{"id":942,"date":"2019-01-11T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=942"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T15:52:43","slug":"2018-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"2018 in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear all,<\/p>\n

Following the tradition of the last years, here are some statistics about the use of Freesound during 2018 \ud83d\ude42 . The statistics are presented following the same structure as in 2016′<\/a>s and 2017′<\/a>s post, with a special focus on analyzing sound ratings at the very end.? But let’s start from the beginning: the number of new sounds<\/strong> uploaded during 2018 is (drum roll<\/a>)…<\/p>\n

36,006 new sounds!<\/h1>\n

which corresponds to…<\/p>\n

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

Awesome isn’t it? That is about 500 less sounds than last year, but almost 40 more hours of audio! On average, uploaded sounds in 2018 are 6 seconds longer than in 2017<\/strong>, and in 2017 sounds were already 5 seconds longer than in 2016. Why is this happening? No idea, but we’ll see if the tendency continues next year…<\/p>\n

Now let’s look at the distribution of licenses of these 36k uploaded sounds:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s indeed quite similar to last year’s distribution, but?Creative Commons 0 <\/strong>(CC0) has gained an extra 3% in detriment of Creative Commons Attribution<\/strong> Noncommercial <\/strong>(CC-BY-NC). Creative Commons Attribution<\/strong> (CC-BY) stays at 25%. It’s good to see how many sounds are being shared in the public domain.<\/p>\n

As we predicted in 2017 in numbers<\/a> post, this year Freesound has passed the mark of 400k uploaded sounds<\/strong> (although it happened at the very end of the year!). That’s bringing us closer to the half a million mark but there’s still long road ahead for that. Here you can see the evolution of the total number of sounds hosted in Freesound since the beginning of time<\/em> (see the last dot right above 400k):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, if you wanted to embark on the task of listening to all sounds uploaded to Freesound it would now take<\/strong> 242 days and 16 hours<\/strong>! Don’t try and do it yourself, instead let’s take this opportunity to thank our amazing team of moderators<\/strong> who do indeed listen to countless sounds and make all this possible: qubodup<\/a>, InspectorJ<\/a>, parabolix<\/a>, Erdie<\/a>, Headphaze<\/a>, tim.kahn<\/a>, philsapphire<\/a>, AlienXXX<\/a> and balloonhead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s now look at the tagcloud of the sounds uploaded during this year:<\/p>\n

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Again field-recording<\/strong> is the king, and many of the other typical frequently-used tags are also visible here: ambience <\/strong>(sharing the glory with ambient<\/strong>), synth<\/strong>, loop<\/strong>, electronic<\/strong>, etc. Not many big changes in that area, at least changes that can be easily spotted. Maybe for a future freesound in numbers<\/em> blog post we’ll have a deeper look at this tag cloud.<\/p>\n

Here is the ranking of uploaders<\/strong> by number of sounds and by duration of uploaded sounds. Yeah, this is what you were waiting for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nUsername<\/b><\/td>\n# uploaded sounds<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\nUsername<\/b><\/td>\nuploaded time (hours)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#1<\/b><\/td>\nkyles<\/td>\n3284<\/td>\n#1<\/b><\/td>\nkyles<\/td>\n113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#2<\/b><\/td>\ncraigsmith<\/td>\n1233<\/td>\n#2<\/b><\/td>\nawaka<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#3<\/b><\/td>\nfrederic.font<\/td>\n514<\/td>\n#3<\/b><\/td>\ncsengeri<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#4<\/b><\/td>\n@realdavidfloat<\/td>\n509<\/td>\n#4<\/b><\/td>\nklankbeeld<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#5<\/b><\/td>\nawaka<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n#5<\/b><\/td>\ncraigsmith<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#6<\/b><\/td>\ndeleted_user_2731495<\/td>\n297<\/td>\n#6<\/b><\/td>\nkevp888<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#7<\/b><\/td>\nGreek555<\/td>\n287<\/td>\n#7<\/b><\/td>\ngis_sweden<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#8<\/b><\/td>\ngis_sweden<\/td>\n279<\/td>\n#8<\/b><\/td>\nRoses1401<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#9<\/b><\/td>\npenetrermind<\/td>\n263<\/td>\n#9<\/b><\/td>\ntim.kahn<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#10<\/b><\/td>\nAudioPapkin<\/td>\n262<\/td>\n#10<\/b><\/td>\ninchadney<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#11<\/b><\/td>\nJaszunio15<\/td>\n251<\/td>\n#11<\/b><\/td>\nGreek555<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#12<\/b><\/td>\nAnthousai<\/td>\n230<\/td>\n#12<\/b><\/td>\njanrou<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#13<\/b><\/td>\njavapimp<\/td>\n220<\/td>\n#13<\/b><\/td>\nfelix.blume<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#14<\/b><\/td>\ntoiletrolltube<\/td>\n217<\/td>\n#14<\/b><\/td>\nwjoojoo<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#15<\/b><\/td>\nkevp888<\/td>\n210<\/td>\n#15<\/b><\/td>\nsoundX360<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#16<\/b><\/td>\narnaud coutancier<\/td>\n210<\/td>\n#16<\/b><\/td>\nMartin.Sadoux<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#17<\/b><\/td>\nproyectosonidosias<\/td>\n197<\/td>\n#17<\/b><\/td>\nhimura.kazuto<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#18<\/b><\/td>\nMattix<\/td>\n194<\/td>\n#18<\/b><\/td>\nGlen_Hoban<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#19<\/b><\/td>\nSoundholder<\/td>\n190<\/td>\n#19<\/b><\/td>\nPleasureKing<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
#20<\/b><\/td>\nDirtyArchives<\/td>\n184<\/td>\n#20<\/b><\/td>\nDiegolar<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This time we have the same winner<\/em> in both rankings, user kyles<\/a> with 3284 uploaded sounds corresponding to 113 hours of audio. A thing that the 3 users in the top ranking of # uploaded sounds have in common is that they all used the new bulk describe feature<\/a> that was introduced last June \ud83d\ude42 . For those who don’t know, uploading full sound collections now is easier with this tool. Just like craigsmith<\/a> did with the USC optical sound effects library<\/a>, and kyles<\/a> is doing with his own recorded professional collection. In any case, it’s simply marvelous that there are so many contributions from so many users<\/strong>. On behalf of the Freesound user community and everyone that uses Freesound, huge thanks to all uploaders!<\/strong> You know our twitter timeline<\/a> is full of people really grateful to all of you right?<\/p>\n

Let’s continue with some quick numbers about downloads.?The number of sound downloads (including packs) during 2018 was…<\/p>\n

19,010,374 downloads!<\/h1>\n

So yes, that’s beating records again, with 2.5M more downloads than last year:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We’ll see what happens next year, but it doesn’t look like these numbers are going to get any lower. Freesound accumulates now more than 129M downloads<\/strong>! And how could you maximize the number of downloads of your sounds? Look at the cloud of query terms to see what people is searching for:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Again, not many changes with respect to the last year. wind<\/strong>, music<\/strong>, explosion<\/strong> and whoosh<\/strong> are again in the first positions, although a sudden interest for piano<\/strong> and car <\/strong> seems to have appeared. Remember that there are around 150k queries per day<\/strong>, so there’s really room for everyone here!<\/p>\n

Finally, we’d like to finish this post with some more general statistics. In 2018, you’ve exchanged 19k messages<\/strong>, 1.4k forum posts<\/strong> and made?44k sound comments<\/strong>. These numbers are very similar to those of 2017. Regarding sound ratings, this year there have been 158k sound ratings<\/strong>, which confirms a tendency of increasing ratings from 2016 and 2017. Here we show the histogram of the number of ratings per sound:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This histogram should be read like ?50% of the sounds in Freesound have never been rated?<\/em>, ?5% have been rated 3 times?<\/em>, and so on. Even though the average number of ratings per sound (dashed line) is of 3.5, this is just because a few sounds have been rated many times. This is similar to what happens with the number of downloads and that we reported last year in the 2017 in numbers<\/a> post. However, in this case the number of ratings is much lower than the number of downloads<\/strong> \ud83d\ude41 .? In old Freesound times we used to show a popup asking for a rating right after downloading and this resulted in many more sounds being rated. We’ll have to think whether or not something like this could be re-added to Freesound, specially now that we’re re-thinking and updating the whole Freesound interface… Another interesting aspect about ratings is to look at the histogram of the average rating value per sound:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What this figure shows is that sounds are typically rated very high <\/strong>(average of 4 stars), so users normally rate a sound only when they like it, but do not use low ratings to penalize<\/em> sounds they dislike. Interesting food for thought, should we forget about 5-star rating system a move into a binary like\/dislike option?<\/p>\n

Aaaand that’s it for this year’s post. We hope you found it interesting. Thanks for reading and enjoy a 2019 full of sounds!<\/p>\n

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frederic, on behalf of the?Freesound Team<\/p>\n

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EDIT:<\/strong>?after writing the post Alastair suggested me the idea of ?making a summary of the Freesound year in audio. Good news is that I already developed a tool some time ago that would make just that automatically \ud83d\ude42 I set myself to run the tool and record the output… and here it is the Freesound 2018 in Sounds:<\/em><\/p>\n