OStatic

Sure the world of digital music is loaded with copyright sharks, DRM and other undesirables, but it's also increasingly teeming with cool, free open source tools and applications. Do you want to sync iPods and iPhones to any computer anywhere? How about playing Doom on your own customized OS for iPods or most other music players? Do you need customized music library management for multiple platforms, including Linux? Would you like to mix and record original music online with other musicians? How about a free, streaming radio application for your phone that will automate interesting playlists for you, and play while you use other apps? Here are eight great resources for doing all of this and more.

We've written several times about efforts in the music community to apply open source principles to music. For example, Radiohead open sourced a music video recently, resulting in many creative variations on the original video. Now, Bojam is making waves for its invitation to people everywhere to collaborate on mixing and recording original or popular music. Here's how it works.