Quality Control

As you probably read in news sites, or in this post, we have been bringing many high quality sounds for free to the community lately.

However, this brings us in a position that we have to preserve the quality of the library with even greater care than before. I have two ideas in order to do that:

- 1) To allow sounds only after administration. Up until now low quality sounds have been deleted after being uploaded, which is worse for the uploader and for downloaders. Administration would require myself and/or other members of the community to 'approve' the sounds before being published. That would mean disapproving sounds that are not properly recorded/edited and don't have proper descriptions and tagging.

Criteria are going to be a bit subjective, but thats how it always is. Feedback can be provided via email in order for users to know what they can do to improve.

- 2) To enable a 'user feedback' feature, similar to Ebay's system. This would essentially be a 'user rating', instead of a sound rating. Up until now, the rating system for sounds hasn't been very successful. There are simply too many sounds and too little time- most people never rate sounds and thats the reality.

By having a 'user feedback' system, people will be able to rate users so that a professional sound designer has a better 'score' than a young student thats just starting out. We can then create an algorithm so that their sounds appear higher in search results and/or so you can sort results 'by user feedback'.

This is not a matter of competition between users, but would only serve to bring better search results and searching criteria to users.

I 'd like to hear what your opinions are about the above.

Thnx

About Tags:
1-field-recording, field recording, “field recording”
which would be the accurate one, when uploading?
I searched all, and found files related.
2-is there a way to get all-tags used at soundsnap? so we can see if
bird is more used than birds or
cry …crying
race…racing
3-my late upload is about “car sounds”, but related to a specific race-category, TurismoCarrtera, which is similar to “Nascar or DTM”, but NOT them.
the question is, beyond tagging as TurismoC…, should I add “Nascar and/or…”

rfhache

add: when i say "i don't want only perfect loops", i don't mean, that i like
totally overcompressed (without any sense), bad edited loops with much dc-offset.

Done.

I have also deleted a couple more sounds from that profile.
Thanks Simon.

Whoever wants to help out with cleaning up the library, can post links to low quality sounds or email me at soundsnap@gmail.com, if you wish to remain anonymous.

The final decision will be taken by me and usually an email will be sent to the contributor in the case of sounds being deleted.

Hi gmany03,

Welcome and thanks for sharing! First of all, don't worry for your own work- your loops are sounding fine and won't get deleted! :-)

But to answer your questions:

We need the mp3 format for playback- thats how our system works. Most people will download he aif or wav, so dont worry about that. People know that the mp3 preview on the player has lower quality and they are more forgiving.

About lo-fi loops, we will mostly allow them, when it comes to musical sounds.
We want to allow any kind of artistic expression that is done intentionally (I can usually tell, or we can know that form the description). But I won't put up with people that don't take the time to edit or mix properly and pollute the library with junk. Hope that make sense.

For recorded sound effects, we are are also very strict, since we don't want to mix our professional quality sounds with inferior recordings, as it is done on most sharing sites.

how a bought a "bin" that holds the newly uploaded files(waiting for the o.k.)that other users can search/select rite away... (unaproved files wating for aproval... or something) and are held for a "small" amount of time before the final o.k. is given... or not..after wich thay are moved to the main categorys of sounds... for all to see & use...win/win for every one... :-) users can grab a file before it "mite" be rejected if it soots their needs... over all high quality control is still maintaned...

p.s. date indexing at time of upload would be a nice feature (for all to see)