Sound library update

[ericrosenbaum]

Resolves

Resolves #2710
Resolves #2844

Proposed Changes

• Add 14 new music loops to the sound library! They are all under either public domain, CC0, or CC-BY licenses, and come from freesound.org, freemusicarchive.org, incompetech.com and archive.org.

Air Hockey Saloon - Chris Zabriskie
Bossa Bossa - Kevin MacLeod
Darkling - Kevin MacLeod
Energetic Dance - furbyguy
Dance Sitar - Nina Paley
Variations 1 - Kimiko Ishizaka
Inhale - Peter Rudenko
Melodic Dubstep - Orboscope
Mystery - tyops
Nephilim - Flick3r
Pookatori and Friends - Kevin MacLeod
Reggae Nine Mile - Nueve Millas
Send for the Horses - Kevin MacLeod
Trapped - Kellee Maize

• Also, remove the "-b" from "Odesong-b"
• Rename the sounds "Connect" and "Disconnect" to "Start" and "Finish"

Reason for Changes

This is progress toward a more diverse and higher quality library of music loops for people to use in their projects (and a couple of minor fixes).

[Mr-Dave2]

Do you take requests?

I think the "Happy Birthday to you" song could stand to be upgraded. It's just called "Birthday" in the Scratch 3.0 sound library (and is called Birthday Bells in Scratch 2.0)

The song and Lyrics are now in the public domain. You can list it (or a replacement) by its full title which would make it easier to find.

This song is very popular and I believe that beginners would use it for inspiration in their projects if a better version was included with Scratch. (The current version is just the melody play on xylophone).

I have a "test case" here of a version that I arranged and played on my keyboard. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/248022990/

Also, and I'm sure you know this, but not all recordings will be in the public domain. Individual arrangements and performances might still be copyrighted.

[towerofnix]

Dance Sitar - Nina Paley

The character in that album is called "Sita", not "Sitar". ("Sita Flute Raag", "Sita Returns to Mother Earth", etc.) So should this Scratch song b e called "Dance Sita", not "Dance Sitar"?

Nephilim - Flick3r

This is actually called Nephlim ("phlim" vs. "philim") on freesound.org.

[ericrosenbaum]

@towerofnix ah! true, it's from a movie called "Sita Sings the Blues," but I called the track that because it features the sound of a stringed instrument called a sitar.

[towerofnix]

@ericrosenbaum today I learned! - I never heard of the sitar before. Neat :)

[thisandagain]

This code review is a little weird because we had lots of conversation IRL, but here you go! :-P

[ericrosenbaum]

@Mr-Dave2 thanks for the suggestion! I agree that our happy birthday could use an upgrade :)