Freesound Review

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Pros

Pro
Creative Commons licensing

All assets made available through Freesound are required to be licensed under either CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC.

Pro
Extensive asset information

Each sample has a details page which includes a waveform view, a full-length audio preview, user-assigned tags, author-assigned "pack" grouping, and an author chain ("remixes and sources") for derivative assets.

Cons

Con
Some assets may have restrictive licenses

Freesound permits uploaders to select the CC-BY license, which disallows the use of DRM, and the CC-BY-NC license, which disallows commercial use entirely. Licenses are prominently displayed on an asset's details page, and represented by a small icon in list views, but there is no option to filter by asset when searching or browsing.