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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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Post by gerdesj »

alastairp wrote: post #11

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…

Thank you. [Birds twittering on laptop speakers]

What a resource. Here's a random sound: https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by jtbayly »

gerdesj wrote: post #31
alastairp wrote: post #11

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…

Thank you. [Birds twittering on laptop speakers] What a resource. Here's a random sound: https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/

A random sound with a typo. Lol.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by dukeofdoom »

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

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by lapinot »

gerdesj wrote: post #31
alastairp wrote: post #11

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…

Thank you. [Birds twittering on laptop speakers] What a resource. Here's a random sound: https://freesound.org/people/Bosk1/sounds/144083/

my personal favorite https://freesound.org/people/sirplus/sounds/90644/

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by superasn »

dukeofdoom wrote: post #33

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

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by schemescape »

reputet wrote: post #24

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.

Thanks for the explanation (esp. since the blog post doesn't appear to even link back to the main web site).
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