Community content driven sites are having very good days indeed. The LostAudio initiative however, sees some problems with this in regard to music; in particular sample pools and so on. There is a need for quality (both formats and actual content).
That is why we feature iBeat.org here. It is big, and getting bigger - but [...]

We finally got around to Soundsnap. A community upload site that has all kind of audio; be it soundscaping effects, loops, shots and other crap. Soundsnap use their own license, but it’s pretty amazing that everything is (more or less) public domain.
It really is a very big library, so it fits the LostAudio concept pretty [...]

It’s a shame that only the big guns get publicity. Take the hype about Radioheads latest release; only the shitty format was free, and more along that road: extras on the ‘real’ deal disc.
Pax Cecilia made a more noteworthy contribution to the ‘free music’-movement back in April when they released their new album.
Just give them [...]

The Social Music Site Imeem is the first of its kind to have signed a deal with all the four majors. Taking ad-supported music to another level (up/down, good/bad?).
We’ll be watching how this progresses, and listening to over five million songs. Almost as much as iTunes.
Although we couldn’t find anything on their website to confirm [...]