Looking for some free to download, royalty free music

[Feek]

One of my tasks at work is looking after our telephone system. I just fixed our music-on-hold box and have decided that the CD we have is awful. In fact, it's worse than awful, it's almost down to the quality that local commercial radio stations play!

I'd like to put together a replacement CD for our music-on-hold but it needs to be:

• Free to download
• Royalty free
• Decent

Anyone know of any suitable download sources for music which meets these three requirements?

K.

 

[Le Samourai]

I found this site (linked from wiki) while looking into Ogg Vorbis.

http://www.jamendo.com/uk/

Not sure what the creative commons licence allows but could be a starting point.

 

[Feek]

I'll give it a look tonight (can't download torrents through the work firewall), thanks.

K.

 

[SourChipmunk]

Feek - it's worth a try. I'm not sure if you can get there without a subscription (or from the UK, for that matter), but Entertainment Weekly Magazine publishes their "Dowload This" in each issue. I've found some real good tunes from bands that are trying to get publicity that I wouldn't normally listen to.

http://www.ew.com/ew/package/0,12938,1055044_4_0_,00.html

Snoop around!

 

[Al Vallario]

You might want to check out the Creative Commons site which has links to sites containing CC-licenced content like Jamendo.

 

[HangTime]

I might be wrong here but I've got a feeling that you can probably use anything which is over 50 years old. Some Glenn Miller perhaps?