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Add to SafariWhen comparing Freesound vs Scirra Asset Store, the Slant community recommends Freesound for most people. In the question“What are the best sources of royalty free game assets?” Freesound is ranked 5th while Scirra Asset Store is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Freesound is:
All assets made available through Freesound are required to be licensed under either CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC.
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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.
Pro Bundles available
Buy multiple royalty free assets in bundles at a discount.
Pro Supports lots of world currencies
GBP, USD, Euros. CAD, RUB, AUD and lots more.
Pro All assets licensed with the same Royalty Free License
Makes it easy and safe to buy all assets.
Pro Ease of use for vendors
The Scirra store is particularly easy to use for asset vendors - an approved vendor can upload a new asset in a matter of minutes, version and sub-version handling is handled simply, and demoing and feedback of products can be handled by Scirra's existing (and also very easy-to-use) infrastructure, such as the Arcade and forum. The review process for assets is very efficient, despite ensuring a high quality of content.
Pro Browse through pack contents
The site allows to browse the packs content without purchasing first.
Pro Frequent sales
Pro Can easily see what you are going to buy
The assets are displayed well and easy to browse.
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.
Con Audio samples and sound effects only
Freesound does not host any kind of non-audio asset.
Choice of music is also scant.
Con Asset license is restricted to 1 commercial project
Scirra uses a proprietary license for their store, which disallows using any asset in more than 1 commercial project unless the license is re-purchased. Free projects are excluded from this restriction, and it does not apply to assets purchased under an exclusive license.
