Freesound via ccMixter (20k free sounds)

Mike Linksvayer, July 8th, 2006

ccMixter maestro Victor Stone summarizes the good news:

The freesound
project is a web site for collecting tiny audio snippets and
samples and sharing them under a Creative Commons license for use in
larger audio works such as soundtracks, original material and oh yea,
remixes. In just over the first year of operation they accumulated
almost 20,000 samples of every shape, size and variety.

ccMixter is a site sponsored by
Creative Commons that specializes in hosting remixes all under CC
license and has the special ability to track the sources of the
remixes. In almost two years of operation, ccMixter has had nearly
5,000 uploads from producers using samples from their own libraries,
ccMixter itself and of course the freesound project.

It was only a matter time the two sites work together. Remixers from
ccMixter that use samples from the freesound project can now track the
sources of the remix back to freesound (and soon viceversa). You can
see this in action with teru’s remix of “ href="http://ccmixter.org/media/files/teru/6395">Ophelia’s Song”
which includes electric guitar parts and an a cappella from ccMixter
as well as a sample of a train passing and a href="http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=8384">nylon
guitar pluck all of which are linked to from teru’s remix page.

On a technical note: The underlying technology is based on an open
programmer’s interface first published by Creative Commons via
ccMixter called href="http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml">Sample
Pools. CC is continuing to recruit other sites with CC licensed
music to expand the pool. Every installation of href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost">ccHost (the open
source code project that ccMixter runs on) is already enabled for
Sample Pools.