Fedora project: making a website with Fedora-Free music

[Nicu Buculei]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Today I've been discussing with upstream replacing some non free music 
> with Free music, as I need to do often when packaging games (in this 
> case Lost Labyrinth).
> 
> I have been thinking recently about how convenient it would be to have a 
> website where one can browse all known Fedora-Free (as in can be part of 
> Fedora under the content Licensing guidelines) music.

Free enough that we can use also as a soundtrack for screencasts (that's 
is, if someone likes game music as sountreact for his screencast)

> The Fedora package collection already contains quite a bit of music. 
> Some put in -music packages because its in ogg format and thus quite 
> large, but also quite a few modtracker and midi format songs, which are 
> much smaller and sometimes even hidden away in .wad / .dat files.
> 
> Thus I want to make a website with:
> -Unpacked (as in click on it and it will play) versions of all music 
> included
>  in Fedora, sorted by format and license, and preferably also 
> catogorised by
>  genre.
> 
> -Links to other website which contain all Free, or clearly marked partially
>  Free music.
> 
>  The first website which comes mind for the links section is the excellent:
>  http://www.dogmazic.net/

Or like this http://ccmixter.org/ ?


> So now I need 2 things
> 1) Free (as in gratis) hosting, with lots of diskspace and potentially 
> quite
>    some bandwidth usage.
> 
> 2) Someone to help me build the website, the last time I've done php / 
> html was
>    in 1999 :)

How about using ccHost, the software used by (and made for) ccMixter? 
The problem is that it may need support for some file formats

> 1) Is the most urgent without 2 I'll just create a few folders like this:
> 
>    mod
>    mod/GPL
>    mod/CC-xx
>    mod/CC-Nd-xx
>    midi
>    midi/GPL
>    midi/CC-xx
>    midi/CC-Nd-xx
>    ogg
>    ogg/GPL
>    ogg/CC-xx
>    ogg/CC-Nd-xx
>    links
>    links/index.html (good old html-1.0 list with links)
> 
> And use apache's dir listing as html generator :) I know this is crude, 
> but it still beats not having any central place to checkout all the 
> music already in Fedora at all by a long shot.


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