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Am Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:22:22 -0300

schrieb Marcel Bonnet :
> Hi, there.

quoted text
> What about these samples

> http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/make_music/samples/librar...

> ?

>

> "License: You are free to use these samples as you wish, including

> releasing them as part of a commercial work. The only restriction is

> they must not be sold or made available 'as is' (i.e. as sampler or as

> a sampler instrument)."

>

> I'm just starting with them. I think any linuxsampler user probably

> knows, but what do you guys think of these samples? Does it meet the

> tech and license requirements? My first bad impression is about the

> sample format, they are all distributed as MP3 - I would consider a

> non compressed format instead.

Hello Marcel,
the License means that you can't compile the samples in soundfont,

gigastudio, kontakt etc. file. I guess the intention of the license is

to prevent .sfz as well, although technically you could argue that the

samples are still "as is" in sfz format, there is only a meta file

added. But the same is true if you compress them and include metadata,

so the case could be made for any sampler format.
Also "they must not be sold" is understandable but still essentially an

open source breaker. 
But since they are mp3 it does not matter at all. A compressed format

is absolutely out of question as basis for a sampled instrument. It is

pure audio nonsense.
So all in all these are 'freeware' mp3. I would rather buy something in

the price region of 100 euro.
Nils

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