Latest additions
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...
In Memoriam: Freed Hartman (24 April 1963 – 1 February 2023)
April 11th, 2023
[Guest blog post by Riki Refaeli and David Talmor, Freed‘s family and friends]
With great sorrow we part from Friedhelm Hans “Freed” Hartmann upon his tragic death, and provide this tribute to Freed and his many activities including his strong contributions to the Freesound community.
From 1979 ...
New user interface pre-release
March 22nd, 2023
Hi everyone,
I know it has been a while since the last update regarding the new Beast Whoosh user interface that we’ve been working on for the last… 5 years already! Well, now we’re getting reaaaally close to the final release. For that reason, today we’re announcing a pre-release.
When using the...