Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds • Hacker News Board

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by laymonage » Sun, May 23, 2021, 4:59 AM UTC

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 for your work! It has helped me a lot :)

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by asiachick » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:08 AM UTC

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by kfarr » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:11 AM UTC

swyx wrote: post #20

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…

Awesome list, thanks for sharing. I'll admit I'm also commenting so I remember this in the future...

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by ipsum2 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:15 AM UTC

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by BrunoJo » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:51 AM UTC

swyx wrote: post #20

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…

Pixabay is another great resource for completely free music: https://pixabay.com/music/

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by area51org » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:25 AM UTC

akomtu wrote: post #29

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.

I half expected there to be a torrent for the entire collection. Slightly surprised there isn't one.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by atoav » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:35 AM UTC

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by alastairp » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #44

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.

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

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by Ericson2314 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:44 AM UTC

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by mrfox321 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:45 AM UTC

Ericson2314 wrote: post #49

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.

Diablo 2 monster sound effects always seem to show up in random places.