We wanted a repository of instantly-usable sounds for music (and other "sound-combination" pocesses) production. Songs are good to sample from, but nothing beats a pre-cut loop, or a multi-sampled vibraphone when it comes to making music.
And, there's plenty of sites out there that already do songs. ccMixter being probably one of best known ones. There's not one site that does only samples, we thought there should be.
Freesound is a tool for "music-MAKING" rather than "music-LISTENING".
We chose for one licence as it is already very difficult trying to explain this one license and it's details to people. We know this is troublesome for some people, perhaps we will switch to two licenses somewhere in the future, 'public domain' and 'sampling+'.
I'm sorry but that's not correct. The Sampling+ license does not prevent commercial usage: "You may not use this work to advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it." ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ )
This means -for example- you can't use Sampling+ sounds for a commercial for a car (without asking the original author for permission). But this doesn't mean you can't use a sound in a commercial application. ANother thing people tend to forget is that the original author obviously keeps the right to do whatever he wants with the sample. So, if you really WANT to use a sound in a commercial, you can just ask for permission.
Counting all of them I think I've recieved over 3000 today...
Can anyone recomend a nice online service that filters emails through spam and virus filtering and then sends back to a different mailbox? I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time. Messagelabs seems nice, but they don't deal with one person.
For you information: belgium allready has non-digital ID cards, which are obligatory to every citizen. You are even obligated to carry them around at any time and CAN be asked to show them to police if they have "reason" to suspect you of something.
I got a student-job editing silly old printouts of DB's to fit into a new system. Being a bit of a coder I told'm to get me the DIGITAL versions of the files (just plain ascii) and started writing file-parsing utils in C++ for them. This all being on silly wages, of course, I'm just a student who's supposed to be typing out these printouts:-)
Whatever.
Then they showed me the terminals where they used to do the editing on the old system and I tell'm: I can get out the data all you want just by writing an automation script that messes with the erminal. Basicaly the old system was written in some seriously gruesome language everyone forgot (something they developed themselves), but using the builtin macro language of the terminals I could just emulate a human punching in commands, real fast. Still on 'key-punching-student' wages.
So, I complain and tell'm I'm saving them weeks of work, which wa basicaly the truth. And they told me: sure, you'll get a serious bonus at the end. After about two weeks I get: nothing. I left there seriously pissed off.
About 2 months later I get a phone call from them asking me if I could write some new scripts for them. They had some data in the old system they could only LOOK at, no way to print or export it to files. A macro with screendumps was needed.
My reply was short and clear: "sure, but it'll cost you what you SHOULD have paid me the first time: $50/hr". Put down the phone and had a laughing fit.
They got back to me after 1 week -probably explaining to the boss why they needed me- and told me: ok.
In one day I made more than in those two weeks.
I didn't get mad. I got even.
Just kidding, but just to let you know that we poor students get set up too.
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We wanted a repository of instantly-usable sounds for music (and other "sound-combination" pocesses) production. Songs are good to sample from, but nothing beats a pre-cut loop, or a multi-sampled vibraphone when it comes to making music.
And, there's plenty of sites out there that already do songs. ccMixter being probably one of best known ones. There's not one site that does only samples, we thought there should be.
Freesound is a tool for "music-MAKING" rather than "music-LISTENING".
Hope that makes sense.
- bram
We chose for one licence as it is already very difficult trying to explain this one license and it's details to people. We know this is troublesome for some people, perhaps we will switch to two licenses somewhere in the future, 'public domain' and 'sampling+'.
- bram
I'm sorry but that's not correct. The Sampling+ license does not prevent commercial usage:/ )
"You may not use this work to advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it."
( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0
This means -for example- you can't use Sampling+ sounds for a commercial for a car (without asking the original author for permission). But this doesn't mean you can't use a sound in a commercial application. ANother thing people tend to forget is that the original author obviously keeps the right to do whatever he wants with the sample. So, if you really WANT to use a sound in a commercial, you can just ask for permission.
- bram
Ugh, someone borked my contact address.d =17
It's: http://www.iua.upf.edu/mtg/pages/contact/single?i
ok, this is my first atempt at genuine slashdot humor, so be kind on me.
[braces self]
In russia traffic barrels crash into you.
http://www.spth.de.vu/
- bram
does anyone have a good procmail rule for this one? right now I'm just filtering *.zip, but that seems hardly right.
- bram
Actualy, we have an ISP in belgium called Skynet. ;-)
Scares me everytime I hear their name
=> http://www.skynet.be/
That should have been: not like the FIRST 'e' in 'elementary'
*duh* !
- bram
The 'e' in Duvel is pronounced as the 'u' in 'dust', not like the 'e' in 'elementary'.
- bram, one of the 5 non-beer-drinking-belgians
Counting all of them I think I've recieved over 3000 today...
Can anyone recomend a nice online service that filters emails through spam and virus filtering and then sends back to a different mailbox?
I've been looking for something like this for a LONG time. Messagelabs seems nice, but they don't deal with one person.
- bram
It wans't.
It was a bug, not an exploit:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/18452
Opera to rule them all
Yeah, you're right, and thanks for reminding me.
I blanked out the relevant parts....
For you information:
belgium allready has non-digital ID cards, which are obligatory to every citizen. You are even obligated to carry them around at any time and CAN be asked to show them to police if they have "reason" to suspect you of something.
You could have a look at mine, for example...
http://studwww.rug.ac.be/~bdejong/id.jpg
I got a student-job editing silly old printouts of DB's to fit into a new system. :-)
Being a bit of a coder I told'm to get me the DIGITAL versions of the files (just plain ascii) and started writing file-parsing utils in C++ for them.
This all being on silly wages, of course, I'm just a student who's supposed to be typing out these printouts
Whatever.
Then they showed me the terminals where they used to do the editing on the old system and I tell'm: I can get out the data all you want just by writing an automation script that messes with the erminal.
Basicaly the old system was written in some seriously gruesome language everyone forgot (something they developed themselves), but using the builtin macro language of the terminals I could just emulate a human punching in commands, real fast.
Still on 'key-punching-student' wages.
So, I complain and tell'm I'm saving them weeks of work, which wa basicaly the truth. And they told me: sure, you'll get a serious bonus at the end.
After about two weeks I get: nothing.
I left there seriously pissed off.
About 2 months later I get a phone call from them asking me if I could write some new scripts for them.
They had some data in the old system they could only LOOK at, no way to print or export it to files. A macro with screendumps was needed.
My reply was short and clear: "sure, but it'll cost you what you SHOULD have paid me the first time: $50/hr".
Put down the phone and had a laughing fit.
They got back to me after 1 week -probably explaining to the boss why they needed me- and told me: ok.
In one day I made more than in those two weeks.
I didn't get mad. I got even.
Just kidding, but just to let you know that we poor students get set up too.
- bram
Never tried it before.
However, http://www.fortisbanking.be seems to work w/ Opera. I set it to identify as Mozilla just to make sure.
Fortis is a Belgian and Dutch bank...
- bram
Oh dear! Will you people stop slashdotting my university's servers!! :-D ;-) )
(yes, we belgians read slashdot too
- bram
Hey,
if anyone is interested in writing his own audio effects, be it under linux or 'doze, check out http://www.musicdsp.org !
- bram