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Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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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

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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post #4

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 t…

You should've made it rarely trigger during Halloween

Imagine the urban legends

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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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/cha…

Freesound is an amazing project. Thanks for the labs link. Good to know.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

#16

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/cha…

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Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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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/cha…

Before this, I did not know this resource existed.

Thanks so much!

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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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

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