The Freesound Project

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The Freesound Project

Summary

The Freesound Project is a sound archive[1]. It draws 129 Wikipedia views per month (sound_archive category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Freesound Project's instance of is recorded as sound archive[3].
  • The Freesound Project's instance of is recorded as database[4].
  • The Freesound Project's instance of is recorded as online music database[5].
  • The Freesound Project's operator is recorded as Music Technology Group[6].
  • The Freesound Project's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported[7].
  • The Freesound Project's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported[8].
  • The Freesound Project's copyright license is recorded as Creative Commons CC0 License[9].
  • The Freesound Project's has use is recorded as file sharing[10].
  • +2005-04-05T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Freesound Project[11].
  • The Freesound Project's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c7__m[12].
  • The Freesound Project's official website is recorded as http://www.freesound.org/[13].
  • The Freesound Project's readable file format is recorded as MP3[14].
  • The Freesound Project's readable file format is recorded as Free Lossless Audio Codec[15].
  • The Freesound Project's readable file format is recorded as Vorbis[16].
  • The Freesound Project's readable file format is recorded as Audio Interchange File Format Family[17].
  • The Freesound Project's readable file format is recorded as Waveform Audio File Format[18].
  • The Freesound Project's official blog URL is recorded as https://blog.freesound.org[19].
  • The Freesound Project's X is recorded as freesounddev[20].
  • The Freesound Project's Visual Novel Database ID is recorded as s23831[21].
  • The Freesound Project's Quora topic ID is recorded as Freesound[22].
  • The Freesound Project's copyright status is recorded as public domain[23].
  • The Freesound Project's terms of service URL is recorded as https://freesound.org/help/tos_web/[24].
  • The Freesound Project's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+1096'}[25].
  • The Freesound Project's official forum URL is recorded as https://freesound.org/forum/[26].

Body

Founding

+2005-04-05T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Freesound Project[11].

Operations

The Freesound Project's operator is recorded as Music Technology Group[6].

Why It Matters

The Freesound Project draws 129 Wikipedia views per month (sound_archive category, ranking #1 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . freesound.org. freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . blog.freesound.org. Retrieved . blog.freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . freesound.org. Retrieved . freesound.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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