American site Free Music Archive will close down later this month. The archive was founded in 2009 by New Jersey broadcaster's WFMU, and offered an interactive library of high quality, legal audio downloads, curated in collaboration with artists, radio stations, netlabels, venues, museums, music festivals and more.

However due to a funding shortage the FMA has announced it is set to close, perhaps as early as 9 November. “The future of the archive is uncertain,” they say, “but we have done everything we can to ensure that our files will not disappear from the web forever. The full audio collection will be backed up and available at archive.org/details/freemusicarchive (some of the collection is already there; feel free to go browse).”

They are also working in partnership with Archive-It to preserve a current copy of it's pages in the Wayback Machine, and later in 2019 audio will also be added to the Creative Commons project CC Search.

They have also suggested ways for users to help preserve the FMA, including a crowdsourced repository via webrecorder.io and saving URLs on Wayback's homepage.

Furthermore, the team want to hear from those able to help with web development, funding, nonprofit status, or general suggestions of ways to save the archive. More information can be found on their website.