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Freesound Reaches 10,000 Files
Bram writes ""The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, -not songs-... released under the Creative Commons Sampling+ License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing and browsing these samples."
In less that 7 months we've grown to 30,000 users and today we finally reached the first goal of the project: we've collected over 10,000 samples, added by various people around the globe: only a slashdotting would be a suiting birthday cake. If you do visit Freesound, don't forget to have a look at the Geotagged Samples as they are well worth it."
This is one awesome resource if you can weed out the junk.
That's pretty cool, too bad I hadn't heard about it sooner!
Not quite the same as samples, but Winamp creator Justin Frankel made Ninjam which allows musicians to participate in a near real time jam session over the net. The Jam Farm on ninjam has plenty of tracks all under the creative commons license.
....seems to be Slashdotted to hell at the moment. What a great idea.
the days when I used to jump on the internet and download sound snippets to customise my desktop with (ie. have a different sound play when you minimise a window, close a window, open a window etc).
Good sound is important, I mean stuff like the default sounds on GAIM for example sound really awful, I'm sure there's a lot of stuff out there like that and a huge database of beeps means in all probability quite a few nice beeps to increase user sanity.
OK...gen-x-er here..
what? No Fart sounds?
How can I amuse myself?
Enjoy
But I know I'll often hear from people who just want to find a particular sound, whether it's for music, presentations, or whatever. Not just cheesy stuff, either, but actually worthwhile purposes. It's great to see that there's a group out there trying to provide a worthwhile sound catalog for everyone. After all, it's not like everyone has access to foley experts!
Holy *bleep*! Oh, but now the surver's *rooooo*k'd.
Ahem
Since when is having your servers raped by an oncoming hoard a suitable birthday present?
Its really an interesting concept and one at first blush seems really simple, and then you think about it, and realize that in our Draconian world its ahead of its time.
Its sure to be a great resource, and hopefully some high quality samples are there.
I haven't been able to peruse the site yet really, but I can think of a lot of uses for such a sound library as this.
This is really cool if not for the sheer esoteric value it posseses.
I don't think we have to worry about the sound of horseflies being copyrighted anytime soon , but hell it really wouldn't surprise me.
This is a great resource available to all, and I can't wait to listen to some wierd, new, interesting stuff.
Maybe some contributers have a parabolic antenna?
Maybe I_will_get_one meself!
this reminds me of "Sound of the Day".
archives go back to Dec 2004. (wrt to geotagged freesounds it wouldn't be much but that's still +~365...and it's interesting)
As a developer of audio for free/open source games, I totally go to freesound first. No squeaky doors in the immediate vicinity to make field recordings of--no problem! Somebody's already made their field recording available. It can be a great complement to your own recordings or commercial samples. I also love the clear licensing terms, unlike many other free audio content websites.
Cake. :P
This is NOT a mirror, but rather a clever plug for ebumsworld, MASKED as a mirror.
Do they have the sound of a tree falling in the forest when no one is there to hear it, yet?
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
the site seems to be collapsing... [insert adequate sound!]
Maybe we should use the Coral Cache of it:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu.nyud.net:8090/
...linux nor slackware? I'd expect to listen to a farting-while-configuring geek there?
I think they should record the sound of their servers crashing and add it to the site.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to cooperate with Wikimedia Commons, a "repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files"? The goals seem to overlap quite a lot...?
the sound of a burning server.
Is the site unenlightened, or am I?
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I mean stuff like the default sounds on GAIM for example sound really awful
But is the CC Sampling Plus license compatible with the GNU General Public License? The GPL requires that a work be made available for commercial or noncommercial distribution in the most editable form, called "source code". This "source code" would generally include a verbatim copy of the whole sample. The GNU Free Documentation License has similar restrictions, where the editable form is called a "transparent copy". The CC Sampling Plus license, on the other hand, requires all verbatim distribution to be non-commercial.
As a developer of audio for free/open source games, I totally go to freesound first.
Doesn't freesound's license prohibit use of samples in commercially distributed computer programs, including commercially distributed Free games? See my other comment.
It seems to me that the license under which these sounds are released could use some work - perhaps the creators should be given a choice in how their sounds are licensed? For example, I do a lot of sound design for community theater, where crediting 10-15 different online entities in the program is not always looked on with favor. I would be happy, personally, to release the sound effects that I have created under a license not requiring attribution (at least in some circumstances).
As the author of this comment mentions, the current (only) choice for a license could get in the way of including these sounds in free software projects as well. Maybe an option that allows more freedom in using the effects in commercial works would help alleviate this? Then the artists could choose for themselves how they wanted their work to be licensed.
CommonTunes a community media exchange for music and sound via bittorrent, ecommerce features also offered for bands to sell their stuff. DRM-free.
Ugh, someone borked my contact address.d =17
It's: http://www.iua.upf.edu/mtg/pages/contact/single?i
If media provided by sites like Freesound matter to you then please take a look at this. CC could really use our collective help right now, it appears that their non-profit status could be in jeopardy...
I am just curious. Is is Freesoundsample? Is there a reason other than it is not the purpose of the site?
Or are we being limited by our capacity for expressing ourselves in grunts again, and the word 'songs' scares the shit out of people. I may never know as the site is wanged.
And if they arenot having songs, why mention it? Why not mention that they are also not having live lemur strip cams?
I am just puzzled by the whole ---- OMG not songs ---- in the snippet.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
so come back and look at their graph of the number of people who signed up each day..... they're going to have to rescale the graph and put in a /. dot!
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I know there are lots of www.free.clip.arts.here.com sites, but are there any that works along the same mentality as this? Where the licensing is clear and any developer working on small projects needing icons and whatever else can easily grab what they need, at the same time knowing it's high quality stuff. Does deviantart count? I can't really tell what their policy is for re-use, and it seems more for large artistic creations.
http://openclipart.org/
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Is a great idea, we needed something like that! Congratulations and have fun ;)
> only a slashdotting would be a suiting birthday cake. .. you wish for.
The connection has timed out
The server at freesound.iua.upf.edu is taking too long to respond.
Oh sh*t! There goes the site...
That's not the part I am talking about. Read the second line in the license summary. Commercial use is allowed if you are sampling the sound, to create something new and creative (as is traditionally done with sampling in music). However distributing the sound in it's entirety is only allowed for non-commercial purposes. When using the sounds in an application, you likely won't be remixing them, you will use them as is. If the author of the application makes money from it (regardless of whether it is open source, consider Ximian) then that is commercial use, which is not allowed by the license.
So open source projects would not be allowed to make money off of their projects if they were using sounds under this license, and likewise, no-one else could take the project and make money off of it, without stripping out the sounds, both of which are allowed by the GPL.
Of course, you are absolutely right in saying that they could always ask the authors to relicense the files under different terms, and there is a good chance that they will agree. I was just trying to clarify what the license said as it is written.
What they should do, is team up with Google. Ask them to allow sound files in Google Base, then upload all of their sounds there. This will get them a free, (almost-)non-slashdottable, mirror.
http://www.openclipart.org/ This what you're looking for?
If someone wants to commercially distribute said GPL app, they need only contact the original authors of the samples to get permission to do so.
Or, if a lawyer got together with the company's devel team, they could take advantage of the term "verbatim", and compress or bundle the samples in a format that limits their usefulness to the task at hand.
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