finding music

Evdude on 2011/08/10 22:07

In the last few pyweeks, I've been unable to find music for the game I'm working on. Is there some database of free music somewhere that I keep missing? 

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hidas on 2011/08/10 22:44:

For Pyweek 12 I just got a soundtrack off this site:
http://www.mattmcfarland.com/

A web search resulted in:
http://www.danosongs.com/
http://www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music

And the Pygame resources page always has some good stuff:
http://pygame.org/wiki/resources

Hope this helps!

Evdude on 2011/08/10 23:17:

Wow, Thanks! 
I could never thing of a better way to word "music for video games" in google and always got a bunch of links to music games. This really helps! 

(I actually did look in the pygame resource page, but that didn't help much)

Tee on 2011/08/13 00:25:

I'm repeating myself by posting a link to a section of a page I just posted on the Resources post, but I think this is very, very relevant.

The Big List of Royalty Free Music and Sounds (Free Edition)

Cosmologicon on 2011/08/29 18:32:

I generally search ccMixter for "instrumental". It's kind of hit-or-miss (and a good number of them aren't really instrumental) but I just queue them up while I'm coding, and by the end of the week I have about 3 good ones.

Also, you should be able to steal from previous pyweek games. If a song was valid for one of them, it should be valid for your current game.

Also, if you want your own original compositions, someone wrote a python program called Autotracker-C that auto-generates music in ImpulseTracker format. It's surprisingly good. Supposedly you can swap out the samples so it's using different instruments, but I haven't figured out that part yet.
http://pubacc.wilcox-tech.com/~greaser/stuff/atrk-c-edit.py.txt

Cosmologicon on 2011/09/02 14:36:

Hey, the Autotracker-C link seems to be down. Here's a copy of it (I only made one small change to the last line, which allows you to specify an output file on the command line):
http://christophernight.net/stuff/atrk-c-edit.py
 
For reference, here's the original post where I got it from, in case he ever updates it:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/12/14/for-those-of-you-who-cant-make-music/

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/09 02:56:

That is the best program for game background music ever, i am definitely using this to fill the endless silence in my games, a great complement to sfxr

Hugoagogo on 2011/09/09 02:59:

Also all the music it generates seems to be similar to music from VVVVVV

gcewing on 2011/09/09 08:12:

Just been trying out Autotracker-C. It produces very impressive results!

Could do with more variety in the patterns it generates, though -- after half a dozen tunes or so, it all starts to sound the same. Variations in the timbre of its auto-generated samples would help a lot, too.

While we're on the subject of algorithmic music, here's a recording I made while playing around with Otomata:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/music/otomata/recording5.mp3

It was created by "playing" Otomata like an instrument, starting with a simple pattern and gradually adding blocks to make it more complicated.

I'm starting to get quite interested in algorithmic composition now, particularly the emergent-complexity variety as exemplified by Pulsate, Otomata, Newscool and the like. I can feel another project coming on...

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