DarkBasic Music Library
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 11:39
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Royalty free music from the DarkBasic game creating software.
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ACTION AND ADVENTURE:
- Author: Pix
- Year: 2000
- License: CC-BY-4.0+ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
FANTASY AND HEAVY:
- License: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)
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DarkBasic Music.zip 454.5 Kb [236 download(s)]
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Does Pix have a website?
If these are CC-BY, you will need to indicate in the description or copyright/attribution area who people should be giving credit to.
Please do not use a graphic for the first preview image of an audio asset (it's fine as the 2nd preview file, though). It prevents people from listening to the music preview from search and main pages.
Pix only has an email, but it seems long gone. We are talking like 25 years ago, 90s era.
He only required attribution though, so the CC-BY license won't create any conflict.
The reason why I put the logo first was on purpose, as I think it's more functional to be able to distinguish the media visually than to be able to play it directly while searching. Specially when we are talking about a hole collection, and the preview only showcases one single song among many.
I also considered uploading every song individually, so they could be previewed individually. But the media is on midi format and there's a bug on my audio conversion software, ffmpeg, which lead to many corrupt conversions. So I have only uploaded the preview of a single one, and left the rest of files as midi.
That's good, but if pix is long ago incommunicado, where are you getting the music from? There needs to be a clear indication from the source these are legally sharable in this way. I'm sure they are, but I need to verify where they are coming from.
I understand that reasoning, but I disagree. Would it also be more functional to be able to distinguish graphical art by providing a sound file for people to hear my voice describing the artwork? The darkbasic logo is not descriptive of music at all, not to mention less descriptive than an actual song would be. The darkbasic logo is also unrelated to the songs, so (although previews are not what is being shared) using a trademarked logo to showcase music not created nor owned by TGC itself is misleading. Otherwise, every preview image on this entire site should be the DarkBasic logo since everything on this site can be used in DarkBasic.
Please use an audio file as the first preview file.
=== MUSIC LICENSING ===
The DarkBasic CD-ROM cover says:
Inside the music folder there is a text file that says:
=== DARKBASIC LOGO ===
Using copyrighted images as thumbnails is a copyright exception. The trademark is still legal as the content is not different from what the trademark owner has published, and explicitly waived rights on.
Additionally all the DarkBasic contents and software have been made open source, under the MIT license, as seen on GitHub.
=== SUPERVISION ===
For efficiency you should not double check other people's work except for compliance with the law or prove of failure. Cause that's what cooperation is about, relying that other's will come up with the solution and decitions without looking at them all the time.
The law doesn't require you to check all the work summited to this site, but to take down it in a reasonable amount of time after request. The rest that you are doing, as my project manager teacher said, is waste.
If something else needs supervision it means the system is not good enough. If you really don't want graphic previews on audio files you are better standarising that by making the website unable to do so, than managing all the summisions. Aka don't manage the people, manage the system.
Otherwise we will find ourselves having this kind of discussions for each irrelevant decition that any other user makes. That's the relevant part of this discussion, not if I leave the ugly DarkBasic logo who nobody cares about.
I was just watching this talk.
Thank you for the information about the music content. That is exactly what was needed.
I agree the system should be managed, not the users. Unfortunately that is not currently feasible. Since we have a shortage of momentum for improving such features, I was asking the users to help out in the meantime. In order to keep a consistent archive of assets, I ask users to use an audio file for audio submissions until we can implement the features that enforce it automatically.
I was not saying the use of a trademarked logo was ILLEGAL, i was saying it is MISLEADING. it doesn't tell anyone anything about this submission. I am ASKING you to use the site-standard of audio-previews for audio-submissions. If you prefer I start ENFORCING that sort of thing without asking, I can oblige.
I am checking other peoples submission for compliance with licenses. You have provided the information that shows this is legally sharable in this manner. We rely on the good will of all users here, so I can fairly safely assume people do not outright lie about the licensing. However, people misunderstanding the licensing terms of some assets is a COMMON OCCURANCE that requires our frequent supervision.
Don't worry, I was just trolling you :P
Have a nice day.