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

fiasco's picture
Posts: 8
Joined: 2008-03-25

Hi, what about the possibility to upload a small 640/480 png/jpg pic along with some sounds where it may be appropriate? For example the recording installation, the dog which barks, the creek, the crowd, the room or whatever. Just for orientation.



Tasos's picture
Posts: 814
Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi again Fiasco, Thats a

Hi again Fiasco,

Thats a pretty cool idea.

However, it could compromise our design, since many/most sounds won't have a photo to go with them and some photos might not be that great. The Soundsnap community consists of sound and music people, not photographers (most of us at least!). :-)

Also, I personally like the magic of having only audio and imagine the rest..!

So the answer is probably 'no' for now. But its a cool idea to keep for the future.