The Freesound Blog

Hi everyone! Another year has passed and here we are with our 2023 Sustainability Report! In this post you’ll find an update about how 2023 went for Freesound in terms of sustainability, and al...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=2051

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce that we have just released a new feature that will allow you to display the results of a search query on a map. Under the “advanced search” settings pane...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=2025

Hi everyone, It happened again! Another year has passed so it is time to show you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. As usual, we start by showing some general statistics sim...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1988

Hi everyone, We are very happy to announce that finally, after years of work, we are able to release the new Freesound user interface (UI) codenamed Beast Whoosh (or BW, or Freesound 3). It was e...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1895

Hi everyone, We announce to you the launch of our web experiment Freesound Taxonomies on an sound taxonomy for Freesound. The Freesound Taxonomies experiment is a listening test in which you ar...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1813

Dear Freesounders, Welcome to our 2022 Sustainability Report! Here we give an update on how 2022 went for Freesound in terms of sustainability, and present our plans for 2023. You’ll see that m...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1690

With great sorrow we part from Friedhelm Hans “Freed” Hartmann upon his tragic death, and provide this tribute to Freed and his many activities including his strong … Continue reading →

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1624

Hi everyone, I know it has been a while since the last update regarding the new Beast Whoosh user interface that we’ve been working on for the last… 5 years already! Well, now we’re getting...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1573

The “SSE” sound effects come from the Sunset Editorial collection which was donated to USC Cinema in 1990. Sunset Editorial had a low-key history in Hollywood. Not a lot is known about them....

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1515

Hi everyone, 2023 is here and that means it is time for us to grab our year in numbers calculator and show you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. As usual, we start by showin...

https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1445