We also maintain Freesound labs, which lists a lot of projects and research made using content from freesound: https://labs.freesound.org/
FSD50k is our hand-curated dataset of sounds designed for research in sound and event recognition tasks https://zenodo.org/record/4060432#.X3xrgi8RqL4, http://dcase.community/challenge2019/task-audio-tagging
So thanks... I guess :)
What a resource. Here's a random sound: https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
Thanks so much!
- https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1
- https://www.icons8.com/music
- https://www.cchound.com 100% free, quality CC audio
- https://www.aaraalto.com/sounds a few brief guitar samples for podcast transitions
- https://www.transistor.fm/free-podcast-intro-music free podcast intro music
and some paid stuff in the list https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy#sound
And publications: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=freesound
I believe it's managed by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg
You can support it with donations: https://freesound.org/donations/donate/
We stopped doing that when their authentication API changed. They've subsequently changed it to something that would allow the functionality to be restored, but nobody has found the time to do that yet.
https://github.com/aframires/FreesoundUploader - for uploading sounds to Freesound.org without opening a web browser
Freesound: A collaborative database of Creative Commons-licensed sounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858076 - Jan 2015 (6 comments)
Here he explains how he does it if anyone is interested.
Imagine the urban legends
She's since passed, I think those are my only audio recordings of her.
Has sound recordings and also sheet music. Mostly classical/orchestral.
I think http://www.ccmixter.org/ would be a more likely candidate, or SoundCloud's search restricted to CC licenses. There are also lots of musicians publishing CC music on Bandcamp, but the site doesn't allow filtering by license. The best approximation I've found is searching "some rights reserved" site:bandcamp.com with DDG and then checking which license the link points to.
Facilitating search and exploration is one of our main research directions related to Freesound. We do audio ML research, in particular, audio-based auto-tagging (see the already mentioned Freesound Datasets https://annotator.freesound.org/fsd/ we've built for this purpose) but also similarity and clustering based on audio analysis and tags.
So far, Freesound API provides similarity search and audio analysis features.
Have a look at the Freesound Explorer, which is an example of a 2D sound exploration interface built on top of audio features: https://labs.freesound.org/apps/2017/08/21/freesound-explore...
Still, there was something magical about downloading that first copy of Tori Amos's Crucify as a 64-kbps .au file, that seems to be missing from today's internet...
Whatever the main commercial sound effect database is, it's not big enough, because I am always hearing the same sounds and it's uncanny. For example, I think a Camel in John Wick 3 makes the same sound as in Age of Empiress 2.
Ben fet nois!
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ...
https://freesound.org/help/about/
Nice project.
