DS4OERS/Audiographic/Fade music



In this section, you will look for an openly-licensed music track, suitable for an introduction to a voice recording, and practise how to fade in and fade out the track using Audacity.

Where to find openly licensed music
As you know, most music will be copyrighted as 'all rights reserved'. This means you cannot copy an audio track of your favorite musician(s) to include in a teaching resource. Therefore, you need to find music with an open copyright license. There are several websites of music with Creative Commons licences, which you can download and re-mix when making teaching resources. Here, we provide a few options:


 * The Free Music Archive (FMA) - Check that you are searching the Creative Commons collection of music on the FMA website. If you can't see a Creative Commons search filter, you are on the wrong section of the site.
 * digCCmixter is a website operated by ArtisTech Media, which hosts music with Creative Commons licences. Many tracks are licensed with the Non-Comercial (NC) restriction, which you need to consider when licensing your re-mixed work. If you would like to use tracks with more flexible licences, use the filter 'free for commercial use' when you are searching.
 * Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds, and is a good source for sound effects. Remember to click on the appropriate link under the 'licences filter' section on the 'search list' page.