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Hello Everyone,

I'm looking for volunteers to help us describe the 8.5GB of "creative commons attribution" samples released by Dr. Richard Boulanger for the One Laptop Per Child project:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples

We have contacted dr Boulanger, who gave us permission to enter all the sounds into Freesound. The only problem is that these sounds have NOT been described nor tagged, so we are looking for volunteers to help us describe the samples.

If you are interested in helping, please let us know right here in this thread. Once we have a few volunteers we will discuss HOW to do this and make some guidelines for describing these samples.

- Bram

I'd happily lend a hand.

I downloaded the heavy torrent.

First thing: please preserve the license. This means: give each of the files the "cc-by-3.0" (if "." is possible as a tag character) (this can be done in one single batch job I'm sure)

Each file description should contain the following at the end.

Created by ARTISTNAME ( URLTOSOUNDPACKAGE )

This recording is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ )

You can use this sound for every purpose under the condition that you attribute the creator.

I will take a look at the files now, I'm sure they have a standard name-style and are sorted by topic, so we will be able to create scripts with four parameters, where the first is a list of tags and the second and third are the first and last file which shall receive these tags. and the fourth is the prefix. this would mean if the files are "lala-01.wav" "lala-02.wav" etc a script like "./tagme 'instrument musical-instrument oboe' 04 23 lala-" will give the files lala-04.wav thought lala-23.wav the tags. Well I hope it'll be that easy

qubodup,

Bram
Once we have a few volunteers we will discuss HOW to do this and make some guidelines for describing these samples.

- bram

Hello everybody, one more volunteer

P.S.: I think it could be interesting to give some info about volunteer knowledge, in order to give out the work.

I would like to help...

Hey! Don't forget this thread

Not forgetting

qubodup, could you do me a favor and give me a complete, recursive directory listing of all (44.1KHz) sounds?
via mail please.

- bram

i will help... OMG that is a lot of samples hock: ! I downloaded the incomplete torrent and was amazed at the sheer magnitude and broad spectrum of samples... I did notice a few doubles tho.. anyway yeah... i will help.. anyone who can should, cuz this is no small endeavor.

with me it fails because of the language barrier ..otherwise i would help willingly of course ...cya

<2°TRo²³

ps: amazing library...

guys,

I just got this email:

Hello, everyone.

I'm pleased to announce v2 of the OLPC sound samples torrent,
available immediately from:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/1564237

It includes all of the 44kHz samples that were missing from the
initial release of the torrent.

Thanks to SJ Klein and Dr. Richard Boulanger for helping me get
this release together.

A number of you are getting this via BCC: because Dr. Boulanger
asked me to let you know when this hit; this includes folks at
FreeSound and others who had expressed interest. I apologise
profusely if getting a notice about this new torrent is something
you're not interested in; let me know and I'll never bother you
again.

Phil Bordelon

I asked qubodup for some help before, but now I'm just getting the samples myself - directly onto freesound. I'll make the list for description again and set it up.

If I forget, remind me in 1 week and kick me in 2.

- bram

Hm, did you not get the list (s)?

http://qubodup.googlepages.com/list.txt
http://qubodup.googlepages.com/tree.txt
http://qubodup.googlepages.com/tree_pure.txt

I'll be really happy to take part in this project. Hope it's not to late!

Up!

qubodup, everyone...

qubodup, could you try this command and send the output?

find -iname '*.wav' .

that will give us the full list of wave files, with full paths. which will be easier to work on

sorry this is taking ages, guys, I'm trying to juggle 50 balls at the same time.

- Bram

by the way, qubodup, if you have some form of instant messaging, please add bramdotdejong@gmaildotcom to google talk so we can get this organized a bit easier.

- bram

Bram
qubodup, everyone...

qubodup, could you try this command and send the output?

find -iname '*.wav' .

that will give us the full list of wave files, with full paths. which will be easier to work on

sorry this is taking ages, guys, I'm trying to juggle 50 balls at the same time.

- Bram

That's hilarious...

I could help before January if you still need it.