{"id":1379,"date":"2022-01-21T15:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:49:31","slug":"2021-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"2021 in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One year more has passed and here we are with our classic year in numbers<\/em> post in which we give you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. We start by showing some general statistics similar to those shown in previous years’ posts<\/a>, and also extend a bit on a specific topic which, in this year’s post, is about a very commonly asked question: how much disk space do all the sounds in Freesound take?<\/em>. But let’s start at the beginning. The number of new sounds uploaded during 2021<\/strong> was…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

56,783 new sounds!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

which corresponds to…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1075 hours of audio!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

About 10,000 more sounds<\/strong> were uploaded in 2021 than in 2020 and 300 more hours<\/strong> of audio! In last year’s post you’ll see that the increase of sounds was not that high, and the average duration of the sounds had significantly decreased (most probably due to the upload of a large short sounds<\/em> collection), but this year we’re back to the usual average sound duration (which is 66 seconds<\/strong>, by the way), and therefore the hours of audio is big again. We’ve never had this many sounds uploaded in a single year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the license distribution for these 56k newly uploaded sounds? Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The distribution has shifted a bit compared to previous years’ distribution and we can see that the use of CC-BY has increased<\/strong>, in detriment of CC-BY-NC and CC0. We will see in the future if this consolidates into a trend, but it is most probably just part of the yearly variability in the usage of licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the new additions from 2021, Freesound now currently hosts an amazing total of 536,763 sounds<\/strong>, for a total audio length of 345 days and 22 hours<\/strong>. Here is the evolution of the total number of sounds since the beginning of Freesound, and our prediction for the future<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you’ll remember, in May 2021 we reached 500k sounds, and if our prediction is accurate we should be very close to 600k by the end of 2022<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a tag cloud of the tags of the sounds uploaded during 2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The usual big tags<\/em> as still big (field-recording<\/strong>, music<\/strong>, loop<\/strong>, synth<\/strong>, …), but tags like nature<\/strong>, ambience<\/strong>, hand<\/strong>, and drum<\/strong> seem to be much bigger this year when compared to the past year. The exceptional high usage of the tags hand<\/strong> and drum<\/strong> seems to be because of the contributions by stoltingmediagroup<\/a>, who has uploaded more than 11k sounds this year (see below), including various packs of hand percussion instruments and drum sounds. The increased usage of the tags nature <\/strong> and ambience <\/strong>is probably due to the contributions by klankbeeld<\/a>, who has also uploaded many more sounds than usual this year. Here are some examples of these sounds uploaded by stoltingmediagroup and klankbeeld:<\/p>\n\n\n\n