Saturday, April 16, 2005

The Freesound Project - Noise under Creative Commons

Wanting to add some royalty free sounds to your blog? The Freesound Project is for you!

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to
  • browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more
  • up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
  • interact with fellow sound-artists!
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research.
A word of caution: Not all environments lend to themselves well to noisy websites. Libraries, classrooms and places of employment tend to frown on sudden, harsh outbursts. Be considerate in your design and give the user the option to easily stop the noise, use sound sparingly and/or briefly, or don't start the sound until the user says to begin playing.


Posted by: djuggler | 11:39 PM |