Let me list some interesting projects for sharing and listening (open source, free) music
http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
http://dir.xiph.org/index.php
icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia.
http://somafm.com/
13 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco.
http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html
Enjoy free music without getting in trouble by downloading the legal MP3s many musicians provide as a way to promote themselves.
http://www.magnatune.com/
Listen to over 500 hand-picked complete albums. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. You'll get MP3s & WAVs, and no copy protection (DRM), ever.
http://cdbaby.com/
let's find you some great new music...
http://www.labelsound.com/index.pl/3816845230?about
labelsound is a music licensing community and interactive music library for independent record labels and artists. We help promote music to advertising agencies, film and TV companies, publishers and music libraries. We also help to promote the work of graphic designers, CD duplicators and other complementary services.
http://gnomoradio.org/index.php
Gnomoradio is a program that can find, fetch, share, and play music that is freely available for file sharing. Gnomoradio is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which permits modifications and distribution of the source code to the program. The current version runs on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems.
Let us know which one you find usefull! :)
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