{"id":6204,"date":"2012-05-11T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:15:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-11T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:15:04","slug":"freesound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/freesound\/","title":{"rendered":"Freesound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are sound effects libraries that cost more than a small car, and they&#8217;re probably worth it to certain kinds of users &mdash; like movie studios or audio production houses &mdash; but not to me. In search of interesting, appropriately licensed sounds for personal amusement, some google searching led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/freesound.org\">Freesound.org<\/a>, which has many thousands of freely usable, user-contributed sound recordings, all Creative Commons licensed. Some of them are tiny snippets, the audio equivalent of the icons on a computer screen, and some are lengthy field recordings. (Many of the sounds here are purely synthetic, too, or remixes that the CC licensing facilitates.) Last Halloween, I set up a playlist for my family&#8217;s &#8220;haunted condo,&#8221; consisting of screams, clanks, and creepy laughter (but also repurposed sounds like foghorns and musical instruments I thought sounded ominious), with sounds drawn entirely from this site.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s also a good place to find ring-tone and computer alert sources, if you&#8217;re just looking for audio clip art, or (with headphones, especially) fascinating &#8220;you are there&#8221; audio experiences; being transported to an audio landscape inhabited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesound.org\/people\/c97059890\/sounds\/21754\/\">gentle waves<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesound.org\/people\/milo\/sounds\/23452\/\">ships&#8217; horns<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesound.org\/people\/reinsamba\/sounds\/17085\/\">thunderstorms<\/a> is a legal way to escape ordinary consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Freesound really is free, too, though donations are accepted; it started as a project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mtg.upf.edu\/\">Music Technology Group of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upf.edu\/en\/index.shtml\">Universitat Pompeu Fabra<\/a>. One (very small) catch: you can listen all you want just by visiting the site; downloading the files requires free registration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best free sound library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}