Latest additions
New feature: map search
February 13th, 2024
Hi everyone,
We are happy to announce that we have just released a new feature that will allow you to display the results of a search query on a map. Under the “advanced search” settings panel, you’ll now find a new option to “Display results in map” which will, well, display the search results i...
2023 in numbers
January 19th, 2024
Hi everyone,
It happened again! Another year has passed so it is time to show you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. As usual, we start by showing some general statistics similar to those shown in previous years’ posts, and at the end we focus on a different aspect of Freesound...
Welcome to the new Freesound!
October 30th, 2023
Hi everyone,
We are very happy to announce that finally, after years of work, we are able to release the new Freesound user interface (UI) codenamed Beast Whoosh (or BW, or Freesound 3). It was early 2017 when we first contacted the UI/UX designer Marc Ruaix to work on a new version of Freesound ...
A simple taxonomy for Freesound – Participate in the experiment
July 10th, 2023
Hi everyone,
We announce to you the launch of our web experiment Freesound Taxonomies on an sound taxonomy for Freesound.
The Freesound Taxonomies experiment is a listening test in which you are asked to categorize a number of sounds into a set of “categories”. These categories belong to a new ta...
Sustainability Report 2022
April 28th, 2023
Dear Freesounders,
Welcome to our 2022 Sustainability Report! Here we give an update on how 2022 went for Freesound in terms of sustainability, and present our plans for 2023. You’ll see that most of the information is very similar to previous years’ posts, but still, we think that it is importan...