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Started October 13th, 2022 · 10 replies · Latest reply by balloonhead 1 week, 4 days ago

jasonlee3071

29 sounds

3 posts

3 years, 4 months ago Edited: 3 years, 4 months ago
#1

For a good source of free audio there is pixabay.
No attribution required and as I said free.
Does anyone here have anything on this site?
I myself have contributed a few recordings already.
https://pixabay.com/

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. George Lucas
balloonhead

239 sounds

135 posts

3 years, 4 months ago
#2

I did not contribute, they just took my sounds here from freesound and rehostet it. This counts for the public domain sounds smile

My Music | My Musicchannel |
ErynKnight

58 sounds

1 post

3 years, 3 months ago Edited: 3 years, 3 months ago
#3

Yeah I know a lot of artists that see their stolen work on Pixabay. I don't allow my sounds to be hosted there because for me, it's about the community, not some sketchy site that lets their users exploit our work without credit, gratitude, or consequence.

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LiamEvans210

0 sounds

2 posts

2 years, 11 months ago Edited: 2 years ago
#4

This is absolutely amazing!
sonnerie: https://sonneriesgratuite.com/

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deleted_user_14745505

0 sounds

23 posts

2 years, 11 months ago Edited: 2 years, 11 months ago
#5

I tried to upload some of my sounds but didn't meet the quality requirements or something. I post amateur erotic sounds so that could be why.

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Ericbarker306

0 sounds

1 post

2 years, 10 months ago Edited: 2 years, 10 months ago
#6

Thanks for sharing, ive been looking for a place to find BG music for when i stream. Absolutely gonna browse that site!

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gedet33

0 sounds

7 posts

2 years, 9 months ago Edited: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
#7

It's really interesting, thanks for sharing.

Sadiquecat

3,492 sounds

486 posts

2 weeks, 2 days ago
#8

In the discord, a user reported seeing some re-uploads from Freesound on Pixabay
There's an account called "freesound_community" from October 24, 2024 dedicated to re-uploads.
https://pixabay.com/users/46691455/?tab=sound-effects&order=latest&pagi=1

I think they just re-upload CC0 sounds so should be ok.
I searched popular CC-BY sounds and a popular user here who mostly uploads in CC-BY. I didn't find any so seems all good.
With a quick search, I didn't find any other accounts re-uploading. I didn't search very deep at all.

CC0 Be a hero.
Cat-Fox_Alex

794 sounds

3 posts

2 weeks ago Edited: 2 weeks ago
#9

Pixbay is really not a careful sound moderating web!
Their moderator even don't ask which sample you used! I was used some sounds that from unrestributable sample packs to make sound fx and uploaded them to this web. And I even used hacked flstudio to make some sound fxs and uploaded them to this web before 2023. ( I have bought flstudio in 2025 and some plugin in kiloheart's web now.)

My first time notice the importance of copyright is when I uploaded sounds to Freesound, moderator qubodup asked and banded all my sounds that produced with unknown source sounds. Freeaound really taught me so lot! And helped me so lot!
I can tell you Freesound is the best sound gathering place in the world! Freesound is not only has sound effects but also many sounds that can provide research value for all of humans!

I don't mean that Pixbay's users are all untrustworthy, there also has sound producers full with passion too. But I just think that Pixbay's moderating is really not strict enough.

I LOVE FREESOUND!

balloonhead

239 sounds

135 posts

1 week, 4 days ago
#10

Today I've gone through 175 pages of voice samples uploaded by this member. 46 of them are my voice. I created an account and added all of them to a public playlist "Voice of ballOOnhead666" smile

My Music | My Musicchannel |
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