Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021),[1] and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019).

Audio content in the repository can be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means as well as standard text-based search.

Freesound has a RESTful API through which third-party applications can access and retrieve audio content and its metadata.

The Freesound Project was officially launched on April 5, 2005 in the context of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference.

[3][4] The features of Freesound are designed to make the sound files on the website easy to index, search, and browse.