[HN Gopher] CC Hound: A curated library of free music for conten...
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CC Hound: A curated library of free music for content creators
Author : aabergkvist
Score : 179 points
Date : 2020-10-11 14:07 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (cchound.com)
| l00sed wrote:
| Lovely! Was thinking about making some stuff in Fruity loops for
| tutorial video background tracks, but this is much easier! I'd
| recommend swapping the hamburger menu on the left with a
| filter/funnel icon, the double hamburger is a little weird.
| imhoguy wrote:
| Make sure it is not too loud! Also matching music taste of
| audience is not an easy task. Most of the time I prefer only
| tutor's voice and/or natural workplace ambient sounds
| (including keyboard). This one makes it to perfection
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsDtlB4OSrs
| philipkiely wrote:
| This is great! It would be nice to be able to filter by license
| type. By my understanding, there are many projects where music
| licensed under CC BY-SA would not be usable.
| Minor49er wrote:
| Seconding this. I love the simplicity of the site, but the way
| the links work for the results, I would expect that clicking on
| the license type would filter by that license rather than bring
| me to the license itself. It would be cool if those links acted
| like a filter, but were also accompanied by something like a
| question mark or info button that would bring me to the
| definition in case I needed it.
| aabergkvist wrote:
| Good idea. Gonna invest some time into writing an index of
| the different types instead and then having those on the
| category page for it. Was afraid of legal ramifications, if
| something was incorrect, hence the link to the CC site.
| tomerbd wrote:
| I see license is CC do you have an example in your website how do
| we must provide attribution?
| merricksb wrote:
| For the curious, this appeared as a Show HN in 2018:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884979
| edw wrote:
| When I think of royalty free music for "creators," my mind
| instantly goes to the sort of cliched, bombastic audio that is
| used to score "epic b-roll" that serves no purpose in so many
| YouTube videos. The world needs less of this, not more.
| Hoasi wrote:
| It's great as long as creators do this voluntarily. In an ideal
| world, you'd hire someone to compose music for a particular
| project.
| jancborchardt wrote:
| Really nice! Since Unsplash is mentioned in the About page, I
| hope it doesn't go the same way with a strange non-CC license at
| some point. (Also ideally sticking to just Attribution and Share-
| Alike as now. :)
|
| I tried out the feed at /feed but it seems to be empty - is there
| a way to get updates of new additions?
| aabergkvist wrote:
| I missed that, what did they go from the do whatever the f*ck
| you want license?
|
| But, no. The licensing will be up to the artist, always.
|
| What would be the preferred way? Twitter? RSS?
| ironmagma wrote:
| The WTF license is an antipattern really. All it does is push
| away anyone who has serious use cases for your work, because
| of the risk that nothing in that license will (likely) hold
| up in court. MIT carries basically the exact same provisions
| as WTF, so just use that.
| jancborchardt wrote:
| It used to be CC0 on Unsplash but some time ago they moved
| from that to a custom license with some special restrictons,
| which makes it impossible to use in other Creative Commons
| work: https://unsplash.com/license This also happened to a
| lot of other similar photo sites unfortunately.
|
| Preferred for the feed would be RSS I'd say, but maybe
| Twitter is good on top for promo.
|
| Thank you!
| wodenokoto wrote:
| While I too think everything would be easier if everything was
| CC-something licensed, I actually think the Unsplash license is
| extremely fair.
|
| The license is basically: use pictures for anything you want
| except for a competing service. You decide if you want to
| attribute source.
|
| For stock photos on websites and in PPP and reports, I can
| hardly imagine anything better than Unsplash.
| royosherove wrote:
| Where is the music being sourced from? As a music creator, how
| can I add my music to be visible here? Another question (which
| contradicts my first question): Aren't you helping to create
| another "race to the bottom" where free music always wins over
| paid?
| dylz wrote:
| People that won't pay for music licencing probably won't be
| paying for music licencing in the first place..
| fermienrico wrote:
| What does HN think of free content like audio clips and samples,
| stock photography, etc? I think it is different than free
| software where folks are contributing as a community and can
| sometimes thrive as a business by providing support. IMO free
| "hard" content such as this is destroying a lot of small content
| creators that used to earn a living but are now forced to abandon
| their professions. I fear it will create a bimodal distribution -
| top notch large houses (Getty Images, for e.g.) and free
| distribution sites (Unsplash) and nothing in the middle.
|
| I fear a society that is used to free stuff all the time.
| dbuder wrote:
| There is too much duplication, some of those people are now
| free to create something of more value and those who have been
| held back from creating content are now are to make it more
| easily and with less friction.
| ISL wrote:
| "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50
| in late fees at the public library." -- Will Hunting
|
| And yet people still pay to go to college. It is okay.
|
| Yes, the distribution of CC and GPL work products at negligible
| cost _does_ cut into the revenue streams of existing business
| models. However, there will always be something to do for
| others that is both engaging and adds value to their lives.
| Furthermore, Mozart hasn 't put modern music out of business.
|
| Unsplash absolutely threatens existing business models, but
| Unsplash and derivatives aren't going away. One must adapt.
| Furthermore, CC-BY-SA licensing of high-quality content may
| even threaten the likes of Getty in the long run. GNU/Linux/BSD
| clearly compete with once-dominant Microsoft.
|
| The alternative is to force people to charge for something of
| value they wish to give, gratis, to the world.
| cblconfederate wrote:
| > The alternative is to force people to charge for something
| of value they wish to give, gratis, to the world.
|
| I 'm not sure they wish, as much as they have no option to
| monetize it or do something with it
| ISL wrote:
| One can always offer a service at any price; the trick is
| finding an agreeable buyer.
|
| I would love to sell my photographs at a price that would
| allow me to do so full-time. Alas, there are a lot of other
| people who would love to do the same. Some of them are
| willing to charge less than presently seems sustainable for
| me to do. We adapt, or we're bummed out all the time.
| cblconfederate wrote:
| often there is just no mechanism to facilitate the trade,
| or someone else is hoarding all the benefits.
|
| Videos created with this music will end up in social
| media sites which will make tons of money out of them.
| Yet the creators have no way to earn a part of it.
| ISL wrote:
| If you are not okay with that outcome as a creator, don't
| use that license :).
|
| If you use their work and wish to compensate creators for
| their work, the very nature of CC-BY means that you know
| who to contact.
| cblconfederate wrote:
| I agree. This is no longer the 2000s, big tech should start
| paying people for providing content. It's too hard to make
| people pay for digital copies however (and it doesn;t make sens
| for ephemeral content) , so creators should start demanding pay
| for their free content that appears on social /subscription /
| ad-supported sites.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Good indeed, however I wish there was a way to filter out by
| source. Of all tunes I tried so far, all those coming from
| Reddit, mostly if not all from the same author/uploader, sound
| like the worst possible elevator music with added drums played on
| a 20 years old General Midi presets-only expander. Definitely
| some interesting stuff among the others, however.
| aabergkvist wrote:
| Fixing this!
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