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hi,
i try to think about this, then i try to google it, and nothing found about why people upload their sound effects for free., instead of some paid library.
what me confusion that, because they spend of personal time ? and do not wish monetize their efforts/ ?
can you explain your motivation ? very interested to know .

Interesting question.

The simplest way to describe my personal motivation: the community

In short, there is something rather satisfying about giving and receiving as part of an online neighbourhood of fellow audiophiles. The incentive? getting to see the comments of people thanking you for the upload and how it helped them with their project.

The other reason would be that I would prefer to publish for free my cast away files. These are audio files and/or experimentations that I didn't use in my commercial sound design work.

I'm sure others might have a radically different motivation, but that's my personal impetus.

reacthor wrote:
"what your motivation to submit your sound to freesound ?"

Fame!

Great question! Why do artists give away their paintings for free sometimes? Why does my friends aunty give away her pasta sauce? Depends on a lot of things including the person I guess. Some people just wouldn't give anything away and that's their right to not do so. When I make a cake I give most of it away, don't even like cake much myself. I guess it feels good when you make someone happy from something you have created, whether you know about it or not.

Personally for me and freesound it started when I downloaded a CC0 sample for myself. I felt like giving back so I uploaded one (http://freesound.org/people/djnicke/sounds/208759/). That's it really! I agree with what Headphaze said too. For me making a sample or a loop doesn't take a great deal of my personal time. If I am making samples I am usually making them for myself anyway and making 20-50 at a time so it's really no bother if I spend an extra 5 mins uploading some here!

I'm not a hippy but I hate giving my money to the man. Lots of stuff we have to pay for should be free (another story for another forum). An old friend once said to me "You are going to leave the world eventually, you should leave something for the world before you go". If something costs me no more than my time I got no issue giving it away for nothing. Thanks for your great question!

Pretty much what others have said.

I just want to leave the world in a better place than it was when I came into it. And if someone does something with one of my uploads that makes them, or who knows, someone else happy, it’s worth doing. Some of the sounds I’ve uploaded that took all of thirty seconds to make have been downloaded hundreds of times, so I’m hoping at least some of those people had fun.

At the same time, I enjoy this sort of sharing economy. Of course, lots of people just download sounds and don’t upload anything, and that’s fine, but if I ‘take’ something from the Freesound community, I want to give something back. Open source culture isn’t some kind of scary communist revolution by stealth. It’s the oldest social contract in human history: scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. I find Freesound a new and interesting twist on the old idea of sampling and making new sounds out of something else. (On top of that, you won’t get sued.)

I also enjoy the FS community itself. Many tracks of mine have been inspired by samples I’ve found here. Any community where creative types can all share with and learn from another is one worth participating actively in.

It is hard for me to put into words, but basically I give back because Freesound actually changed my whole life and career so I owe them that.

What if something that you give, eventually gives something back to you?

What if one day, you get a comment on a sound that you uploaded a couple of years ago and you had completely forgotten about and that really makes your day?

AlienXXX wrote:
What if something that you give, eventually gives something back to you?

What if one day, you get a comment on a sound that you uploaded a couple of years ago and you had completely forgotten about and that really makes your day?

Still can't understand how or why, but I often remember many details (context, place) about every sound I put here.

But you are right, every now and then someone points me to a sample I forgot and... it's very weird to me. Like hangover, if you know what I mean. Did I do this?! Jeez, I'm a freaky guy indeed

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I'm motivated by being somewhere and hearing some amazing sound in "the wild" and NOT having any way to capture it, no phone, no recorder, just my brain, and the times that sound has got under my skin and I've wished I could go back and find it and share it with the rest of the universe. This is a wonderful service, a way to have access to all kinds of noizes. Its also nice to get feedback when somebody thinks something was worth recording, or not. Money is transient and intrinsically worthless, vibration is forever. I swear I'm not tripping.

Because freesound is such a great resource. It's hard not to give back. Help other people as they helped me.

And if you look at the commercial (fx) libraries, of course it's all tidy and clean and well recorded. Yet often quite narrow in focus and missing local stuff. Also some very specific sounds/objects are hard to find in the commercial realm, while there is often a chance to find at least something here.

So thank you guys pooling your sounds here .

what your motivation to submit your sound to freesound ?

Because I like to record sound and share them and because this is a wonderful village.

klankbeeld wrote:
this is a wonderful village.

Yes, this is a wonderful village...

http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Village-Of-The-Damned.jpg

Because I have downloaded sounds from other members and the best I can do is repay the community with my sounds. It takes nothing to share with people some stuff. Not everything in the world is about money.

I believe "Internet means to be free". I haven't download any sound from here yet but I give free without hesitation. Some of my uploads are coming from one piano note and I took that sound as free from someone else, some another site. So it's still paying back. Give free so you can get as free. Be good and everyone is good to you, no problem. Eventually, money is temporary but a thankful person is not.

Interesting discussion. Unfortunately I download more than I post, but it is not a matter of not wanting to upload... it's more of a time crunch. If I could step away from "normal" recording/production to share some sounds from my library, I'd be willing to do so. I usually just have too much going on, and it takes time to edit and decide what I want to put out there vs hold for projects that are underway.

I give away a lot of other music in other places, and may start opening up my modular creations, but I see Freesound as a foley and environmental sound repository and not so much a place for synth sounds. I really do not usually come here for manipulated or processed sounds.

Hello jjdeprisco

jjdeprisco wrote:
I give away a lot of other music in other places, and may start opening up my modular creations, but I see Freesound as a foley and environmental sound repository and not so much a place for synth sounds. I really do not usually come here for manipulated or processed sounds.