Free songs
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Frets on Fire format songs
We haven't had time to get any on this page yet. If you have suggestions on what to include, especially if it also contains drums and vocals, please let us know! (it needs to be freely usable)
There are some guitar-only songs at Frets on Fire website.
UltraStar format songs
Extract the ZIP files to /usr/local/share/games/ultrastar or ~/.ultrastar on UNIX systems and to the game folder on Windows.
The songs here are only repackaged by the Performous project. The packages contain license files listing the authors of the materials used and in many cases also of the Ultrastar conversion.
The libre package contains songs with very permissive licenses.
- Free Software Song by Thor
- On the run by Joshua Morin
Download ZIP (5 MB)
The restricted package contains songs that use more restrictive licenses not permitting modifications and/or commercial use.
- I 18 by Dead Smiling Pirates
- Northern Star by Steven Dunston
- Space Invaders by Pornophonique
Download ZIP (10 MB)
Jonathan Coulton collection, licensed CC by-nc-sa.
- A Talk with George
- Better
- Big Bad World One
- Chiron Beta Prime (with video)
- Code Monkey (with video)
- Creepy Doll (with video)
- Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance
- First of May
- Flickr (with video)
- Furry Old Lobster
- I Crush Everything
- I Feel Fantastic
- I'm Your Moon
- Ikea
- Monkey Shines
- Mr. Fancy Pants
- My Beige Bear
- Not About You
- Re: Your Brains
- Shop Vac
- Skullcrusher Mountain
- That Spells DNA
- The Future Soon
- When You Go
Download ZIP (240 MB)
Shearer collection, licensed CC by-nc-sa.
- 69 (with karaoke)
- Can't stop it (with karaoke)
- In My Hand
- Man Song (with karaoke)
- Stay with me (with karaoke)
Download ZIP (50 MB)
More songs?
Performous comes with a tool named ss_extract that can be used for extracting your SingStar DVDs.
Additionally, you may search Google for good songs in UltraStar or FoF formats.