eLibrary - Open Ebooks Directory - includes most of the ebooks sold on the internet. Free for addition of one’s own ebooks.

The SongMix Method: How to Write a Hit Rock Song in 1 Hour - This is my own songwriting eBook.

Since I offer my music royalty free for podcasters under the creative commons, I have become interested in the world of podsafe music. Here are the best sources of information I have run into for podcast news:

Podcasting News
The latest in the world of podcasting. Outstanding videos and articles.
http://www.podcastingnews.com

Digital Podcast
Updates and commentary about podcasting in the media.
http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews

Podcasting Tools Blog
Cutting edge technology focused podcasting information
http://www.podcasting-tools.com/blog.htm

Corante - Podcasting News and Developments Blog
Insightful and detailed blogging about the podcasting industry
http://podcasting.corante.com

Let me know if you have any suggestions for this directory. Also, sign up to get my music by email that you can use in your podcasts without a hassle!

Peace,

Dan-O

Here are some of the blogs I check out regularly for new music. Subscribe to a few of these sites and my own free music by email service and you will never have to go look for new music for your iPod!

Moshable
Featured artists, editor picks and free music news
http://blog.moshable.com

Sixeyes: MP3 Blog by Alan Williamson
A constant stream of stunning pictures and free MP3s
http://sixeyes.blogspot.com

Fingertips Music
Personal picks of heart-felt, well-crafted MP3 downloads
http://fingertipsmusic.blogspot.com

3Hive: Sharing the Sharing
When a record label or artist put up free MP3s, these guys share them.
http://www.3hive.com

Mudsugar
Extensive artist interviews and download-able songs.
http://www.mudsugar.com/category/mp3-blog/

We All Want Someone
Will Oliver posts fresh cutting edge indie music.
http://www.weallwantsomeone.org

Red Ferret
A huge list of free, legal music sources from a super cool tech blog
http://www.redferret.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

I always keep my eye out for new music blogs for this directory so go ahead and contact me to let me know about yours.

Enjoy! Dan-O

Stonewashed
Great directory of public domain, copyright free and creative commons music.
http://stonewashed.net/free-music.html

Incompetech.com
Tons of royalty free tracks categorized by genre and feel
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

AudioMicro.com
Sound Effects for use in creative audio-visual projects including YouTube videos, Powerpoint presentations, TV, film, websites, and animations.
http://www.audiomicro.com/sound-effects

freeSFX
Download free sound effects or join to upload and share. Fantastic user friendly fun site that I recommend and use.
http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Just Free Stuff
Tons of freebie CDs and music updated daily.
http://justfreestuff.com

Stock Footage And Stock Video Backgrounds
Royalty free library of stock footage for radio, multimedia and video.
http://www.alunablue.com

90’s Cafe
Site specializing in 90’s music, games, videos and trivia.
http://www.90scafe.com

West Side Story Tickets
A Broadway entertainment web site with reviews on every musical and play plus great tips for locating West Side Story tickets on the net.
http://www.reedstickets.net/west-side-story-tickets.html

Also check out…

Bloghub.com
top20free
coolfreebielinks
royalty-free-music-clips.com
musicbakery.com

Main Music Blog - This is where I post my latest creative commons royalty free stock music that I eventually add to my home page. Subscribe by email to get these updates!

Artist Interviews - Interviews of artists with links to their Websites and CDs. You can submit material to me for this blog. If I like the music I’ll send you interview questions.

Instrumental Music - The latest instrumental only MP3 tracks of mine that you can use as background music for YouTube videos, song tracks or whatever.

Guitar Blog - My primary instrument is guitar and sometimes I have something to say about that.

Music Technology Blog - My thoughts on the online music industry, Website tips, iPod and music player how-to, putting songs on facebook and myspace, ebay product reviews and anything else that combines music and tech.

International Blog - Translations of selected blog posts into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Danish, Ducth, French, German and Italian.

Product Reviews - Fact of the matter reports on CDs, music software and any other cool products that I think are worth letting people know about.

I license all the music on my home page under the creative commons music license as an MP3 download library.  I want to share the music and this makes it legal for podsafe  royalty free use on YouTube, in games and other multimedia.  I have also come across some incredible sources of free open source music. I’ve started this directory of resources to highlight my favorites.

Just remember that the composers still own the copyright to their media.  They are only licensing the music to the public using the contract provided by the creative commons organization so they don’t have to create their own. The creative commons project  is just one kind of open source “copyleft” license - there is also the GPL, GNU, BSD licenses (also used for free software). This is very different from Public Domain music where their is no actual owner of the copyright.

There are different types of creative commons licenses - some allow commercial use for your business (like mine) but others are noncommercial. You need to make sure you read carefully to avoid any problems. The “sharealike” feature of some of the licenses require that any work you create also be licensed under the creative commons.

Incompetech.com

A large library of legal and free royalty free music that you can search for and browse very easily. Kevin MacLeod has an FAQ section on his site that explains the attribution licensing. Also includes a very inexpensive “on hold” option for corporate use.

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Josh Woodward - Free Creative Commons Music

A huge assortment of impeccably organized songs, one of the best singer songwriters with free music online.

http://www.joshwoodward.com/music

Jamendo.com

Listen and download songs from hundred of artists and publish your music too. Also get background and instrumental stock music for commercial use through their PRO program.

http://www.jamendo.com

Magnatune

A revolutionary record company that provides a non commercial licensing  option for the releases put out by their recording artists.

http://www.magnatune.com

Creative Common Music Content Directory

The definitive listing of music in the creative commons. Features all kinds of ambient, classical, jazz, rock and electronic artists.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Category:Content_Directory

CCMixter

This site focuses on samples that you can use music mixer software  to mashup and mix online for free. Producers looking for copyright cleared loops will love this site.

http://ccmixter.org

Internet Archive Open Source Audio

Artists have to choose a creative commons license to upload to this section. You can download all the tracks here in a variety of audio file formats.

http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio

Creative Commons Search

Search all the creative commons content curators for stock music, sound effects and audio. There are tons of great places to find loops and samples in this search engine too.

http://search.creativecommons.org
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators

Sign up for my free music by email service for updates to this list.

Peace and enjoy!

Dan-O

Incompetech.com
Tons of royalty free tracks categorized by genre and feel
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

OnlineBizDirectory.com
They have a nice listing of sources for background music for businesses
http://www.onlinebizdirectory.com/music/free_background_music_code.html

Lcd Enterprises
Royalty-free music tracks for marketing purposes
http://www.lcdenterprises.com