Free Music Archive
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·January 12, 2025subpar
spencerflem
Thanks so much for what you did here! I love that site so much, because yes it had good music! And playlists and curators. I remember exactly where I was when I found out it would be shutting down.
Agreed it's all lead gen but they haven't ruined it too much yet at least and its still on
lovegrenoble
In the past, I used this one too: https://musopen.org/
dualogy
Some months ago I gathered a sizable, mighty fine offline music collection from https://netlabels.org/electronic-music/ and https://files.scene.org/browse/music/ — plenty of "duds" in both too, but that's just called subjective taste preferences and personal collection curation =)
Over2Chars
They got some rockin' tunes there. +1
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Seawolf/Seawolf__Sex_Demo...
nadermx
That delivers on demonic sounding
mmmnnn
Very nice indeed
mmmnnn
Is this in any way connected to the archive.org netlabel branch?
spencerflem
I believe theyre mirrored there now. Browsing and discovery is much nicer on FMA in my opinion
I worked on the FMA back in the early days when it was still run out of the WFMU office.
There's some really killer stuff buried in there alongside some solid netlabel output from the teens. It was very actively curated in the beginning but it quickly became hard to find the good stuff and after a couple years of emphasis on promoting royalty-free music for film it kind of drifted away from its original mantra of "It's not just free music; it's good music".
Honestly kind of bummed with where the project landed, presumably sold for peanuts to a for-profit so they can use it for lead gen.