Mix2r.fm
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Type of application / System Requirements
Mix2r.fm is a web application. To make actively use of the site and contribute, one needs to have audio equipment to save music to MP3 format.
Purpose
Mix2r.fm is a web site offering musicicians the possibility to exchange music fragments to cooperate in composing new songs that could be used commercially as well. One musician publishes the soundtrack of an idea for a new song. This needn't be a complete song, merely an idea of what it should look like. Together with the soundtrack he/she anounces the required instruments that should complete the song. now other musicians can submit their contribution. Once accepted, the development moves to the next instrument until it is considered finished.
What it does
It offers a platform for musicians to learn about the partially written songs by other musicians to be able to help and cooperate in making the final song.
How can it be used for creation of OERs
The site is meant to be for musicians, but could be 'abused' for other sound related educational materials such as language modules for speaking or listening or music classes at school or academies of music.
How can it be used for consumption of OERs
The soundtracks are categorised by album, artist, stage they are in, genre, some key terms, the license and the title and year. It is possible to search in any of these dimensions. One could argue that storing educational material here is providing a way to retrieve musical educational material, but that seems to far-fetched. There are enough suitable repository solutions around to do that job.
How can it be used for reuse of OERs
The reuse of soundtracks is the strong point of this site. Partially or completed soundtracks/songs could be used as a starting point, but the reuse is restricted to musical educational material only of course.
License support
The site supports various licenses including, Copyright, Creative Commons, public Domain. Most of the current soundtracks are published with plain Copyright and the use of it is paid for by commercial institutions. You are no allowed to upload any samples without explicitly giving it at license. They adopted the Creative Commons licensing and offer the following variants:
- Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
- Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
- Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)
- Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)
- Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)
- Attribution (by)
- Sampling
- Sampling Plus
- Non-commercial Sampling Plus
- Public Domain
Strange enough, browsing on license gave the following oversight of uploaded soundtracks:
- 13 (1)
- All Rights Reserved (329)
- ASCAP (4)
- contact artist for details (1)
- Creative Commons: by (3)
- Creative Commons: by-nc (5)
- Creative Commons: by-nc-sa (3)
- Creative Commons: sampling+ (4)
- free to lisen to. (1)
- Public Domain - I don't care, do what you want :-) (92)
- SOCAN (14)
So there seems to be some freedom in how to state the license.
Standards / Compatibility
Uploaded samples are in MPS-format which can be read by most multi-media players. At the site they state that the user may experience some rendering problems when he is not using one of the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox (version 1.5 and higher), Flock (0.7+), Safari (2.0+), a Gecko based browser. Internet Explorer is not officially supported.
How to use it
First one needs to become a member of the site. After being logged in, you can comment and add posts to the site or upload your soundtracks.
The site does not provide mixing software itself. It should be you that creates music by recording it or mix existing samples with your computer. After you should convert the sound file to an mps-format which can be done by a number of OS-software tools. (See for example: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/DJ_MIXING -also for non-Apple users). When you upload the sample to the site, you provide some information about the song and give it a license chosen out of a set of options.
Depending on the licenses of the other uploaded material you could download it, edit it and use it or mix it with your samples using the software on your computer. Of course you could upload the new soundtrack again and anounce it in one of the forums.
Links / examples / Who is using it
Most users are dj's and individual musicians or workers in the field of radio and television. They exchange ideas, soundtracks and comment on eachothers work. The site offers various forums from specific musical subjects (for example Software forums like http://mix2r.fm/node/180 -related to mixing), to cooperation (http://mix2r.fm/forums/wanted) and advertisements (e.g. http://mix2r.fm/forum/1242).
Sandbox
Go to the site: http://www.mix2r.fm.
Comments / Discussion
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