Freesound (and API) - Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers
We develop a large number of software tools and hosting infrastructures to support the research developed at the Department. We will be detailing in this section the different tools available. You can take a look for the moment at the offer available within the UPF Knowledge Portal, the innovations created in the context of EU projects in the Innovation Radar and the software sections of some of our research groups:
Artificial Intelligence |
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis |
Web Research |
Music Technology |
Interactive Technologies |
Barcelona MedTech |
Natural Language Processing |
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis |
UbicaLab |
Wireless Networking |
Educational Technologies |
Freesound (and API) - Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers
Freesound - Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers
Freesound is a community-driven repository of sound samples that was started in 2005 in our research group. One of the first aims behind Freesound was creating an open database of sounds that could also be used for scientific research. Currently, Freesound is one of the most popular sound sharing sites in the world. Freesound (and the Freesound API) is being maintained and developed at the MTG by the Freesound team, which is basically composed by current and former researchers and students of the research group.
With the Freesound API you can browse, search, and retrieve information about Freesound.org users, packs, and the sounds themselves of course. You can find similar sounds to a given target (based on content analysis) and retrieve automatically extracted features from audio files, as well as perform advanced queries combining content analysis features and other metadata (tags, etc...). With the Freesound API, you can also upload, comment, rate and bookmark sounds.