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There are a number of free sound effects resources of public domain or free content sound recordings appropriate for Wikipedia use available online, and as well as in other contexts. All files should be converted to ogg , Wikipedia's patent-free format of choice.
Many music files at Wikimedia Commons are from old vinyl records and therefore contain noise. Theoretically, such a file can be used to create another file from which the noise has been filtered, using a process called record restoration. Here is an example using GoldWave software:
The Free Music Archive (FMA) is an online repository of royalty-free music, currently based in the Netherlands. [1] Established in 2009 by the East Orange, New Jersey community radio station WFMU and in cooperation with fellow stations KBOO and KEXP , it aims to provide music under Creative Commons licenses that can be freely downloaded and ...
Copy and paste into a text file and save it with m3u extension, then try loading with your favorite player (works with VLC media player, XMMS and AmaroK). Wget can also download all files in the playlist to a folder, using the flag -i to read the m3u file.
Some more current works are also available for free use through public works projects such as Internet Archive. This and similar projects aim to preserve and make readily available thousands of public domain music files, many of which have been recorded by projects dedicated to recording music for public use. Music on the Creative Commons:
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Most of the files listed here only contain audio, but some contain both audio and video. You can alphabetically sort each column by clicking on the small box at the top of that column (click again to sort reverse-alphabetically). If you have trouble playing ogg files, see Wikipedia:Media help (Ogg).