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It seems at one point the site relied on university-provided research hosting, and has had a troubled past with downtime.  
It seems at one point the site relied on university-provided research hosting, and has had a troubled past with downtime.  
In June 2008 the site's domain [http://web.archive.org/web/20080614040102/http://www.freesound.org/ switched] from freesound.iua.upf.edu to freesound.org - since that point reliability has improved.
In June 2008 the site's domain [http://web.archive.org/web/20080614040102/http://www.freesound.org/ switched] from freesound.iua.upf.edu to freesound.org - since that point reliability has improved.
== Previous Discussion ==
It seems there was some fairly in-depth discussion about the process and politics of archiving Freesound in [http://web.archive.org/web/20160826085443id_/http://archive.fart.website/bin/irclogger_log/archiveteam?date=2016-03-05,Sat&sel=110#l106 #archiveteam IRC May 2016]. However, users dispanded to IRC channel '#freeallthesounds' which isn't archived - it is unclear whether progress was made.


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 08:59, 26 August 2016

Freesound.org
Freesound2005.png
URL http://www.freesound.org/
Status Online!
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Freesound is a website for free audio material exchange, founded through the International Computer Music Computer Conference in 2005.

A free account is required to download sounds on the website. Uploaders can choose licensing agreements for their sound, CC0, CC BY, and CC BY-NC - but emphasis is placed on collaborative potential of open sounds.

API

User-specific generated keys are used to access Freesound's API. The API tools search, retrieve metadata, retrieve comments and generate download links for sounds - this could possibly be used to scrape and archive the site.

According to Wikipedia ~230,000 sounds were present on the site as of February 2015. There were an estimated ~1TB of sounds in 2014.

Vital Signs

The site shows no immediate signs of going under.

It seems at one point the site relied on university-provided research hosting, and has had a troubled past with downtime. In June 2008 the site's domain switched from freesound.iua.upf.edu to freesound.org - since that point reliability has improved.

Previous Discussion

It seems there was some fairly in-depth discussion about the process and politics of archiving Freesound in #archiveteam IRC May 2016. However, users dispanded to IRC channel '#freeallthesounds' which isn't archived - it is unclear whether progress was made.

External links