Stepping Stones

 Around the Corner v2 – MGuhlin.net – Around the Corner v2 – MGuhlin.net

I’m going to use these free audio resources some day. I found the link via MGuhlin.net, a very profilic edublogger.  

In anticipation of a podcasting workshop I’ll be doing with folks in my school district, I’ve been looking for free, royalty-free music to share with others. Of course, folks will have to credit the creators and I’ve made plans for that, but I started the journey thinking, “There’s just not that much free music out there people can use.” Boy, was I wrong!

While you can find my list of free, royalty-free music in my wiki, the following are some new ones I stumbled upon tonight.

• Incompetech.com – Keven MacLeod has done a great job of making his music available for free use (provided you credit him, of course). Over a gig of music is available for use in podcasts and other projects (e.g. digital storytelling).
• Play It Free 100 Sample Sounds - Another collection of music that is safe to use provided you credit your source.
• BeatSuite.com – A much smaller collection, but nice collection nonetheless.
• Acid Planet’s 8-Pack – An 8pack project is an ACID file that includes eight loops arranged into a song. 8pack projects illustrate how a song is constructed in ACID software, and how easy it is to combine loops from various Sony Sound Series™ Loops and Samples libraries. Every week there will be a new 8pack project to download — for Free!

I’ll be showing folks how to incorporate this into their podcasts and digital stories over the next few months…any suggestions on what else might be useful to share?