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Imagine, if 20 years ago somebody told you there would be a method for people to share and contribute sounds from all over the world instantly; well, that's what we have with freesound.org. Whenever I hit a wall with my personal libraries I can do a quick search there and usually find something unique, and many times the recordings are available at professional sample and bit rates.
Who else out there uses this great resource?
I've used it once or twice before. The problem I have with it is the crediting clause in the creative commons license (see below), unless I'm misunderstanding it. Let's say I use 10 sounds for a film, that's a big chunk of credit space :-(. Getting a producer or product manager to agree to significantly multiply the credit space they give to the sound department for a few particular sound effects ain't easy.
Attribution and Notice.
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If You distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the Original Author if supplied; the title of the Work if supplied; to the extent reasonably practicable, provide the Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work or a Derivative Work, unless such Uniform Resource Identifier does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the Work; and in the case of a Derivative Work, provide a credit identifying the use of the Work in the Derivative Work (e.g., "Remix of the Work by Original Author," or "Inclusion of a portion of the Work by Original Author in collage"). Such credit may be implemented in any reasonable manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Derivative Work or Collective Work, at a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as such other comparable authorship credit.
Freesound is great! It s always very handy when you need specific sounds that you don t have, or you don t have the time to record. It s great!
Freesound is fantastic, and always good for those hard to find recordings....
Unfortunately I've ignored it until last week because some sounds that my friends used in their videos were quite simply horrendous (quality-wise)... but I surrendered and I'm realising it's not all that bad :)
Lots of free (and terrible) recordings.
There really needs to be some kind of quality control, rating system, etc. that actually works.
I used Freesound for some of the sounds used in my sound replacement project for F.E.A.R 3. At the end of the trailer I credited all the sounds. I wonder if it would be acceptable to refer viewer to credits posted on a website as an alternative.
I'm sure you've noticed by now, but I use it quite a bit. I absolutely love it -- it's a perfect resource for guys like me without money. :D
well, I upload once in a while some sounds to it, mainly, because I want to see, if my sound are good or miserable =). Problem with freesound is, that most of the people just download stuff and never upload anything, so pushing each other is difficult sometimes. Last year I used some stuff for a no-budget short movie, but you need some time to get proper sounds. Since then, I never downloaded stuff again, not because the sounds are bad, but because I want to expand my own library.
Great feedback, all.
I thought I understood that, so long as you make note on freesound.org itself as to how you used the sound, you were all good. No?
what if you combined 8 freesound's into your own thing?
