Freesound library

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Map your own samples

The same map, over your own folder of audio. It analyses every file on your machine — no account, no API key, no quota — and after the first run it touches the network only to check for its own updates.

Download from GitHub Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

Windows will warn you, and here is why

What you get is an installer, and it is not signed. A code-signing certificate is bought rather than earned, and this one has not been bought yet — so Microsoft Defender SmartScreen does not recognise the publisher, and says so before it will run the file:

  1. Your browser may stop the download itself. Choose Keep.
  2. Running it raises a blue Windows protected your PC box whose only button is Don’t run. Click More info.
  3. Click Run anyway.

That box means SmartScreen has not seen this publisher before. It is not a report of anything found in the file — but it is not nothing either, and every release publishes a checksum so that you can check what you downloaded rather than take this paragraph’s word for it. The installer writes to your own user account, so Windows will not ask for an administrator.

Keyboard shortcuts

Listening

Click a small dotPlay it, or stop it if it is playing
SpacePlay the sample under the cursor, or stop
RPlay a random sample from what is on screen
Tab or →Play the next similar sound
Shift Tab or ←Go back the way you came
Ctrl Z / Ctrl YThe sound you played before, or after
LLoop samples, or play each one once
EscStop, and clear the trail

Keeping sounds

SKeep the sample in your basket, or drop it
DDownload the sample

Moving around

ScrollZoom in and out
DragMove the map
FFit the whole map in the window
Click a tag or familyThen Tab plays through every sample on it

Searching

Type words to match names, tags and uploaders, or narrow it down with bpm:120-130 key:Amin tag:vinyl dur:<2 by:name. Start a term with - to leave those samples out.