A collection of public-domain/CC0-1.0-licensed music from scattered locations across the internet. Currently it contains roughly ~7000 songs and is ~40gb worth of music.
I created this repository out of a personal need for a music dataset to aid my own procedural music analysis/research and published it to give back to the community.
This repo aims to provide a valuable dataset for individuals interested or curious in procedural music analysis. Such as academic researchers, digital signal proccessor experimentors and ethical audio driven ML efforts.
I hope it can enable more musical-researchers to be able to share meaningful results without infringing on the copyrights of musicians.
- The music is grouped based on the websites that originally aggregated the audio.
- No normalization to the data has been applied, so expect various file formats, sample rates, etc...
- Dataset aims to only include music in the dataset not misc audio files. Still, there are likely some files that do not resemble "music" at least in the traditional sense.
- Files over 100mb are omitted in order to avoid GIT-LFS headaches.
This repo was created to aid the community, so if you're able to use it in your research/practice then we'd love to hear about it. Please let us know in the community-showcase GitHub thread!
All contributions are welcome. Repo is open to publish/promote deriviative research and/or add additional public-domain music. Either PR something in and/or start a GitHub Issue related to your contribution.
If you believe any music has been incorrectly categorized as public-domain/CC0-1.0-licensed by this repo, please let us know by creating a GitHub Issue and we will remove it as swiftly as possible.
Big shoutout to all the sites that aggregate CC0-1.0-Licensed/Public-Domain music:
Many of these sites accept donations, offer paid music catalog services, and or continue to aggregate and host new CC0-1.0-Licensed/Public-Domain music. Strongly encourage anyone interested to check them out.
If you're interested to see the fruits of my own procedural music analysis endeavors checkout Sound-Safari !
I created Sound Safari so anybody can enjoy concert-grade 3D music visuals through their own computer.