Author Archives: bdejong

Private message spam…

Posted on February 24, 2013 by bdejong

Hi all, It looks like the private message spammers have really started liking us lately. Almost daily I’m deleting spammers. For now the best is to “report as spam” as soon as you get a spam message: if more than … Continue reading →

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The new gold standard for freesound descriptions

Posted on February 7, 2013 by bdejong

Hello all, It’s not always easy to describe your sound files, we know. Hoever, we did want to let you know that even we at freesound are impressed at this example of a perfect description. The uploader describes the recording … Continue reading →

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Sons de Barcelona (Sounds of Barcelona) needs your votes!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by bdejong

A note from our friends running Sounds of Barcelona: “Our Sounds of Barcelona project is participating in a EU contest for best innovations related to technological iniciatives with an educational and social impact. The  project Sons de Barcelona was created … Continue reading →

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Looking for: movie/video work using freesound (with correct credits)

Posted on February 16, 2012 by bdejong

Hello all, On the 23rd of March I will be talking at the International Film Forum in Udine-Gorizia, Italy. My talk will be about freesound in general and its usage in Film/Video. I’m looking for additional examples of correctly credited Freesound usage in … Continue reading →

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Yes, … we know (spam).

Posted on January 29, 2012 by bdejong

Hello everyone, Yes, we know. Freesound is under a MASSIVE spammer attack. We’re discussing internally how we will handle this situation. Just deleting the spam message isn’t enough as those &*%$%! spammers are creating spam quicker than we can delete … Continue reading →

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OPEN CALL: European exchange on sound pedagogy, The City Rings

Posted on November 22, 2011 by bdejong

The City Rings is looking for new partners in Europe who are interested in exchanging through sound, and sound pedagogy. The City Rings is an international sound pedagogy project initially started by Aifoon, MTG / Sons de Barcelona, and Sound&Music; … Continue reading →

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Experiencing some problems…

Posted on October 4, 2011 by bdejong

Hello all, a quick blog post to tell you all we are currently experiencing some problems with freesound. We’re very busy trying to figure out what exactly is going wrong and it looks like our database server is badly configured… … Continue reading →

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Email queue trouble, your emails will arrive late…

Posted on September 16, 2011 by bdejong

Service announcement! We’ve been experiencing some problems with the email queue on freesound because we’re sending too many emails. Practically this means that your activation / password reset / … emails might arrive a bit later. Give it some extra hours. … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Freesound 2!

Posted on September 8, 2011 by bdejong

Dear Freesounders, For more than a year now we’ve been promising you an upgrade of freesound. Dates got shifted into the future, things took (much) longer than expected, … About half a year ago everything shifted into higher gear when … Continue reading →

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Looking for designers / css / html people

Posted on April 1, 2011 by bdejong

Hello everyone, for freesound2 we are looking for more designers/css/html people. If you feel like helping out (for free!), please let me know as soon as possible… – bram

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