Freesound

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Classification: 
General-purpose collaborative systems to make music
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Description: 
It is a database for sounds files licensed under Creative Commons, it has also been used in educational settings. The sounds cover different subjects: from field recordings (soundscapes) up to synthesized sounds: they are associated with tags (Freesound offers tagging and geo-tagging), to perform research based on content. It allows viewing of the waveform and the spectral centroid of audio signals. The sounds can be retrieved using semantic descriptors.
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Freesound has a very large users community, that includes professional musicians, sound designers, and amateurs.