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Freesound Reaches 10,000 Files

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-sound-of-an-insane-man-pulling-the-hair-out-of-a-baboons-back dept.

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."

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  1. sound of the day by aneroid · · Score: 5, Informative

    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)

  2. great resource for audio creators by davidtweet · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Mirror by lmbettez · · Score: 3, Informative

    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/

  4. Re:Creative commons music by Heembo · · Score: 4, Informative

    I used Winamp from the beginning - It's really cool to see what their creators are up to. If you are into iTunes - check THIS out from Dimitry of Winamp fame: http://subband.com/ It's supposedly "allows you to add bass frequencies, spatialization, 3D surround sound and numerous other real-time enhancements to your music when played through iTunes" - any chance this is cool?

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  5. Re:Creative commons music by t0qer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even cooler than that is Justin's Jesusonic, a programmable DSP that works with ASIO (almost all sound cards can be made to work with an ASIO mixer) Not to mention it works on mac, pc,*nix varients and is free.

  6. Re:OT, but similar project for vector art/clip art by arose · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://openclipart.org/

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