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Freesound in the era of generative Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, the phrase Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become part of our everyday conversations. In particular, since the explosion of generative AI models like ChatGPT or other models that can generate high-quality audio (e.g. AudioGen, AudioLDM 2, and Stable … Continue reading

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Sustainability report 2023

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 also we’ll let you know about our … Continue reading

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New feature: map search

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 panel, you’ll now find a … Continue reading

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2023 in numbers

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 similar to those shown in previous years’ posts, … Continue reading

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Welcome to the new Freesound!

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 early 2017 when we first … Continue reading

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Sustainability Report 2022

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 most of the information is very similar to … Continue reading

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New user interface pre-release

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 reaaaally close to the final … Continue reading

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2022 in numbers

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 showing some general statistics similar … Continue reading

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Maintenance downtime(s), Thursday 28th April 13:30-16:00 CEST [done]

Dear Freesounders, Today there’ll be intermittent downtimes between 13:30 and 16:00 CEST due to maintenance tasks. We’ll let you know when all maintenance tasks are done! Cheers, edit: all maintenance tasks finished and we’re back to normality

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Updating Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Creative Commons licenses

[EDIT: new Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy have just been released and are accessible through the links below] Hi everyone, This post is to let you know that have been working on an updated Privacy Policy and … Continue reading

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