The Freesound Project, is a succes no doubt about it! The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, all free to download, copyright free and released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.

Today I’ve received a newsletter email from them with several news and since it passed some time since Bram sended one, it’s worth being taking in consideration:

1. Freesound has now over 500,000 active members. Now, that’s something … this site is getting closer to a social networking monster, but with people that have a passion for the sounds.
2. Freesound is close to 50,000 free samples (45734), that’s about 1 audio file per 10 people right? So if you have some original sounds you want to share with others please go for it and let us know … we also did our part
3. Freesound is looking for universities and institutions who can help them with mirroring the content of the website. If you have a lot of bandwidth and a spare server lying around, please contact Freesound here.
4. Another great news is that Google Research gave Freesound a 50,000 USD research grant, last year in December. This is a no-strings-attached proposal, so they decided to start a complete rewrite of Freesound, meaning that Freesound version 2.0 is close.

To follow all development of Freesound 2.0, codename Nightingale - and for more in-depth news about Freesound have finally started a blog (I’m already subscribed).

If you are afan or if you want to support Freesound then you can buy a T-Shirt and 5 EUR goes to Freesound, so get yours here:
http://freesound.spreadshirt.net (EU countries)
http://freesound.spreadshirt.com (US and non EU countries)

PS: Do not forget to check out our Kreativ Sounds samples from Freesound Project and give us some comments …