I Love Sharing...

There's a really great website that I feel the extreme urge to plug. It's called Freesound, and it is a soundfile sharing site that is under a Creative Commons license. This means that you are free to use these sounds as you like (with some minor restrictions, such as attribution).

Freesound also encourages it's users to upload files. I've used quite a few field recordings from freesound in episodes of The Radio Project, but until yesterday, haven't uploaded a single thing. It's quite fun to plow through the hours upon hours of audio that I've generated, and then selecting small snippets that are finely tuned and crafted for sharing. I will probably become addicted to it!

In other, slightly related news, I decided to take up those annoying pledge drive announcers and acctually donate some cash to a local independent station, KKFI. It feels good to share!

Links:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
http://creativecommons.org