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The new gold standard for freesound descriptions

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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Better search, better Freesound!

Hello everyone, today we have updated Freesound search functionalities with some improvements we have been working on in the last weeks. First of all, we have added a new sorting algorithm that automatically sorts the search results according to their … Continue reading

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aaaand we’re back!

The Freesound team proudly announces that we have finished the migration and are finally back! If you find any bugs or broken things please report them in the forums or using the contact form. Thank you for your patience and … Continue reading

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Migration to new machines!

Hello everyone! the server that is currently hosting Freesound is getting older and has realised that time has arrived to leave this job for younger and faster machines. For that reason tomorrow (thursday 25th of October) we’re migrating Freesound to … Continue reading

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The fear of the dares !

Be afraid!…. Be very afraid! Because the Dares are back! And this month we celebrate Halloween so we await for your scary entries… if YOU dare! Muaah ah ah ah ah ! http://www.freesound.org/forum/dare-the-community/32980/

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New feature: Spam reports

Hello everyone, some months ago we introduced a new anti-spam measure to reduce the amount of spam in the forums. This has been working quite well, but we are aware that there is still spam out there and we have … Continue reading

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Email back to normal!

As you may have read in previous posts, email has been quite a nightmare for us during the last few weeks. The problem was triggered by successive changes in the limits of the service we were using, of which we … Continue reading

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Sounds of Science

In the frame of the Campus Gutenberg event, organized by the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), there is an open call for recording sounds related to science and upload them to Freesound. How do you think science may sound? chemistry, mathematics, … Continue reading

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Email sloooowly recovering

During the days our server was banned, we accumulated a large pile of unsent email. Yet, in order to avoid being banned again, we have to send these at a very slow rate. Unfortunately during this process some emails have … Continue reading

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Email broken

As many of you have noticed, email from Freesound is currently not working. This means that it is not possible to register, and that emails related with the forum, comments and private messages are not being sent. The problem is … Continue reading

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