 * Commonist
 * Searching Wikimedia Commons
 * Ogg Files
 * Other Files
 * Downloading
 * Downthemall - Firefox extension
 * Wget - Unix command line utility

Templates

 * Listen - use music