audio · qualified
Freesound
Large community sound-effects catalogue with per-sound Creative Commons licensing. Useful for prototyping and production audio discovery only when commercial-compatible licences are filtered and exact-sound provenance is preserved.
Source & provenance
- Provider
- Freesound
- Upstream
- Open original source ↗
- Last verified
- 2026-08-20T03:30:00Z
Licence & commercial use
- Licence
- Mixed per-sound Creative Commons licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC and legacy licences)
- Status
- verified
- Commercial use
- conditional
- Attribution
- Required
- Checked
- 2026-08-20T03:30:00Z
- Evidence
- Review licence evidence ↗
Commercial By JTT projects must exclude CC-BY-NC/non-commercial sounds and preserve exact licence/attribution for each adopted sound. Prefer CC0 or clearly compatible CC-BY entries when quality is equivalent.
Engine & platform fit
- Engines
- engine-agnostic
- Platforms
- web, desktop, mobile, console
- Recommendation
- benchmark
Technical suitability depends on exact download format, quality, loudness, loop quality, compression and runtime memory/streaming requirements.
Maintenance evidence
- Status
- active
- Checked
- 2026-08-20T03:30:00Z
Qualification is as a discovery surface only; no sound inherits catalogue-level approval.
What the current evidence means
Current state: qualified. Pipeline recommendation: benchmark.
Public page must clearly warn that not all Freesound content is commercially reusable and that exact-sound licence filtering is mandatory.
This public record deliberately excludes internal legal, security and risk notes that are not approved for publication. The canonical AI Game Development Pipeline keeps those review details and controls any later promotion.
See something stale or incorrect? Contact By JTT with the entry name and upstream evidence so the canonical record can be reviewed.
Pinned pipeline source: 1efbddf6b9b0837947648353f32817477b0e81c5 · committed 2026-08-20T14:43:17+01:00