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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

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joshua917
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 Joined: 2007-12-05

What are the limits on file size? What is considered an acceptable file size? When I record on my Zoom H4, using pretty good WAV resolution, I end up with nice sounding samples that end up at 5 MB min size. My samples also tend to be longer than those I've found here. I find it more useful to have the freedom to fade out an ambience gradually, rather than play it only for 2 seconds and abruptly end it.

What are the rules for file size and duration?

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Submitted by joshua917 on Thu, 2007-12-06 08:24. login or register to post comments

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tasos
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 Joined: 2007-07-02
I believe that our limit is

I believe that our limit is somewhere around 4 or 5 minutes at the moment for a 16 bit/44.1 KHz wav or aif file- it has to do with filesize. But I 'll have to check and get back to you (I cant remember where that setting is!).


Thu, 2007-12-06 13:58 login or register to post comments