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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. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    This is one awesome resource if you can weed out the junk.

  2. Reminds me of... by Cave_Monster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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).

  3. This should improve Open Source quality. by external400kdiskette · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Nice by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I hope im not the only one around here that didnt know anything about this project.
    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!