Freesound

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Freesound

Freesound's logo, stylised as 'freesound'.
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Type of site	Audio clip sharing
Owner	Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Created by	Bram de Jong, Freesound Team
URL	freesound.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Yes and required
Launched	April 5, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-04-05)
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.