Ask HN: What online sound repositories do you use?

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I am looking for decent quality sounds for sound effects and have been disappointed by the overall low quality of the results. Either they want too much money for a mediocre product or the clips are free but terrible.

Any good resources out there for an indie app/game maker that needs sounds and cannot make them himself?

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I use sounds in our videos at http://www.learnitfirst.com/ and I found it was worth it, money-wise, to go ahead and buy at a reasonable price. I've bought from stockmusic.net as well as shockwave-sound.com. I think their sites save me time.

I must say that the shockwave-sound site is high quality and reasonably priced. Thanks!

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.freesound.org/

That's an interesting site. A lot of good sounds there.

But I am curious though about the creative commons license that they use: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/

Does that mean that I cannot alter the sound effect at all when if I use it in a game or user interface? If so that would seem pretty restrictive and borderline unusable for most projects.

I think you're right. It might not be useful for your projects. Sorry.

No need for apologies. I probably can use it to spice up internal projects.

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