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A quick question.

Can not the selection of available licences depend on sound lenght and belonging to pack of short/long clips? (i.e. blocking some licences for short sounds, allowing some licences for longer sounds or for packs of shorts). This can be automated.

There are a couple of samples that I've posted that were recorded with a shotgun + figure of 8. You can use the (free) voxengo MSED to mute the mid/side alternatively to listen to the mics separately + boost the side to hear it more clearly.

MSED: http://www.voxengo.com/product/msed/

some M-S samples:

http://www.freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/185598/

http://www.freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/187279/

http://www.freesound.org/people/Yuval/sounds/185367/

Hi,

From begin June a new radio will be launched, i've been asked to do a monthly podcast ''Sound of Inverserz''.
I was hoping someone could help me out by making a ''Dark sample'' of ;

''Welcome... To Sound Of Inverserz''.

Example ; http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/34448675/file.html

Thanks!

IMVHO, the quickest way to overcome Audacity's limits is to use DAW programs, some of which are not just cheap, but free. To name just a few examples:

Ardour (Linux, Mac) http://ardour.org/
Qtractor (Linux) http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/
LMMS (Linux, Windows) http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
Ableton Live Lite 8 (Windows, Mac, Linux via WINE) https://www.ableton.com/en/products/live-lite/

HTH

We're not adopting the SA licenses because:

1. it doesn't make sense for a tiny 50ms sound to dictate the license of a song/movie/game
2. 3 licenses and one "deprecated" license are already more than enough to confuse the hell out of "regular people"

( qubodup, we aren't "regular people": we understand about licenses, we use linux, we throw around terms like copyleft and GPL like it's normal. Don't forget freesound has a userbase of > 2 milion people! )

Freesound is GPL/Affero because it's a HUGE codebase and we wanted to make it public.

- bram

digifishmusic wrote:
For example -
http://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/39914/

becomes...

http://freesound.org/people/spsound-bkk/sounds/131157/

under - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

However, you are required to give attribution and also to require that the attribution gets preserved, when re-distributing the remix (that's my interpretation of 4.b. of CC-BY 3). CC0 does not require this, so you are correct that audio which remixes CC-BY3 works needs to be CC-BY3 or CC-BY-NC3 (these are the two options on Freesound that require attribution).

In this case, the remix is not marked as a remix using the Freesound remix system ( http://freesound.org/browse/remixed/512359/ ). This means that the Freesound system doesn't even know that it is a remix and if the feature your request would work, it would not work in this case, as it would rely on users using the remix system.

When I see such cases, I contact the remix-uploader, explaining what I wrote above and request that they change the license. So far most have been glad to respect the works of others with one exception that reacted annoyed and unwilling to invest time into giving attribution. They left Freesound as a result.

Some users never reply (there could be various reasons). In these cases I write to the admin team, requesting to delete the sound or change the license.

By the way, I highly recommend to forget about http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ and instead to refer to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode when discussing the license in detail.

If you haven't contacted the user and don't mind, I would contact them and ask them to change to CC-BY3 or CC-BY-NC3.

Bram wrote:
We explicitly did NOT choose to work with the SA licenses because I think they don't make any sense: say you license a bass-drum sound under SA, someone uses this sound in a song and ... they HAVE to use the same license for the song.

Using -BY-SA would block many use cases (-BY and -BY-NC doe as well) but I do think that it's still very useful. Just like all the text on Wikipedia and most of the images, videos and audio files on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons are. (I have no statistics but my impression is that -BY-SA is the most popular media license on Wikimedia Commons.)

I would love to have the -BY-SA license on Freesound, especially if it would replace the non-free -BY-NC option.

Bram wrote:
The case you show, digifish, seems like fair usage to me, but that might just be me.

This remix does not seem to infringe on CC-BY3 - except for the incomplete attribution - but it uses CC0, which allows all uses, including ones that infringe on CC-BY3.

I would love to hear Freesound's lawyers' position. They did a great job on the Terms of Use page!

Hi all,

I'm looking for samples of different microphone techniques used in field recordings for demonstrative purposes in a class about field recording. I would be particularly interested in any recordings where the same or a similar source has been recorded with different microphones and/or different techniques, such as: binaural, shotgun, M/S stereo shotgun, or other different (omni or cardioid) stereo techniques. I'm aiming to demonstrate some differences in the images captured with the different techniques by comparing these (and other) recordings.

I would particularly be interested in any M/S stereo shotgun recordings where the M and S channels are still separate, so I could demonstrate to the students how one can change the balance between the ambience and the focal center (and hence in a way "zoom in" to a sound) by adjusting the balance between the mid and the side.

I'd be very grateful if anyone knows sounds that would be useful for such demonstrations either on this site or elsewhere, or if anyone has recorded sounds him/herself that would fit what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance!

Audacity is quite a good tool, but very limited. Its just very difficult to get the timing right when trying to create a sound, but for free music tools, its definitely one of the best ones around. Does anyone know any good music sofwares which are cheap? or just mixers?

To be honest this is a difficult to judge thing by me. We'd have to read the attribution legal code in detail ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode ) and I'm not a lawyer. I think in this case especially part (4. Restrictions.) of the license is the important bit.

We explicitly did NOT choose to work with the SA licenses because I think they don't make any sense: say you license a bass-drum sound under SA, someone uses this sound in a song and ... they HAVE to use the same license for the song.

That said, it would be rather interesting that if people flag files as a remix of other files on freesound they should get a restricted selection of license possibilities. This was implemented in ccmixter I believe, but there even more importance was given to remixing.

The case you show, digifish, seems like fair usage to me, but that might just be me. The user credited you, perhaps not perfectly, but even so ("Thanks digifish") and remixed/transformed your sound into a new piece of work. I think that perhaps this should still be credited better "this song uses sample XYZ from digifish which you can find here", but it's better than the average usage (which contains absolutely no attribution ).

This might shound a bit harsh, but... If you do not want people to use your sounds wrongly, i.e. without crediting you, I think the best is to keep your sounds on your hard drive and never share them. Using share-alike will not help in combating people using the sounds illegally. The reality is that your sounds WILL be used in the wrong way once you publish them! The only advantage is that people have the possibility of doing it legally. And that is the power of CC!

That said, I think it's interesting enough to ask the lawyer we have working on freesound things ( he made these: http://www.freesound.org/help/tos_web/ ) to see what we should do about the licenses of sounds on freesound that use other sounds... I'll see if we can figure out what this means legally...

- bram

What are you looking for?
Give me more details.

Hi everybody!
I need a male/female to say, "The spade at work"

Thank you very much in advance!
Hope someone can help

Can anyone help me out, please?

Thank you!

Hi,

This "CC0" in Advanced search that you talk about?

Where is that please?

All I have are these options:

[IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/2w1xxki.png[/IMG]

I cannot see a Creative Commons or price related option.

thanks a lot

Hi guys,

I need an audio file of a male saying "no problem".

It should be in the vein of the "that was easy" button from Staples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YmMNpbFjp0

The voice is supposed to tell the audience, that the current issue/challenge they're experiencing can easily be solved - i.e. is not a problem...

Many thanks in advance!

Just heard about this but don't know anything personally. A professional sound editor I know said it was pretty good.

http://www.sounddogs.com/

Same problem here. How to download using wget etc? I gave username/password but still didn't work.

Thanks (note, I might have missed links, I mostly only looked at the first post).

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