How to Find Open Licensed Music Using Creative Commons’ Search

You want a place that can make it as convenient as possible to find licensed, public domain and/or open access music, but you don’t know where to find it, or you don’t know where to find it. Don’t know how to search for each component music page? If that’s your need, then this article might be for you.

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Introducing Creative Commons’ search and music sites

Go to the Creative Commons search page ^{[1] X Research Sources} , at http://creativecommons.org/ .

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Introducing the Creative Commons search page. The Creative Commons search page has the following main components: (1) The search field; (2) Creative Commons license selection boxes; (3) The boxes represent component search pages; (4) A written note on the limited functionality of the Creative Commons search site. There is also a search footer.

Search field. Where the phrase Enter Your Search Query is located: Type in your search query. You will type the term you want to search here.

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Creative Commons license selection boxes: I want something that I can… : I want something that I can… This is where you choose Creative Commons licenses under different terms for your music files by selecting and/or deselecting the corresponding check boxes. There are 2 check boxes:
- Check box 1: use for commercial purposes : use for commercial purposes. If you want the search results to be available for commercial use, check this box, otherwise, uncheck it.
- Check box 2: modify, adapt or build upon : modify, customize or build upon it. If you want the search results to be modifiable, customizable, and build a derivative work from the original file, then check this box, otherwise uncheck it.
Search using : Search using. This is where you will conduct a search by term and by license selection in the sections above by selecting one of the boxes with the small rectangle below. You’ll see those little rectangles arranged in rows and columns. Each of these boxes has a link to the search command of each respective website on the Internet, which likely contains the songs and/or music you want to search for. Using the Creative Commons search page, you can obtain songs and/or music that are openly and/or publicly licensed from the following websites: SoundCloud, Jamendo and ccMixter.

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A written note about the limited functionality of the Creative Commons search site. The document states the following: “Please note that search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine , but instead provides convenient access to search services provided by other organizations. CC does not control the results returned Do not assume that the results displayed in this portal have a CC license You should always check that the work is actually under a CC license by link , you should contact the copyright holder directly, or try to contact the site where you found the content”.

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Search characteristics of related music sites

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SoundCloud. SoundCloud supports both English and Vietnamese when conducting searches directly on its site, without going through the Creative Commons search page. However, when conducting a search in Vietnamese for songs and music on SoundCloud via the Creative Commons search page, there is no support. However, when the results are presented in the SoundCloud page, you can easily go to the search engine of the SoundCloud site itself.

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Jamendo. Currently, Jamendo only supports searching in English . When searching for music on Jamendo through the Creative Commons search page, you won’t be able to use other types of search such as searching through the selection and filtering of Jamendo’s built-in genres such as genres . , instruments , or playlists , and you’ll see the results displayed in Jamendo’s search engine. Once inside the Jamendo site, though, you’ll easily be able to navigate its selection and filtering features.

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digccMixter. Just like Jamendo, currently digccMixter only supports searching in English . When searching for music on ccMixter and/or digccMixter via the Creative Commons search page, you will not be able to use other search types such as searching through the selection and filtering of the built-in categories in digccMixter such as categories. music ( genre ), instrument ( instrument ) and musical style ( style ); you also can’t use digccMixter’s tag search, and you’ll see results presented in ccMixter, not in digccMixter. However, once inside the ccMixter site, you can easily go to digccMixter and/or potentially implement a search using digccMixter’s or some other search engine.

Search for music on related sites via the Creative Commons search page

General principles. Assume that when searching, the license check boxes on the Creative Commons search page are selected. This ensures that the results you want the found file to return are: (1) usable for commercial purposes; and (2) modify, adapt or build upon the original content. However, as the Creative Commons search page’s limited functionality text is outlined above, you should always conduct a license check of each selected file before you download it to ensure compliance. full terms and conditions of use under the granted open license, no copyright infringement.

Search on SoundCloud via Creative Commons. The phrases used as examples to search in the article Find original music/audio on SoundCloud will be reused here, both in English and Vietnamese.

Search in English . Search term: Sound of silence .

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Results returned when searching in English .

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Search in Vietnamese . Search terms: Autumn Hanoi .

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Results returned when searching in Vietnamese . You will see search results returned that have nothing to do with the search term you just entered. However, you can get the desired results if from this results page you go to SoundCloud’s homepage, by clicking on SoundCloud’s icon located in the top left corner of the screen. Then, from the home screen of SoundCloud, you can search in Vietnamese just fine, just like what is mentioned in the article Find original music/audio on SoundCloud.

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Search on Jamendo via Creative Commons. The phrase used as an example to search in the article Find songs and music licensed open on Jamendo will be reused here.

Search. Search term: Beautiful Day . Type this term into the search field of the Creative Commons search page and then click on the Jamendo box to conduct your search.
Results returned. The results are identical when you do with Jamendo’s search engine, where it says Search for Indepentdent music , as outlined in the article Find songs and licensed music open on Jamendo.

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Search ccMixter/digccMixter via Creative Commons. The word used as an example to search in Find Music Openly Licensed on ccMixter will be reused here.

Search. Search term: Snow .
Results returned. With the search results screen returned as shown, it is not easy right now to find the article you want if you have not studied carefully about ccMixter. You might want to go to a place that is familiar and easier for you, the digccMixter site. You have 2 ways:

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- To get to the digccMixter page, you should first return to the ccMixter homepage by clicking the Home button – the first button on the toolbar of the ccMixter page or clicking the ccMixter icon in the top left corner of the page. screen.
  
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  - From the ccMixter homepage, click the dic.cc.Mixter link to go to the digccMixter homepage.
  - At the home page of ccMixter you will probably be impressed by the information from ccMixter: this is a community repository of 45,000 musicians around the world that you can freely use, as long as you acknowledge the credit for they are okay .
    
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- On the results page, click Search Find content . A small screen will open. Right in the first search field, which is the search field of digccMixter, where it says Look for music , retype the search word Snow and then press the Dig key. You will be surprised to find that the results are identical to searching for the word Snow using digccMixter’s search engine as outlined in the article Finding licensed music open on ccMixter. At this small screen, you can also use other search engines, such as ccMixter and Google.
  
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Check the license and download using the selected file. This is an integral part of your search to use openly licensed content. With the content just mentioned above with 3 music pages, you can easily see that checking the license and downloading using the selected music file is exactly the same as outlined in the separate articles for each that page, namely:

With SoundCloud: same as in Find original music/audio on SoundCloud.
With Jamendo: same as in Find songs and licensed music open on Jamendo.
With ccMixter: same as in Find licensed music open on ccMixter. This is a great site for you to use as a template for checking the license, usage rights and attribution of the work after downloading the file.

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Introducing Creative Commons’ search and music sites

Search characteristics of related music sites

Search for music on related sites via the Creative Commons search page

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