Freesound
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Type of site
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Audio clip sharing |
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| Owner | Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Created by | Bram de Jong, Freesound Team |
| Website | freesound |
| Alexa rank |
 6,774 (February 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Yes and required |
| Launched | April 5, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
Freesound is a collaborative of Creative Commons licensed audio samples with more than 230,000 sounds and 4 million registered users (as of February 2015). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of subjects, from field recordings to synthesized sound effects. 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.
Freesound originally used the Creative Commons 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.
The Freesound Project was officially launched on April 5, 2005 in the context of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference. It is a project of the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Bram de Jong and the other members of the Freesound Team are responsible for developing and administrating the Freesound website.
Children of Men was the first major motion picture known to legally use a sample from Freesound in its production. The sound used was "male_Thijs_loud_scream.aiff" posted by the user thanvannispen, and the film properly attributes the sample in the credits.
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