You don't need a dime for this jukebox

[robkelk]

The Library of Congress has opened up its music collection online (well, at least part of the public domain collection is online), and wrapped a playlist function around the files. They're calling this service http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/]The National Jukebox.

Plenty of ragtime and some opera at the moment, but they're promising to add more music...

Edit: Oh, I love this site already. Under http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/genres]Genres:

Ethnic characterizations

This heading is used for works that incorporate ethnic or regional groups as subject matter. Text and music may involve characters and/or musical elements that reflect attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs associated with ethnic and regional groups at the time the selections were written and performed. These characterizations may utilize outmoded and offensive stereotypes of nationalities, religions, or races.

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This hints they're not going to "forget" to put something up just because it uses a word we find offensive nowadays.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sweno]

*claps* for the ethnic stuff.

Disney has been trying to "forget" a lot of war time/racist content it created, which is a shame.

We should treat these things as a learning experience, not hide them in a vault somewhere and pretend they don't exist.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[LynnInDenver]

This is what I've been respecting about Warner Brothers. They're not censoring the content just because it's inappropriate. They're merely providing a comment beforehand on the collections that it is what it is, and that you should be prepared for it.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor