The Freesound Project
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Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021), and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of subjects, from field recordings to synthesised sounds. Audio content in the repository can be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means as well as standard text-based search. Audio content in the repository is also analysed using the open-source audio analysis tool Essentia, which powers the similarity
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It is catalogued under topics including 2005 establishments in Spain, Creative Commons-licensed databases and Internet properties established in 2005.
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Official website
Freesound
Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.freesound.org
- Has use
- file sharing
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- copyright license
- Creative Commons CC0 License
- inception
- 2005-04-05
- readable file format
- Waveform Audio File Format
- copyright status
- public domain
- social media followers
- 1096
- official blog URL
- blog.freesound.org
- terms of service URL
- freesound.org/help/tos_web
- official forum URL
- freesound.org/forum
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Licensing
- Release
- Features
- Software architecture
- References
- External links
Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021), and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of subjects, from field recordings to synthesised sounds. Audio content in the repository can be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means as well as standard text-based search. Audio content in the repository is also analysed using the open-source audio analysis tool Essentia, which powers the similarity search functionality of the site. Freesound has a RESTful API through which third-party applications can access and retrieve audio content and its metadata.
==Licensing== Freesound originally used the CC Sampling Plus license for all samples, but has since switched to using CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-NC. Older samples remain under Sampling Plus unless their uploaders have relicensed them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Freesound Project” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 9 languages
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