Replacing the proprietary music with open source
Hi folks,
I was browsing the music in our git repo, and I noticed that it's all CC BY-NC-SA licensed, which is a non-free and non-open licence. That seems a bit strange given we are otherwise committed to free and open licensing.
OpenGameArt has quite an extensive collection of music. I'm not sure what kind of thing you're after - how close to the "Gameboy sound" to you want to remain?
There are a few collections of JRPG/8-bit compositions that could be good:
http://opengameart.org/content/jrpg-collection
http://opengameart.org/content/jrpg-collection-2
http://opengameart.org/content/generic- … soundtrack
Or if we're accepting stuff that's a bit further afield, this battle track sounds great:
http://opengameart.org/content/rpg-batt … ncounter-0 (he has a whole bunch of music under CC BY, but it looks like he has some quite specific requests for how he's credited: http://www.matthewpablo.com/services )
And this one seems pretty good:
http://opengameart.org/content/boss-battle-theme
EDIT: And there's often a music folder in the Superpowers asset packs: https://github.com/sparklinlabs/superpowers-asset-packs
Last edited by Sanglorian (17 Apr 2016 10:29)
By ShadowApex 19 Apr 2016 01:03
Lead Developer · 374 commentsThere's some pretty good tracks in these music packs. I completely agree that we should move towards removing any CC BY-NC-SA content. I was thinking of also trying to contact the artists for the existing music to see if they'd be willing to release it under CC BY-SA. If they're unwilling to do so, we should remove those tracks from the project.
By josepharaoh99 19 Apr 2016 18:13
Champion · 295 commentsHere's a good battle track: http://opengameart.org/content/red-doors-v20
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By josepharaoh99 4 May 2016 22:25
Champion · 295 commentsI was wondering, is there any way we could make it so that you can set the music for a battle or encounter in the db file? It would be cool if different regions and battles could have different sound tracks.
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By tamashihoshi 5 May 2016 15:54
Champion · 261 commentsI was wondering, is there any way we could make it so that you can set the music for a battle or encounter in the db file? It would be cool if different regions and battles could have different sound tracks.
sounds good to me 
this would open a few new possibilities:
- since every campaign has their own db, different campaigns could have different soundtracks
- we could change the battle soundtrack by events
- - example for this is what joseph already said: different region, different battle theme
- - a different campaign might change the battle theme once the story advanced, some jrpgs do that
But somewhere fixed (maybe the current position; res/music) should be a fall-back-soundtrack, in case something bad happens (aka can't load the file), like in the translations (no chinese translation? okay, get the english one instead)
Im gonna put a "enhancement" issue on github
Edit: Can't put a label there myself haha 
here's the issue: https://github.com/Tuxemon/Tuxemon/issues/124
feel free to comment if I misunderstood something; also feel free to edit the issue name if you find better words to describe the idea
thank you! 
Last edited by tamashihoshi (5 May 2016 16:09)
By josepharaoh99 7 May 2016 20:00
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By josepharaoh99 15 Jul 2016 21:45
Champion · 295 commentshttp://opengameart.org/art-search-advan … ollection=
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By Sanglorian 20 Jul 2016 01:30
Champion · 550 commentsThis topic has now been raised as a GitHub issue, with IBPX pin-pointing the proprietary assets: https://github.com/Tuxemon/Tuxemon/issues/173
By Sanglorian 21 Jul 2016 09:05
Champion · 550 commentsAnd here I've made a start at identifying music that we could use, and where in the game it could fit:
http://tuxemon.referata.com/wiki/Music_Library
Please add to it - either new tracks we could use, or new thoughts on how we could use existing tracks.
By josepharaoh99 28 Sep 2016 16:36
Champion · 295 commentsThis site lets you randomly generate CC0 music tracks - but most don't sound very good; I just thought you guys might be able to use it somehow.
http://www.abundant-music.com/
Enjoy, it's pretty cool!
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By tamashihoshi 22 Jan 2017 14:25
Champion · 261 commentsAnd here I've made a start at identifying music that we could use, and where in the game it could fit:
http://tuxemon.referata.com/wiki/Music_Library
Please add to it - either new tracks we could use, or new thoughts on how we could use existing tracks.
new link: https://wiki.tuxemon.org/index.php?title=Music_Library
By josepharaoh99 8 Mar 2017 15:55
Champion · 295 commentsPossible Tuxemon song? http://opengameart.org/content/summer-sunday
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By tamashihoshi 9 Mar 2017 09:01
Champion · 261 commentsPossible Tuxemon song? http://opengameart.org/content/summer-sunday
I can imagine this track in some kind of shop... it sounds like a track you could use for a little minigame probably
By Sanglorian 17 Apr 2016 10:02
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