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Music for Tome4

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This page contains slight spoilers in regards to the different zones that exists in the game. You've been warned.

Rules

  • Must be legal (CC typically)
  • May not include words (though vocal sounds - orc impressions etc. are fine)
  • Can't be too edgy (ie. lots of people with varying taste in music must be able to listen to it) aka avant garde.
    • Heavy jazz, death metal, drum solos - hopefully you get my drift
  • Recording must be of acceptable quality (this vague, but it should be nice to listen to, not just "hmph ok")
  • Add more...?

Issues

So far I've got a few songs that I like enough, that are CC (attribution, non-derivative, non-commercial). I am unsure if non-derivative would include

  • Changing it to .ogg -legaly clearly ok.
  • Changing it to mono, and or smaller bitrates (for smaller file sizes) -legally clearly ok.
  • Using it in a game - not sure if the artists really envision this for their music initially, as some artists might not know of "free games" -dubious legallity but often overlooked for non-commertial prodjects
  • Renaming it (though surely it would!) -legally an apsolute no, and if this is done you will probably be asked to remove it from the game as with my comment on point 3.

This is a preliminary table for the tracks. I'd like a list of 2-3 tracks per zone (Different Zones can use the same music), but don't know if that functionality will be in the engine soon. Generally the music is of a high quality, and a lot will be suited to Tome, however that game may not want other projects to use their music (understandably so).

For consistency in the sound/music quality, I would recommend that we restrict the number of artists generally.

Song Zones Artist Permission Link Notes
Anne_van_Schothorst_-_Passed_Tense Bree Anne van Schothorst Yes http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anne_van_Schothorst
Lee_Maddeford_-_01_-_Ouverture Trollshaws, Bree Lee Maddeford Yes http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Maddeford/ The song has a bit of background noise where audience members coughed and sneezed :-(
Azog's March II Amon Sul Jice No http://roguebard.eptalys.net/song.php?id=8
gillicuddy_-_04_-_instrumental_2 Wilderness (if I can) Gillicuddy No http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/
A Lomos del Dragon Blanco (To Loins of the White Dragon) DG put it in Moria Carlos Saura Yes http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/carlosaura Rock maybe for Battles

--- tome4 user:reenen

Other notes

http://javacrpg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/javacrpg/jClassicRPG/media/audio/ a fairly big collection. Everything in this collection is CC of some sort. That game is a 3d RPG and is therefore only somewhat related to Tome. In terms of sounds I am pretty sure we can get most of it without making the games sound the same.