Any sites to download pubic domain music (Apple sucks)

afterburnt

One of you fine folks turned me on to some free hi Rez clasical stuff. Any hook know more sites? Calasscal older jazz etc?

tonyb

Free ? I don't know of any free sites. You might find a song here or there for free, but a whole site I'm not aware of.

Nightfall

Google gave me this, not sure if you've seen it or not.

https://www.lifewire.com/public-domain-music-3482603

tonyb

I don't think any of those sites are hi-rez though. Browse through them, see if you like anything. Some have CD quality at least. Don't know about the risk factor either, corrupted files, viruses.

Nightfall

I missed the high res part. Music in the public domain is so old, though, recorded with primitive equipment by today's standards, I doubt there'd be a difference between 320kbps MP3 and even the highest DSD bitrate. Maybe I'm off base though.

Nightfall

In the United States, any musical works published before 1922, in addition to those voluntarily placed in public domain, exist in the public domain. In most other countries, music generally enters the public domain in a period of fifty to seventy-five years after the composer's death.

mhardy6647

Music in the public domain doesn't necessarily equate to performances in the public domain.

Having said that:

1) Howzabout archive.org?

2) There's a fellow on AK and Hifihaven who is a pretty serious recordist of serious music -- he's shared some of his efforts on those sites, e.g.,
http://www.hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/poway-symphony-orchestra-live-2017-03-19-for-d-l-streaming.2560/

tonyp063

https://archive.org/details/musopen

MuseOpen project.
I posted about this in an earlier thread.

I participated in a kickstarter in 2010 to record & release, for free, a goodly assortment of classical music through the Museopen project.
Some very good versions of pieces & composers mentioned above

I point you to https://archive.org/details/musopen-lossless-dvd

A good assortment done by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
And it's free

dkfreebird

Not sure I would want to listen to music from that area.

pubic domain music

mhardy6647

Good point -- although it's perhaps even more interesting that it's a Vanilla-friendly term

tonyb

Don't we all hear that music in elevators ?

afterburnt

tonyp063 wrote: »

https://archive.org/details/musopen

MuseOpen project.
I posted about this in an earlier thread.

I participated in a kickstarter in 2010 to record & release, for free, a goodly assortment of classical music through the Museopen project.
Some very good versions of pieces & composers mentioned above

I point you to https://archive.org/details/musopen-lossless-dvd

A good assortment done by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
And it's free

Thanks Tony, this is why I asked. That site had hi bitrate downloads. I was just wondering if there are others out there. It was mentioned on another board that pre 62 jazz is public domain. I would have asked but they don't talk to me there.

Nightfall

Musopen plus six others are in the link I posted.