Our music on other websites. - The OnClassical official blog.

As you may know, last January we put online a free album, the OnClassical collection, which includes our best recordings for each instrument (piano, violin, harpsichord, and choir...). Even if our full-quality catalogue (in .wav files - not the previews of course) is covered by the traditional copyright, this unique album has been totally covered by the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA here included the master-files in .wav format. This CD has also been printed in 1000 copies. You may request a copy of the CD at 8 euros (+ shipping) to us directly at:

ONCLASSICAL by A.Simonetto
c/o Via Ca'Petofi 13
36022 Cassola, Vicenza
ITALY - Europe

Ph. (00)39 339 3162931
Fax. (00)39 0424 533137

However since we have not already published the full tracks on the website we thought it would be nice to have the tracks in good mp3 quality (and .wav quality too) on some free sites and we choose Jamendo, Jamglue and last.fm. On Jamendo you may download our music at a very good quality (192 kbps min.) In our humble opinion, this is a very cool site where "artists allow anyone to download and share their music". The second site - Jamglue - is more recent (born in 2006) and is intended as a point of reference for whoever wants to mix (pop and disco) music. Maybe our classical music does not fit in so well here not fit in so well here, but we thought we'd give it a go. These two sites use Creative Commons in their business plan. Finally last.fm is a web radio that "tracks what you listen to, learns what you like, gives you personal top charts and new music to discover".

For last we remind you that you may put all our previews, without further permissions, on other free websites, P2Ps, webradios, personal page... just remember to quote us and the artists with a link to their page at onclassical.com.

Below: Francesco M. Geminiani- Allegro in F major; the file is a 192 kbps of c. 4 mbytes in size: it will takes some minutes to download.

http://download6.jamendo.com/download/track/146584/mp32/e00a92b984/Francesco%20M.%20Geminiani%3A%20Allegro%20in%20F%20major.mp3
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# 1

I am very pleased with what you are doing with cc classical music.

I ask your help with a question. I do almost all my listening on mp3 these days. I want to support the artist, too.

I want to buy the album by Pablo Riva. I will not need the wave files, but instead would like a zipped mp3 file of the pieces for easy unzipping and transmission to my mp3 player. I know that you offer mp3 downloads for free, but I want to pay you and the artist for the service. Perhaps I can give the right to the wave files to a friend.

Is there a way to download or get an e mail of high quality mp3s upon my purchase of the album? I know that mp3s are not nearly as good as wave files for a CD, but they are my main listening mode these days. I do not wish to merely download free mp3s, because I believe in supporting what you are doing.

Could you give me guidance on this? I hope I was sufficiently clear.

best, robert, who records as gurdonark
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By gurdonark (posted on 20/04/2008 @ 04:32:18)

# 2

Cet album est le fruit d’un label indépendant, “A new way to think about music” disent-ils. Cet album est donc un pot-pourri de ce qu’ils ont fait de mieux ces dernières années. Ils reprennent des morceaux tombés dans le domaine public, en font des enregistrements et distribuent ces derniers au plus grand nombre. Je vous invite à visiter leur site(en) pour plus de détails. La qualité des enregistrement est parfaite, les artistes ont du doigté, on oublie les notions de musique libre, commerciale, amateure et on se laisse porter par ces interprétations.
Je vous invite à télécharger immédiatement cet album et à le faire découvrir à vos proches.

By muziko.fr (posted on 18/08/2008 @ 15:59:19)