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

lyrialzander's picture
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Attention all sound manipulators!

I am having a contest on YouTube for the theme song for my cartoon
Emo Emily: The Animated Series
The deadline is April 10th
I would really love to have some of your guys involved.
I did not find soundsnap.com until after I had launched the contest, otherwise I probably would ave used one of the many great choices found here!
Check out the link below for more information!
Or email me at
emoemilyshow@gmail.com
Emo Emily Theme Song Contest

I would prefer that the theme song have a harder, punk sound to it, but I'm flexible :D
Thanks, you guys ROCK!



tasos's picture
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Hey Squid, The contest is

Hey Squid,

The contest is for the theme song, not the video..!

Got it? :-)



squid's picture
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TASOS the video post on

TASOS the video post on youtube states to submit a VIDEO to enter the contest for the THEME SONG...DUHh... did you watch the video?!! do you realy think i'm that stupid...! insulting your users is not good for the site overall...



squid's picture
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lyialzander...what if a

lyialzander...what if a person doesn't do video? can they still compete?

p.s. thanx for the EVENTS post on soundsnap...i never would have known a bought the contest otherwise...
squid



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I 'm sorry Squid. To be

I 'm sorry Squid. To be honest, I didn't watch the whole thing.

I didn't think you were stupid at all. Its just that sometimes things are lost because of a language barrier. Although you live in the States, it doesn't mean that English is your first language- to me it isn't, so I assume that it might not be for you either.

I had a feeling you might mean something else, but I thought that you would explain if you did (like you did!)

In any case, I didn't mean to insult you, and if I did, I 'm sorry.



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tasos..appology

tasos..appology accepted...all's good!