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I have an idea for something to add.

Challenge prompts, sound design exercises, and the like - things that make people want to learn and train their electronic music abilities.

When you published the most-searched terms, I was inspired to record and make a lot of sounds I otherwise would not have, because I knew more about what people wanted.

We need more stuff like this to encourage direct engagement with the site and community. Right now this site is still mostly visited by people who are here to grab stuff and leave, which is fine, but we also have enough knowledge and talent here to make some great memories and achieve some great innovations in sound and music, if we want to.

So to accomplish this, I would suggest recruiting a charismatic writer or two, to come up with articles, challenge prompts, sound design exercises, tutorials, etc. This could also be a chance to do small collaborations with notable musicians and sound designers.

I've tried setting up a couple of these things before (music challenges, collabs, etc.) but they're all here on the forum where hardly anyone sees them. If something is on the main Freesound page, it should generate much more interest.

This effort would also be assisted greatly if we could get notifications onsite instead of via email. If someone replies to a thread I subbed to, or makes a comment, being able to see and know that right here on the site would be very useful. This facilitates discussion, exchange of ideas, and helps prevent our words from disappearing into purgatory.

I'll share a bit about my field-recording process.

I use a set-and-forget method. I place the recorder somewhere and leave it.
Usually, I also begin recording before I have arrived at the place where I intend to make the main recording. This gives me time to narrate the time/date and my intentions so that I know the context of the sounds later.
Usually, my intentions are just to "record whatever happens", although I do sometimes take interest in a particular creature or environmental sound.

Therefore it is mostly circumstance and environment which govern my decision to begin recording. I seldom set out to target and record something in particular, but when I do, I succeed because I keep the recorder in hand and activate it before I even step outside to do the task.

This method has ensured that I miss very little. Whatever I hear is what the recorder hears - there is no "losing the sound" due to delays in powering on the device. There are a few things I have managed to hear but not record, and they were interesting, but I don't lament them because I understand missing out to be a consequence of existing. We always miss out on the overwhelming majority of things that happen, and this is not a problem. This should be celebrated rather than feared. If we had the ability to miss out on nothing, to perceive it all, that would derange us.

Now I suppose someone could say that the universe allows this because anything that did not want to be remembered or heard could simply ensure that it is quiet when I'm present, but of course I am only present while placing and retrieving the device.

I have captured a vast range of things I was unaware ever happened. For instance, I sometimes manage to record rainfalls that were too light and brief for me to hear indoors. I step outside, see dry ground and clear sky, assume nothing happened, and then discover rainfall in the recording. This would suggest that hitting record makes more things happen, provided I were one to entertain such beliefs. In practice, it is random, and some beings are overly predisposed to interpret forms and patterns from randomness.

Now, as for what all of this means to the others in this thread, and how they might interpret it or allow it to shape their actions, that's up to them. All I can say definitively is that it has worked well for me.

Hi @TheHENOOB, @Headphaze,

Thanks for the feature suggestion. I agree with @Headphaze that attribution-wise it is good to be as explicit and porominent as possible. We have plans however to rework the current bookmarking feature and turn it into something which would be similar to the playlists you propose. The main idea would be to add the option to create both public and private bookmark lists, and also enable collaboration in the bookmark list creation (so that a list can be edited by a group of users). The whole thing would be renamed to "collections" instead of "bookmarks". Users would be able to download collections as they download packs, and that would include an attribution file similar to that included with pack downloads.

I'd like to work on than sooner than later, but first I need to finish the new UI and be on top of the other thousand things that are going on. But eventually it will happen

Hi,

Thanks for posting this positive message, it is really appreciated!
Here is a list of the changes and new features of the new UI https://freesound.org/help/faq/#what-are-the-new-features-brought-by-the-new-user-interface
The new UI will allow us to add more interesting things to Freesound, and this is actually very exciting

Cheers,

frederic

Nice suggestion, I like it.

Although, you can't really avoid giving individual credits in the game/film if it's a requirement of the CC license. The terms of CCBY and NC require attribution along side the media, so it doesn't really solve that problem...

I know it's simpler and uses less space to give a single blanket credits link that directs to a playlist, but that is not how you should properly attribute. I don't think it's satisfactory to state "sounds used from freesound.org [link to playlist]".

It should look like this for every piece of content used:
https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/attribution/

Interesting idea ! I'll keep it in mind, thank you !

Grouping sounds into one playlist that everyone can look to, similar to the download list but it is manageable by the user, so in case a production such as a Game or Film list all used sounds, only a link to the playlist is needed.

And also add comments for each sound added, detailing where and when it was used in the production.

I don't know if it's a viable/sustainable feature but I wouldn't know if I didn't asked.

A little tip for your next field recording trip: set a countdown (15 minutes or more) on your watch or phone. Every time the alarm goes on, get your recording setup ready and hit record, no matter where you are. Let randomness have a little space.

I am very excited to now have statistics on the total downloads on my profile. Very good!

Whatever terms I search for it leads to an error message saying "There was an error while searching, is your query correct?". A bug or am I missing something?

It's a mouth performance you can find in cartoon sound libraries. Try tags like
plop, plunger, raspberry, splat

I saw on the Stable Audio channel on The Stability AI discord that they are using freesound to train their open source model

Likely at least some of these bots are mining data to train AI models which is neat

https://youtu.be/6Z-wELDFwTc?si=u5zULag1U7h2kxEj&t=174

What games do you use ?

Accessibility-wise, the dark mode can be a barrier for people with certain vision/sensory processing issues. The super black with the super white/red/green contrast is harsh. All white on the other hand can be harsh in terms of brightness, so choosing a dark mode that is more muted and less contrasting could be a better solution. for example, a dark grey with off-white text, and image colours that are less saturated and less extreme against the background (but still immediately discernible from it) will help create a more accessible space for many users without compromising anything for others.

I just discovered that there are more advanced BeepBox spinoffs, like UltraBox, which has many more features.

Originally, I concluded "I think sticking with BeepBox will make this project more accessible to all of us."

However, UltraBox and some of the others can load custom samples, meaning we can make a BeepBox song that uses Freesounds. (EDIT: It is possible, but doing it is a pain and will require us to either hotlink every Freesound we want to use or upload them to another service. I'm asking around to find out the best approach now.)

Their post is from 3 years ago so good luck!

Anyway, Megalovania is already an edit of an edit. It was in the EarthBound Radiation Halloween Hack among others. So the version you hear in Undertale has already been taken as far as it can go without transforming it into something else.

well. IMA DO IT🗿

origin's probably copyrighted

https://beepbox.co/

Ever seen this? It is an online sequencer. You can make beats, loops, and songs with it. It can also save/load songs, but even better, it can store all the data of the song within the URL. The URL updates whenever you change something.

One of us can make a beat or melody, post the resulting URL here, and then someone else can add more to the song, post their new URL, and so on. We can make a song together, and we can also see the history of the song by visiting the old URLs.

What do you guys think?

Well, I started a song/project. Here ya go: Freesound BeepBox Session No.1 (Phase 1)

Feel free to experiment with it. Change whatever you like, play with it, learn how it works. It's pretty fun!