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![]() Freesound's logo, stylised as 'freesound'. | |
Type of site | Audio clip sharing |
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Owner | Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Created by | Bram de Jong, Freesound Team |
URL | freesound |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Yes and required |
Launched | April 5, 2005 |
Current status | Active |
Content license | Creative Commons |
Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021),[1] and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of subjects, from field recordings to synthesised sounds. 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.