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Music samples can be a valuable addition to articles about bands, musical styles, and genres. They can illustrate the particular instruments or musical elements in a song in a way that a text description cannot. However, usage of such samples needs to comply with copyright law and Wikipedia's guidelines. The limitations on length and quality described here apply only to fair use samples; free content samples are not subject to these limitations.
{{Listen | type = music | filename = Home at Last.ogg | title = "Home at Last" | description = 30-second sample | pos = }}
|misc=
using {{
Audio sample}}. Since the title and artist are already included in the infobox, an additional header or description is not needed. The code is (see the
template documentation for more options):{{Infobox song ... | misc = {{subst:Audio sample | type = single | file = Mamie Smith, Crazy Blues.ogg }} }}
10% of the length of the original song up to a maximum of 30 seconds, as explained above. The table below explains how this works in practice:
Original (m:ss) | 0:30 | 1:00 | 1:30 | 2:00 | 2:30 | 3:00 | 3:30 | 4:00 | 4:30 | 5:00 and longer |
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Maximum length of sample (m:ss) | 0:03 | 0:06 | 0:09 | 0:12 | 0:15 | 0:18 | 0:21 | 0:24 | 0:27 | 0:30 |