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Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's.

It was originally started by a small group of sound people from all over the world. Our common belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not.

Our users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too.

What Soundsnap is NOT:

  • An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
  • A place to upload your band's songs or your favourite mp3's. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
  • A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.

We encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping us make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap.

We are looking for feedback from the community to constantly improve, and we depend on our users for that. So please feel free to leave a recommendation or feedback in the special section of our forum.

I hope you enjoy your time here and Happy Snapping!

Tasos Frantzolas
Soundsnap Founder

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Managing a very large sample collection
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mission1
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 Joined: 2007-07-15

Hey,

This is a great site! I have the totally crazy hobby of collecting sounds. I have about 500,000 right now. I look forward to adding some more from this site and donating a few of my own.

For Mac users, check out AudioFinder. It makes managing the sample collection so easy it is ridiculous.

http://www.icedaudio.com

Anyhow, hope see the site expand...

‹ What microphone for recording sound effects ? force MP3 to download instead of playing ›

Submitted by mission1 on Sun, 2007-07-15 00:50. login or register to post comments

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tasos
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Hey mission. Welcome to the

Hey mission.

Welcome to the community.

I am totally blown away by the number of sounds that you 've mentioned...!

Are these original sounds- made and recorded by you? Or are they found in commercial libraries..? As you probably know, we only allow copyright holders to contribute their own sounds.

In any case, I hope you enjoy your time here. Happy Snapping!


Sun, 2007-07-15 17:10 login or register to post comments

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mission1
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Hi, 90% are commercial

Hi,

90% are commercial libraries I have purchased. I can't resist buying sounds. I would never dream of uploading a commercial sound. I have rolled my own sounds too, some of those I will upload shortly.

500,000 or so is a really easy number to arrive at. The other day, I downloaded some sounds from another sample site and ended up picking up 35,000 new sounds. So it is really easy to get a lot of sounds fast. The problem is I probably have thousands of duplicated. I know I must have a least 1000 808 kick drums to weed out. I've been collecting sounds online since 1994....


Sun, 2007-07-15 23:22 login or register to post comments

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tasos
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OK, Thats fine. But please

OK,

Thats fine. But please keep the commercial sounds out of Soundsnap and upload only the original ones.


Mon, 2007-07-16 12:43 login or register to post comments

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HardPCM
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WOW, but to detect

WOW, but to detect duplicated file there is
program on the net I think, else if you
know programming just make something
to scan and found them :)

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Fri, 2007-07-20 00:37 login or register to post comments

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I actually just did a pretty

I actually just did a pretty good cleaning out when it comes to samples on my hard drive.. All those little .wav files add up.


Wed, 2007-10-03 03:48 login or register to post comments

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clandestine
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Hi, I have around 10,000 wav

Hi, I have around 10,000 wav samples on my hard drive, all from original sources.
The trick is to always name files descriptively, thus allowing you to use the Windows Explorer search function to easily find samples.
For example a great drum break might be labeled 'Live Funk Break-Top Hits vol.1 track2.WAV', so you know what it sounds like and where it's from - this also means you can text search your library by terms such as 'break', 'hits' or 'funk'.
Hey, and don't forget to back your library up!
Regards 'C'

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Sun, 2007-10-21 10:40 login or register to post comments