For context, the MusicBrainz community has a thread for music downloads that are legally free, including name-your-price that’s common on Bandcamp. I thought it’d be an interesting community that’d work here and across Lemmy. This sorta thing helped me discover new music I wouldn’t have heard otherwise.
I’m posting some free/NYP releases I know of right now, but if you know of any music that fits the bill, do post it there! I’m going to give it time before I post it to New Communities on lemmy.world.
Yeah, the whole thing with that MusicBrainz post is that the license doesn’t seem to matter. I’ll look at changing the title if it confuses people. If anything, I need to stress that linking pirated content is against the rules and I think I did alright there.
As for the spam issue, I’m not overly bothered if people want to post multiple albums if it’s all from different artists, but I know if it’s one particular artist being posted that can be seen as spammy and/or self-promoting. I think more people are likely to post releases outright rather than group them into genres (especially when some artists mix genres up), judging by other music communities here and on the fediverse, and I don’t want to punish people for being overly enthusiastic.
In any case, I’ll see where the wind goes with this and make changes if necessary.
EDIT: changed the title to just “Free/Name Your Price Music”. I think that encapsulates it fine alongside the “no piracy” rule.