eldavojohn's Journal: Massive Music Contributions to Wikimedia Commons?

I have a large music collection. Well over two thousand compact discs. I have also over the course of many years transferred them to a high quality lossy MP3 format--with impeccable ID3 tags. Given the recent news of Wikipedia preparing for a media explosion, I thought about exercising the fair use doctrine and may begin to methodically upload Ogg snippets of these songs--30 seconds or 10% of the length of the song (which ever is shorter). I could probably divide my music into three groups:

1. Music with historical significance--a very small group.
2. Music with no historical significance although popular enough that people may be interested in hearing samples of it--a very very large group.
3. Music with not only no historical significance but so obscure that no one could ever possibly care--a decent amount (example Zager & Evans' In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) album).

So before I start this endeavor and devote a lot of time to it, I have been trying to find the answers to a few questions you might be able to help me with: Will all of this be torn down? Just from group 3? Just from group 2? Does Wikipedia care about the "encyclopedic worthiness" of audio files? If there is a page for a fairly obscure album like Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team, would they like clips from every track on the album or just the popular tracks like "Huddle Formation?"

All the info I can find out there seems to be photo oriented and revolve around license disputes when marked for deletion ... but I feel I am sitting on a large volume of music and could spend some extra time carefully documenting it on Wikipedia for everyone's benefit. Is it worth my time or will I face an epic culling (like the anima/manga fans) in the future once word gets out about it?

never thought about it before

[yagu]

But, I'm intrigued. So, it's perfectly legal? I too have about 1500 cds ripped in varying quality levels, though I'm back ripping everything to high vbr. I don't know this would have caught my eye except for the obscure "In the year...", lol. That's even available in any format?

I like your idea, and if you do, provide the link -- I will add some too (We have about 50 different recordings of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, amazingly subtle and some not-so-subtle differences in how classical manifests -- my

Wait & See What Happens to Hunky Dory Oggs

[eldavojohn]

Thanks for your reply Yagu. I have strictly followed the guidelines of fair use as defined by Wikipedia (same username [wikipedia.org] as here) and the U.S. Government for ever track of the album Hunky Dory [wikipedia.org]:

1. Changes [wikipedia.org]
2. Oh! You Pretty Things [wikipedia.org]
3. Eight Line Poem [wikipedia.org]
4. Life on Mars? [wikipedia.org]
5. Kooks [wikipedia.org]
6. Quicksand [wikipedia.org]
7. Fill Your Heart [wikipedia.org]
8. Andy Warhol [wikipedia.org]
9. Song for Bob Dylan [wikipedia.org]
10. Queen Bitch [wikipedia.org]
11. The Bewlay Brothers [wikipedia.org]

I guess the most I can do is keep my eye on those (see if they get torn down before devoting serious time to coding up a program that does it almost