Reply To: Major Update for LinkedMusicians “Best Free Kontakt Instruments” List

[peter]

On galacov said

@peter Thank you for update so quickly!

I don’t want the credit here. But I try to check every couple of months.

My paranoid personality that regards sustainability to get plugins as importance is suitable for this task. XD

Thanks! This is a good example of how a community can work together to make a site better, as you just did in this thread.

The problem with any of these kinds of lists is that people create them and the linked libraries get pulled or change location and there’s no easy, proactive way for the list creator to be aware of that outside of clicking on everything on regular basis. I started the list in 2022, and the entries you identified were older ones, so it’s not a surprise that some went away or moved. I will develop a process for reviewing my two main lists. Maybe quarterly?

I imagine we’re not far off from AI being able to handle this chore, but I don’t have a subscription to the one service I know of that could probably do it. If anyone has an idea in that regard, please share it. My desire here is to have a great, up to date resource, where people can find really high quality free libraries and not have a list with a bunch of broken links (if you go through the first few pages of Google results for “free kontakt libraries” you’ll find a bunch of pages with broken links to libraries that were made a decade or more ago that are certainly not in the same league as the best available libraries. I don’t want to create a page with the same problem. I realize that if even 1% of the linked libraries disappear (on a list of nearly 200 libraries) it’s annoying to users, and I want people to have a very positive experience, so I welcome anyone who identifies broken links or has suggestions to automate this chore using AI.

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