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hi frederic,

interesting... I just wonder whether the pool of random tags was extracted from a normal dictionary or from a 'dictionary' made of sound-related words (?). It seems to me that this might have some effect on your statistical testing...

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dobroide wrote:
hi frederic,

interesting... I just wonder whether the pool of random tags was extracted from a normal dictionary or from a 'dictionary' made of sound-related words (?). It seems to me that this might have some effect on your statistical testing...

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The pool of tags was built only using other tags from Freesound, no external data/knowledge was introduced at any step.

Ah, makes sense now why I sometimes got unrelated suggestions.

I'd also like to see comment replying, like on YouTube. Hope you see this. Thanks.

Just one suggestion for tags: tag where the recording was made. For example, I was searching for funfair sounds for a project, but those recorded in other languages were of no use to me.

However, I really appreciate your site. Keep up the good work.

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Great sound effects when you can get to them. Wish that everyone on Earth that can make a techno beat or loop wouldn't fill up every possible category with their 3 second glitch (masterpiece). I listen to all that stuff too, but do you think 80 samples per tag is a little bit much. There needs to be a place for those who wish to indulge themselves with doing that without clogging up the lists for those of us who actually need to find real sound effects. Much Appreciated

I know the experiment is finished but this is still very interesting and helpful to read the comments. When I bought my first DAW a few years ago and started learning how to use it and had no idea about the midi editor I excitedly and gratefully searched freesound for sounds to play with. My husband has a hobby making stop motion animation, so we also greatly appreciate the vast number of sounds effects and interesting field recordings. Sometimes now I upload loops to give something back to a community that provided me with a lot of fun, and I shall definately take more care tagging.
I guess there is a real difference between loops and samples that are generally for music purposes and "real" sounds for videos and then a huge grey area of ambience . . . maybe there could be some kind of broad category definition, such as will this sound be used mainly for music/remix purpose? that could cut out a lot of frustration for people looking for sound fx not drums or bass that sounds like something else . . . without seperating a community that is interested in both of these media.
This site just keeps getting better, thanks again to you all.