Buying a prexisting track will generally be out of the question if you want CC-BY-SA since it essentially means that track is liberated from restrictions and may no longer be a source of income for the artist. I'm still not sure how Doc got that deal. Maybe the artist is counting on the obscurity of our copy to save him from losing income on it.

Speaking of which, we could totally use this same track over and over from now on, but I think people will complain if we don't change it up.

Custom music is expensive. As expensive or potentially much more than an entire video. Probably shouldn't expect it to be made with FOSS, either as its super rare to find musicians using FOSS solutions over proprietary ones.

That said, I'm fine with using a track decided on or made for the project in future videos provided the quality and mood fits. I'm just not qualified to do make such a track myself. :)







On Sat, May 7, 2022, 22:27 <doctormo@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2022-05-07 at 16:24 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> I'm not sure of the cost/trade-offs, but it seems the other answer is
> that we could pay someone for a track or to make the music that we
> want. Perhaps not for minor releases, but for 2.0 pay for a song that
> we could use in all the videos for the 2.x series. Might be
> interesting for continuity, not sure if that'd restrict the potential
> for the release videos too much though.

If it's a long enough composition, there might be different motif in
the track that can be picked out for different releases. A proper
musian would be able to say for sure how useful that might be.

Martin,