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

Sampleconstruct's picture
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It would be very useful if there was information about the size of a file not just it´s length. As I tend to upload rather large files (the last one was 50+ MB) some users may want to know what to expect before hitting the download button.

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www.simonstockhausen.com - www.universe-of-sounds.com



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Hi Simon, I generally agree

Hi Simon,

I generally agree on this and a lot of people have asked for it.

But think about it:

We would have to add another two statistics- one for mp3 and one for wav or aif.
That adds considerably to the data load of the page (another 10 stats per page, for a page with 5 sounds). It would also clutter the page visually even more.

I think that us audio people can roughly estimate how big a file is by looking at its length.

So its probably not worth it in my view.

Thanks for your input once more Simon. I 'd like to talk to our coder about this, and see how easy it is to get the data from the mp3 (I know we already have the data from the wav or aif, but we 're not displaying it). But I 'm not entirely convinced that we should show it.

Also, I wanted to thank Dave L who emailed me about this.

Regards,

T