What is Soundsnap?

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

condra's picture
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I guess its pretty much impossible to stop people from uploading badly recorded sounds, but if people rated samples more, it would be easier to discriminate.

Its a shame so much great content is hidden beneath so much badly recorded stuff.

Please dont upload stuff recorded on your laptops built in mic!

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Hi Condra! Welcome to the

Hi Condra!

Welcome to the community and thanks for your input.

People should definitely rate more!

But keep in mind that I can always erase a sound whenever I feel that the quality is really bad and that its bad for the library.

Usually, its forth keeping the sound, just because you don't have that type of sound well recorded in the library, so the badly recorded one is better than nothing. Also, some will argue that one man's junk, is another man's treasure...

Having said that, and coming from an engineering/production backround, I definitely appreciate quality and I'm ready to erase any bad sounds!

So finally, I have to agree: DON'T UPLOAD LOW SOUND QUALITY SOUNDS!

Thanks,

T



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Thanks for the reply

Thanks for the reply Tasos.

There was a file there downloaded 1000 times and had still not been rated. I'll try to rate as many as I can every time I visit the site. Hopefully more people will start rating sounds, perhaps there could be some sort of incentive to do so.

One more thing, a lot of people are uploading effected, rather than dry samples. Theres a lot of "I put this through guitar rig" and "lots of reverb on this". I've no problem with those samples, but the dry version would be great to have too.

I think some clear uploading guidelines would benefit the site.

Sorry to be a moan, I love the site, I just think it has much potential to be the biggest and best of these kind of sites, with a little improvement.

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Thanks Condra. We really

Thanks Condra.

We really depend on user feedback to improve.

Your requests have been heard and I 'll add a link to some 'upload guidelines' to the upload page soon.

I 'm also investigating the possibility of offering incentives for rating...

C u,

T



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BAD OR NOT RATE THE SOUNDS

BAD OR NOT RATE THE SOUNDS PEOPLE!!!!

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Hi guys, I have added some

Hi guys,

I have added some upload guidelines to this page:

http://soundsnap.com/about-tags

There will be a link to here from the upload page saying:
'Uploading for the first time? Make sure you have read our upload quidelines'

This will improve over time.

I wouldn't like to make it much longer than it already is, but I 'm still open to any ideas for it.

Thnx,

T