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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. 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).

  2. 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.