Freesound Integration

Posted February 2nd, 2007 by lritter

In my quest to equip Aldrin with some serious collaboration features, I spent the past week adding support for The Freesound Project.

What is freesound? The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. You can browse, preview, comment and ultimately download more than 20.000 samples off the freesound website, and more samples are being added by the freesound community each day.

With freesound in Aldrin, you can quickly search and download samples, in case your local sample repository has run dry, or you are searching for something giving your song that distinctive touch - or you just enjoy working together with sound engineers all over the world.

How does it work? Freesound exports an XML based web programming interface, which allows a program to parse content from the website. I wrote a Python class which allows me to login and post queries to that interface. You can check out the source code here.

Using the python class, doing a search is as easy as this:

fs = Freesound()
fs.login('username','password')
print "%i results found." % len(fs.search("apple").getElementsByTagName("sample"))

Freesound integration will be part of release 0.10 of Aldrin, which is scheduled for next week.

Comments

rocks. simply rocks! it

On February 2nd, 2007 abductee (not verified) says:

rocks. simply rocks! it reminds me a bit of the 'code-snippets' feature in the zend-ide. but in the zend ide i take more time to figure the legal implictaions of using/modyfying a snipet than to use it. so i usualyy write stuff myself. but the freesounds integration seems like the way to go. rock on, mr. ritter!

p.s.: maybe ask tempest/damage to put some samples in there to help the music industry to sort out the legality of their stuff.

p.p.s.: do not take the p.s. serious. let the cock-sucking monyeymakers who give a shit about the artists/audiences sit in the pile of mud they created.

p.p.p.s: the p.s. and the p.p.s are disinformation. do not belive in eiter of them.

You know, when you get this app stable and a bunch of machines ported for it windows Buzz users are going to be jumping the fence in droves just to get their hands on this!

My thoughts exactly.

On February 5th, 2007 dark.nowhere (not verified) says:

My thoughts exactly.

Leonard Ritter

Your man in Washington.