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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.
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 ==
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User-specific generated keys are used to access [http://freesound.org/help/developers/ 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesound Wikipedia] ~230,000 sounds were present on the site as of February 2015. There were an estimated ~1TB of sounds in 2014.
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== Vital Signs ==
== Vital Signs ==

Revision as of 10:56, 17 January 2017

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.

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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.

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