Re: [Bug-freedink] MIDI Music Composition

[Sylvain]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 08:33:47PM +0100, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Oct 2011 18:05:55 you wrote:
> > A new song from your friend would be a valuable addition to FreeDink!
> ok Thanks. Would songs created using garageband be ok (thats the software my 
> friend uses). It says here that work created using garageband is your own, as 
> long as you don't distribute the samples separately. He exports the songs to 
> mp3, but i am able to convert them to ogg, so that wouldn't be a problem.

Since garageband is proprietary software, as well as its samples, this
makes it a suboptimal solution - compared so, e.g., your use of
RoseGarden where we have complete ability to edit the song technically
and legally.

However, this often happens in the free gaming scene (Wesnoth comes to
mind), so this would still be a valuable contribution.

Converting from MP3 to OGG will cause a decrease in quality.  If
possible try to get a .ogg directly, or a lossless format such as .wav
or .flac.  The quality drop won't be critical though, because the
conversion will happen only once.

-- 
Sylvain