[HN Gopher] Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
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Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
Author : diibv
Score : 743 points
Date : 2021-05-21 10:25 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.freesound.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.freesound.org)
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Very good project, all sounds in our app use resources taken from
| this site. It has very good search function that crucially allows
| you too specify license.
| kragen wrote:
| We've come a long way since sounds.sdsu.edu, both in terms of the
| volume of sound files publicly on the internet and in terms of
| the legal protection of users against copyright.
|
| 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...
| sdenton4 wrote:
| You're just an empty cage, girl, if you kill the bird.
| tech234a wrote:
| Many of the sounds used in Minecraft came from Freesound[1].
|
| [1]: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/attribution/sound
| rationalData wrote:
| Any contributors here? Thank you for making the world a better
| place. It's inspiring!
| reputet wrote:
| TL;DR: It's more about short sounds like birdsong, weather, etc
| than music. Although, I saw some music samples as well.
|
| _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.
| schemescape wrote:
| Thanks for the explanation (esp. since the blog post doesn't
| appear to even link back to the main web site).
| ivanche wrote:
| You've probably missed it, it's at the top, just under the
| image. There are 2 links: "Home" and "Back to freesound.org".
| You need the second one.
| schemescape wrote:
| Huh, I'm pretty sure that wasn't there when I read the
| article. I recall seeing only the "Home" link (and I did a
| Ctrl+F on the HTML and didn't see any links that went
| outside the blog sub domain except for on a user comment at
| the bottom of the page).
|
| But glad to know there is in fact a link now!
| akomtu wrote:
| Good stuff. I use freesound from time to time. Their download
| speeds could be better, though. I see no reason why their can't
| provide a torrent link for every song.
| area51org wrote:
| I half expected there to be a torrent for the entire
| collection. Slightly surprised there isn't one.
| swyx wrote:
| more free sound resources that I collect:
|
| - https://www.zapsplat.com/
|
| - https://www.myinstants.com
|
| - 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
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| https://www.pianobook.co.uk/ has hundreds of no-charge sample
| libraries (many pianos, lots of other things). The most common
| format is for Kontakt (non-libre, but available for Windows &
| macOS at no cost). There's quite a few in DecentSampler format
| and a few SFZ. It's not hard to extract the audio files from
| any of them if you need to.
| swyx wrote:
| excellent, ty
| jb1991 wrote:
| That YouTube link appears to be broken for me.
| kfarr wrote:
| Awesome list, thanks for sharing. I'll admit I'm also
| commenting so I remember this in the future...
| swyx wrote:
| or you could... yknow... star my repo :)
| BrunoJo wrote:
| Pixabay is another great resource for completely free music:
| https://pixabay.com/music/
| asiachick wrote:
| I don't think this issue is specific to freesound but has anyone
| ever figured out a way to make sounds easy to find? I guess ML
| might help if could take what's in the sounds (people do that too
| but they are often wrong or motivated to use false tags). I find
| finding good and appropriate sounds the hardest part.
| diibv wrote:
| Hi, I'm another researcher at the Music Technology Group, which
| runs Freesound. Definitely, this one of our long-time
| challenges.
|
| 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...
| teknopaul wrote:
| Top tool. I'm a regular.
|
| Ben fet nois!
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| Is there any way to download without creating an account.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| Is there any technical reason that an account is needed to
| download a free, public file. Is there a business reason. Users
| might want to know.
| alastairp wrote:
| I'm a researcher at the Music Technology group who works on
| freesound (https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg)
|
| 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
| [deleted]
| gerdesj wrote:
| Thank you. [Birds twittering on laptop speakers]
|
| What a resource. Here's a random sound:
| https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/
| jtbayly wrote:
| A random sound with a typo. Lol.
| lapinot wrote:
| my personal favorite
| https://freesound.org/people/sirplus/sounds/90644/
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| Before this, I did not know this resource existed.
|
| Thanks so much!
| laymonage wrote:
| Thank you for your work! It has helped me a lot :)
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| this is great thanks. I might finally be able to find the new
| sound I've been searching for so long:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLlR4pvhyg
| ngold wrote:
| Freesound is an amazing project. Thanks for the labs link. Good
| to know.
| Vinnl wrote:
| I'm sure it's not what you had in mind when it comes to use
| cases for Freesound, but it's what made this VSCode extension
| possible:
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VincentT...
|
| So thanks... I guess :)
| qorrect wrote:
| Haha, nice.
| shoto_io wrote:
| Is there anything similar for entire songs?
| aquietlife wrote:
| Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/
| Flex247A wrote:
| http://www.nihilore.com/
| yorwba wrote:
| That appears to be one person publishing their music under
| CC-BY. That's nice of them, but not similar to Freesound's
| massive collection.
|
| 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.
| CodeArtisan wrote:
| https://opengameart.org/
|
| https://itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-music
| Turing_Machine wrote:
| https://musopen.org/
|
| Has sound recordings and also sheet music. Mostly
| classical/orchestral.
| miniwark wrote:
| https://freemusicarchive.org/
|
| https://www.jamendo.com/
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| https://cchound.com/
|
| http://ccmixter.org/
|
| And probably many more
| shoto_io wrote:
| Thanks, jamendo seems not be free of charge though.
| senkora wrote:
| Libre.fm is good for discovering CC music. I don't know if
| there's an easy way to search but there are genre tags.
|
| https://libre.fm/listen.php
| jckl wrote:
| slsk
| pabs3 wrote:
| I wonder if there are any sites for collaboratively created
| songs where the source data for each song is also shared.
| ipsum2 wrote:
| I don't know if the maintainers of Freesound are around, but this
| file
| https://freesound.org/media/html_player/img/icon_background....
| is loaded every couple miliseconds when the audio file plays,
| resulting in tens of thousands of image loads per page.
| alastairp wrote:
| Interesting, thanks for the report. I can't see this behaviour
| when testing myself. Do you mean that there is a network load
| of the file every few milliseconds, or that the file disappears
| and reappears in the DOM? From what I can tell, this file is
| added with static CSS, so it shouldn't be reloading all the
| time. Are you playing from the search results page, or a sound
| page? Bug reports are welcome:
| https://github.com/MTG/freesound/issues
| dinosuno wrote:
| With AI generative sounds, it should reach next 500k within
| months.
| anitil wrote:
| My understanding is that this is for original content, which
| can then be used as a corpus to make generated sounds
| atoav wrote:
| As a freelance rerecording mixer I regularily used sounds from
| freesound and felt it was my duty to contribute with sounds I
| couldn't find. I still get notifications once or twice a week
| about some sound being used in a game or a film.
| parisianka wrote:
| Keep going!
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| I was watching some kid from Germany go into how he creates the
| sound track for his youtube videos. And quickly realized I
| underestimated the effort it takes to make youtube video. What
| seemed like a simple video, had a 15 layer sound track. Some
| people spend more time on editing the sounds than the video.
|
| Here he explains how he does it if anyone is interested.
|
| https://youtu.be/CpE8Xdv9GF0
| superasn wrote:
| Yeah but what's scary is Youtube's automatic copyright strikes.
| I was watching this video where a guy created a soundtrack
| using samples from a site like freesound (the whole video was
| actually about making your own Youtube tracks) and as soon the
| video uploaded.. boom 5 minutes later he gets a copyright
| strike. He said in the video it happens a lot when you use
| freely available samples since the algorithm often confuses it.
| It was sometime back so I don't have the link right now but
| uploading Youtube and getting copyright notices sounds fucking
| scary that I wouldn't want do it at all.
| dbspin wrote:
| Part of the reason (perhaps the whole reason) for that is
| that there's a cohort of people who upload commercial sounds
| to freesound for some reason. Extremely annoying.
| anitil wrote:
| That sounds a bit like an intentional false flag operation.
| Intentionally upload landmines into a free resource...
| Ericson2314 wrote:
| I was wondering if there was something like this.
|
| 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.
| mrfox321 wrote:
| Diablo 2 monster sound effects always seem to show up in random
| places.
| dhosek wrote:
| I'm vaguely reminded of when I was charged with adding sounds to
| a Java applet game. As a joke I added a five minute sequence of
| "dying" sounds I found online somewhere. Each death scream was
| separated with about a second of silence. It was a beautifully
| comic effect as it just kept going on and on and on. We were
| tempted to shift it as an Easter egg but it dramatically
| increased the size of the applet and this was the days of most
| people accessing the internet via dialup.
| Smithalicious wrote:
| You should've made it rarely trigger during Halloween
|
| Imagine the urban legends
| dhosek wrote:
| The biggest challenge was, this was 2000 and MP3s were still
| a new technology and Java of that era could only play
| uncompressed audio samples.
| josefx wrote:
| And how many of those are correctly licensed? I already found one
| that directly mentioned that it was ripped from a YouTube video
| and if this is in any way like free 3d model collections it will
| be stuffed with assets ripped from commercial games.
| kennywinker wrote:
| In my experience, the vast majority are user-created sounds
| TonyTrapp wrote:
| Indeed. And you can tell it's genuine when people list the
| tools they used, where they recorded it, etc...
| tomc1985 wrote:
| Fun story, I uploaded some recordings of the family dog playing a
| very rough-sounding game of tug-of-war with me. I got a bunch of
| great growls and snarls from it, and they are uploaded to
| Freesound.
|
| She's since passed, I think those are my only audio recordings of
| her.
| jarmitage wrote:
| In case you didn't know, Freesound has an API:
| https://freesound.org/docs/api/
|
| 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/
| PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
| At one point in time, Ardour (x-platform, FLOSS DAW) let you
| directly search and download from Freesound within the program.
|
| 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.
| mxmilkiib wrote:
| https://github.com/ffont/FreesoundSimpleSampler - demonstrates
| the use of the freesound-juce API client; the user can create a
| textual query to Freesound.org and 16 random sounds are loaded
| in a sampler.
|
| https://github.com/aframires/FreesoundUploader - for uploading
| sounds to Freesound.org without opening a web browser
| dang wrote:
| Looks like only one small past thread:
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| _Freesound: A collaborative database of Creative Commons-
| licensed sounds_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8858076 -
| Jan 2015 (6 comments)
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