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

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by ivanche » Sun, May 23, 2021, 7:54 PM UTC

schemescape wrote: post #40

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).

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 9:28 PM UTC

Is there any way to download without creating an account.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by anitil » Sun, May 23, 2021, 11:12 PM UTC

dbspin wrote: post #51

superasn wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 conf…

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.

That sounds a bit like an intentional false flag operation. Intentionally upload landmines into a free resource...

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by anitil » Sun, May 23, 2021, 11:13 PM UTC

dinosuno wrote: post #36

With AI generative sounds, it should reach next 500k within months.

My understanding is that this is for original content, which can then be used as a corpus to make generated sounds

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by tech234a » Sun, May 23, 2021, 11:48 PM UTC

Many of the sounds used in Minecraft came from Freesound[1].

[1]: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/attribution/sound

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Mon, May 24, 2021, 12:02 AM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #62

Is there any way to download without creating an account.

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.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by schemescape » Mon, May 24, 2021, 12:25 AM UTC

ivanche wrote: post #61

schemescape wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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!

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by jb1991 » Mon, May 24, 2021, 7:58 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…

That YouTube link appears to be broken for me.

Re: Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds

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Post by diibv » Mon, May 24, 2021, 11:58 AM UTC

asiachick wrote: post #42

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.

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...