Warning on the free music archive

• Aug 19, 2017 - 18:04

I feel a responsibility to warn all musicians about The Free Music Archive.

Its standards and ethics have gone down the toilet. A few months ago I made a professional application to have my music in there under creative commons. My music was varied and was much better in quality than a lot of the swearword driven rubbish that is in the Free Music Archive. The response was ridiculous; they said that they did not want electronic music. Right. Let's go to everyone's ipod collection right now and take out all your electronic music. Worse. I had also submitted orchestral music with piano and violin. They also did not want orchestral music. Yeah. Right. Let's see how music is in the world if we take out all electronic and orchestral music.

I can only conclude that the idiots who run the Free Music Archive are on drugs. The they said that I could reapply. Um. No. I do not wan to apply again. What if next time they have suddenly in their tea leaves decided that electronic and orchestral music exist again. But I submit something else and thye suddenly don';t want that. Basil Fawlty couldn't make up something sillier.

I just have to warn people that these clowns are not worthy of your time and effort. Don't bother submitting your music to the free music archive.


Comments

Is the site you mentioned http://freemusicarchive.org/ ?
Or any other site on same name ?

Genres listed on their top menus:: Blues, Classical, Country, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Hip-Hop, Instrumental, International, Jazz, Old-Time / Historic, Pop, Rock, Soul-RnB, Spoken.
I think it would be ridiculous to deny the style they listed on their sites. It's not understandable.

You should send a link to this article and let them respond here.
So we can understand why something went wrong.

Internet Archive!(archive.org) for all your existing analog music under Creative Commons licenses. Even for your .mscz files like this one https://archive.org/download/Zczero-SincerelyPowerful/More_True_Than_Tr…

Though the file format has not been added yet. OpenScore is anyway a pretty new development so I suppose it isn't very well known yet but I've opened a post about it on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/post/1086417/musescore-file-format-mscz-missing

In the event that nobody wants to host your music there are other solutions like self-hosting

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