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"Our Ambient World" SFX Library [Contributor Thread]

emooney

Hi all,

I was able to download all of the files successfully, or at least I'm pretty sure I was. I have a total of 256 wav files weighing in at 37.15GB. Someone let me know if this is everything please. You can reach me at mooneyeric@yahoo.com.

I did think of a possible solution that I could possibly help with. I am using the Copy application, which is similar to Dropbox, etc. and I have 57GB of space on there. Basically, you start out with 15GB and if you refer someone to signup and they do you get an extra 5GB per person. Since I have the free space available I don't mind trying to share all of our recordings on there and then posting the link on this forum. To be able to download using the link I could provide (after the lengthy upload) does not require you to download or sign up for Copy.

I will go ahead and start trying to upload everything to my Copy folder so I can post a link here. This may take a while to get everything uploaded though so give me a day or so. Hopefully this can be a good workaround for the time being.

Eric

kayceemixer

I did the same procedure as @stavrosound. Took a bit of time but worked out great in the end.

Thanks Mike for organizing this, really appreciate it.

Mike

@emooney wrote:
Hi all,

I was able to download all of the files successfully, or at least I'm pretty sure I was. I have a total of 256 wav files weighing in at 37.15GB. Someone let me know if this is everything please. You can reach me at mooneyeric@yahoo.com.

I did think of a possible solution that I could possibly help with. I am using the Copy application, which is similar to Dropbox, etc. and I have 57GB of space on there. Basically, you start out with 15GB and if you refer someone to signup and they do you get an extra 5GB per person. Since I have the free space available I don't mind trying to share all of our recordings on there and then posting the link on this forum. To be able to download using the link I could provide (after the lengthy upload) does not require you to download or sign up for Copy.

I will go ahead and start trying to upload everything to my Copy folder so I can post a link here. This may take a while to get everything uploaded though so give me a day or so. Hopefully this can be a good workaround for the time being.

Eric

Thanks for the suggestion, Eric.

My only concern with this is that not everyone on this "contributor thread" actually submitted something for the library so you would be sharing the link with people that didn't end up participating. I think if we give it a couple days it will smooth out. If not, we can look at some other solutions. If people are comfortable with it, I can also send you the contact info of the individuals that contributed material so it's fair to everyone.

emooney

Mike, I'll be glad to email you the download link so that you can just forward it to the other contributors. I'll go ahead and send you the download link once everything has finished uploading to my Copy account just in case everything hasn't smoothed out after a couple of days.

Thanks for putting all of this together!

Eric

Mike

@emooney wrote:
Mike, I'll be glad to email you the download link so that you can just forward it to the other contributors. I'll go ahead and send you the download link once everything has finished uploading to my Copy account just in case everything hasn't smoothed out after a couple of days.

Thanks for putting all of this together!

Eric

Super kind of you, Eric! Thanks.

Daftfader

I tried to continue downloading this morning and all is well, obviously I was just getting crushed in the rush. Thanks.

Another option for sharing could be (with no research at all) using the free 50Gb Mega accounts (https://mega.co.nz/#register).

imgoinmad

@imgoinmad wrote:
This might shed some light on the problem...I tried adding the folder to my Google Drive but then for all 256 files I get this ==> Can't sync 256 files and it provides reason "Download Error - An unknown issue has occurred". I tried turning off and relaunching the Google Drive application but got the same thing. I tried downloading just a single file and when I did so, got this message ==>

Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time.

Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later. If the file you are trying to access is particularly large or is shared with many people, it may take up to 24 hours to be able to view or download the file. If you still can't access a file after 24 hours, contact your domain administrator.

I'm thinking I should just wait a day or 2 and it should resolve itself and sync all the files to my machine? Thoughts?

Looks to be correct, I turned off google drive and relaunched it this morning and the files seem to be syncing to my machine, a dozen files so far with no errors. Must have been the overload and number of people trying to get them

Daftfader

Is anyone else using Soundminer and finding that the file 'AMB_Urban_Day_Alexandria_VA' makes it crash when dragging it to the database?

I am using v4.5pro, I've re-downloaded the file to double check but it is still happening.

Thanks

Al.

Mike

@Daftfader wrote:
Is anyone else using Soundminer and finding that the file 'AMB_Urban_Day_Alexandria_VA' makes it crash when dragging it to the database?

I am using v4.5pro, I've re-downloaded the file to double check but it is still happening.

Thanks

Al.

Is it only crashing if you drag it into Soundminer? What if you try any other audio editing software?

ktwAudio

With the wonders of my middle-off-nowhere / we're-lucky-to-have-electricity Internet, I just managed to finish downloading everything by dividing it into 15 zip files. Took an approximate total of 15hrs.

Thanks to everyone who participated. Cannot wait for the next project!

stavrosound

@Daftfader wrote:
Is anyone else using Soundminer and finding that the file 'AMB_Urban_Day_Alexandria_VA' makes it crash when dragging it to the database?

I am using v4.5pro, I've re-downloaded the file to double check but it is still happening.

Thanks

Al.

That must have been what crashed SMHD+ when I tried to scan everything. Thanks for the heads up!

michalfojcik

I just wanted to say Thank you to all participators.

This library is full of great sounds.

Finishing download at the moment, but what I have heard already is superb.

Thanks Mike for this idea!

Best,

Michal

Mike

@stavrosound wrote:
Is anyone else using Soundminer and finding that the file 'AMB_Urban_Day_Alexandria_VA' makes it crash when dragging it to the database?

I am using v4.5pro, I've re-downloaded the file to double check but it is still happening.

Thanks

Al.

That must have been what crashed SMHD+ when I tried to scan everything. Thanks for the heads up!
If you guys can confirm this let me know. I can re-upload the file. I had everything in Soundminer at one point with no crashes so hopefully it's a different file that just got corrupted while downloading.

michael_m

The odd sounding MS-recording I mentionend earlier seem to be:

AMB_Urban_Madrid_Day_Pond.wav

AMB_Urban_Madrid_Day_Skaters.wav

AMB_Urban_Madrid_Night_Plaza.wav

I talked with stavrosound and he agreed, that something is odd about these files. It seems that something went wrong during the matrixed encoding.

According to stavrosound you can solve the issue by inverting the phase of one of the two stereo channels. I haven't checked it myself so far, but since he's quite experienced I trust him.

I don't want to blame someone with this post, so please don't get me wrong. These are three nice recordings and it would be a shame, if users wouldn't use these files, because they sound weird. So hopefully everybody can correct it and use it in future projects

eric_n

Thanks Mike for doing this. Great idea. Great library.

"AMB_Urban_Day_Alexandria_VA" was making my Soundminer crash as well.

Thanks again!! Great stuff.

Eric

Jonathan

I just have to say... AMB_Rural_Day_Iceland_Snæfell_Sea_Lava_Beach_01 is delicious. The sound of the water receding over the pebbly rocks, mmmm

Kudos for whoever's in Iceland and got to experience/record this one

stavrosound

The Copenhagen seagulls track is sublime. Great catch!

glowingpear

Just downloaded the library and what I've heard so far is great. Indeed, AMB_Rural_Day_Iceland_Snæfell_Sea_Lava_Beach_01.wav is fantastic. Who recorded this one? I'm very curious which mics and recorder were used. My recording pales in comparison.

I do wish there was a file with all the additional information we submitted about our recordings.

Thank you Mike for doing this. I'm so happy to have been a part of the project and to have this library. Please keep me posted if any other libraries will be made like this!

Steve

@Jonathan wrote:
I just have to say... AMB_Rural_Day_Iceland_Snæfell_Sea_Lava_Beach_01 is delicious. The sound of the water receding over the pebbly rocks, mmmm

Kudos for whoever's in Iceland and got to experience/record this one

Glad you like it and happy I got to share it. I'm from London but went to Iceland earlier this year for a recording trip. it's a beautiful country with some amazing wildlife, if you ever get the chance to go recording there I can't recommend it enough.

I'm downloading all the files now, can't wait to hear them!

imgoinmad

@glowingpear wrote:
Just downloaded the library and what I've heard so far is great. Indeed, AMB_Rural_Day_Iceland_Snæfell_Sea_Lava_Beach_01.wav is fantastic. Who recorded this one? I'm very curious which mics and recorder were used. My recording pales in comparison.

I do wish there was a file with all the additional information we submitted about our recordings.

Thank you Mike for doing this. I'm so happy to have been a part of the project and to have this library. Please keep me posted if any other libraries will be made like this!

I would also love to have more whatever info exists for the recordings. With mine I submitted 2 photos as well as a text file describing what was recorded, mics used etc. I couldn't figure out how to add the metadata so I put all the details in my text file. (Anyone able to point to good instructions for doing such a thing?) Mike, thanks again for setting up this project, would you consider adding whatever you have, photos, text files, etc to a new share?

BTW Google Drive while at first uncooperative, finally downloaded everything after nothing more than turning off and relaunching the application. All files downloaded complete.

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