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SOUND EFFECTS ('SFX')

MP3 & WAV files

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INTRODUCTION:

This page provides some sound effects audio files --- short (most less than 10 seconds) --- in MP3 file format (Wikipedia link) and/or WAV file format (Wikipedia link).

The '.mp3' and '.wav' files below are presented in category sections --- in categories such as Animals, Explosions, Trains, etc.


    NOTE:
    Prior to April 2017, there were some concerns about using MP3 files due to various licensing issues.

    Here are a few paragraphs from an MP3 page of the Fraunhofer IIS (= Franhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits) that briefly explains the situation.

      "On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated."

      "We thank all of our licensees for their great support in making mp3 the defacto audio codec in the world, during the past two decades."

      "The development of mp3 started in the late 80s at Fraunhofer IIS, based on previous development results at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Although there are more efficient audio codecs with advanced features available today, mp3 is still very popular amongst consumers. However, most state-of-the-art media services such as streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such as the AAC family or in the future MPEG-H. Those technologies, that have been developed with major contributions from Fraunhofer IIS, can deliver more features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to mp3."

    This Licensing section of the MP3 page at Wikipedia has more details on various MP3 licensing legal actions.


You can see in a WEB SEARCHES section near the bottom of this page that the sites that provide sound-effects files (for ring-tones and the like), generally provide the files in WAV or MP3 format, or both.

    There are many audio file formats. One format that was used for sound-effects files was the AU file format introduced by Sun Microsystems.

    Some of the '.mp3' files below may be converted from '.au' files using a program like ffmpeg --- in 'AUDIOtools' scripts of the 'feNautilusScripts' system at freedomenv.com. But for various reasons, this page will not present '.au' audio files.


How to Play WAV files:
(on Linux, via a web browser
and this web page)

There are multiple ways to play WAV files. This section will discuss how to play WAV files via a web browser and the '.wav' file links on this web page.

We will also briefly touch on how to play a WAV file after downloading a '.wav' file onto a (Linux) computer.


In the 2010 to 2019 time frame, I was using the Mozilla-Seamonkey web browser on a home-built computer running the Ubuntu 9.10 (2009 October) operating system.

In that timeframe, I was able to play WAV and MP3 files via a Seamonkey-browser plug-in called gecko-mediaplayer that uses GNOME MPlayer to play media in a web browser.

    This wikibook.org Sidux page describes how the 'gecko-mediaplayer' plug-in could be easily installed using the command

    apt-get   install   gecko-mediaplayer

However, after I upgraded to a new desktop computer running the Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 operating system, I found that I could not simply click on the '.wav' file links below to play the WAV files with a new 2.49.2 version of the Seamonkey web browser.

And the newer versions of Seamonkey (like 2.49.2) seem to no longer support the 'gecko-mediaplayer' plug-in.

There are 'command-line' programs such as MPlayer that can play a wide variety of audio files, as well as video files.

AND there are lots of media players (that play video-only and video-plus-audio and audio-only) on Linux using GUI-interfaces --- such as VLC --- and various MPlayer-based programs such as 'GNOME Videos' (also known as 'Totem') and SMPlayer.

I already had most of these programs installed on my Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 installation. VLC came with the 'distro' --- and I had installed others, like MPlayer and Totem and SMPlayer, with the 'apt-get install' command or a package manager like Synaptic.


Setting a program to play WAV files:
(in the Seamonkey web browser)

In assembling this web page, I brought this HTML page up ('played it') in Seamonkey.

When I clicked on one of the '.wav' file links below (which are anchor 'href' HTML statements), I got the following popup dialog from Seamonkey.

If I (or you) wanted to download the '.wav' file, I could have chosen the 'Save File' option. If I would click on the 'OK' button, I would get a file-navigator dialog by which I could have chosen a directory --- like '/tmp' --- in which to download the file. (And I could have specified a different name for the saved file.)

However, I wanted to set up a WAV-player program to be used to play '.wav' files. So I decided to use the 'Open with' radiobutton.

I clicked on the drop-down menu line of the dialog to see my 'Open with' options. If the default line (VLC in this case) is not what you want, you could choose the 'Other...' option (seen in the image below), by which you can specify a program to use.

For example, I could have selected the program 'totem' --- whose fully-qualified name on my system is '/usr/bin/totem'.

After I select the program 'totem' in the 'Other...' program-selector window (not shown here), I would be returned to the 'Opening' dialog window.

The next step was to make sure I selected the 'Open with' option --- and I also clicked on the 'Do this automatically for files like this from now on' checkbutton.

After clicking on the 'Open with' radiobutton and then clicking on the 'OK' button, the '.wav' file starts playing using the player program that was specified --- in this case the 'VLC' program.

    I could have set the 'mplayer' program as one of my 'Open with' options.

    Since the 'mplayer' program is a 'command-line' program --- not a GUI-interface program like VLC --- there is no window by which you can terminate the playing of the '.wav' file.

    If you want to terminate the program, you can use a program like the 'MATE System Monitor' in Ubuntu-MATE to 'kill' the 'mplayer' program. Or use the 'kill' command at a command prompt in a terminal window.

    A nicer alternative would be to write a 'wrapper' script, which brings up the 'mplayer' program in a terminal window --- by using 'xterm' or 'mate-terminal', for example.

    A nice feature of using a 'wrapper' script:
    You will be able to see information messages coming from the 'mplayer' program, displayed in the terminal window.

    And you could kill the 'mplayer' program by closing the terminal window --- or using Ctrl-C keys.

    The script could reference the '.wav' filename by using a script variable like '$1' --- or some other technique of accessing the filename from within the script.

    I may put a sample 'mplayer_wrapper.sh' script here someday (a few lines of code) --- and use that as my player of '.wav' (and '.mp3') files.

    In fact, there are several other 'command-line' WAV-player programs that could be implemented via a 'wrapper' script --- such as 'play', 'paplay', 'aplay', and 'mpv', whose execution messages are shown in images below.

In the Seamonkey web browser, you can choose the 'Edit > Preferences ...' option from the upper toolbar, and look at the 'Helper Applications' panel of the 'Browser' Category of the Preferences.

The panel of 'Helper Applications' is shown in the following image.

In the image above, you can see the 'WAV audio' line --- and you can see that there is a drop-down menu with several options.

In particular, rather than always having an audio player start up when you click on a '.wav' file link, you can use the 'Always ask' option.

In that case, whenever you click on a '.wav' file link, you can choose from several options --- in a dialog window that pops up when you click on the '.wav' file link of the HTML file:

  • Save File
  • Use VLC
  • Use some other player program
    --- such as 'totem' or 'smplayer' or 'mplayer'

And you can use the 'Use other...' option in this Helper Applications panel to add another program to use on '.wav' files --- such as the 'mplayer_wrapper.sh' script mentioned above.

Note that this same procedure can be used to specify a player program for MP3 files.


Messages from some command-line audio player programs:
(mplayer, play, paplay, aplay, mpv)
(when run in a terminal window)

There is a wealth of audio player programs available on my Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 Linux operating system, including

  • 'mplayer', a command-line video/audio player

  • 'play' which comes with an installation of the 'sox' so-called 'swiss-army-knife' audio editor/converter program

  • 'paplay' which came with the Pulse Audio system on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04

  • 'aplay' which came with the ALSA audio system on Ubuntu-MATE 18.04

  • 'mpv' another media (video/audio) player (forked from mplayer)

These command-line programs start up and execute much more quickly than 'GUI-interface player' programs such as VLC, Totem, SMPlayer, and others.

So, if you are playing a lot of audio files on a web page like this, you will find it would be much more efficient to set up one of these command-line player programs as an audio 'player' in your web browser.

The following images show the type of message lines that come from the mplayer, play, paplay, aplay, and mpv programs --- from which you see that 'paplay' is the quietest, by default.

mplayer

play

paplay

aplay

mpv

I decided to set up the 'paplay' program as an audio player program in the Seamonkey web browser.

Below is an image of the 'WAV audio' line in the 'Helper Applications' panel of Seamonkey, after I set up 'paplay' --- as an 'Open with...' option --- via the 'Use other...' option of this 'Action' drop-down menu.

Now when I click on one of the WAV links in this page using the Seamonkey web browser, the 'Always ask' ('Open with') dialog window pops up --- from which I can choose to 'Open' the WAV file with 'paplay'.

Below is an image of how that prompt looks.


Quality of these Sound-Effects (SFX) files:

There are many sound effects out 'in the wild' that are of poor quality --- such as 'breaking glass' files that do not really sound like breaking glass.

The sound-effects files in links on this page are ones that I think are of better than average quality --- but I may replace some with better files as I find them --- if / when I return to this page.


How to Navigate to the
sound-effects links on this page :

You can use the Table of Contents below to go to category-sections of this page.

But, if you know the kind of sound you are looking for, it may be more helpful to do a keyword-search of this page.

You can use a browser option like 'Edit > Find in this page...' to find keywords on this page, such as 'break' or 'glass' or 'gun' or 'laugh' or 'frog' or 'monkey' or 'phone' or 'ring' or 'roadrunner' or 'whip' or 'whistle'.

Some new sound types may be added in the future ... and some sounds may be replaced by better-quality ones.

Before you click on any of the sound-file links, you will probably want to set the volume control of your sound card to about one-fourth of full volume ... or less.


Ways to Play the WAV & MP3 files :

Simply click on a link to play the '.wav' (or '.mp3') file --- after setting up a '.wav' (and '.mp3') file player in your web browser, as indicated above.

    In modern web browsers (say, those released after 2017), there is typically a built-in interface to play MP3 files. For example, in the Seamonkey web browser, if you click on one of the 'MP3' links below, you will see an audio-player interface like the one in the following image.

To download a '.wav' or '.mp3' file, you can 'right-click' on the 'WAV' and 'MP3' links below, and in the popup menu offered by your web browser, choose an option such as 'Save Link Target As ...'.

After downloading a WAV file, you could play it with a '.wav' file player on your computer --- for example, use 'mplayer' or 'paplay' in a Linux terminal window. Or use a GUI-player such as VLC (or Totem or SMPlayer).

    The command-line programs 'play', 'paplay', and 'aplay' will probably not play MP3 files (unless you have a specially compiled version), but 'mplayer' and 'mpv' will play MP3 files --- and the GUI-players VLC and Totem and SMPlayer will typically play MP3's 'out of the box'.

Enjoy. (You could perhaps play these on your smartphone while waiting in the airport.)


NOTE:
This page is intended mainly for personal/family use and is not a commercial site --- that is, there is no income from this site via advertising or otherwise.

If anyone 'stumbles' across this page somehow and objects to an audio file being here, one that they created or 'own', I will gladly remove it.

Table of Contents:

(links to sections of this page, below)

< Go to Top of Page, above. >

Groups of MP3 & WAV files
(by descriptive names of sound-effect sources) :

  • ANIMALS
    (dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, lions, monkeys, etc.)

  • BEEPERS-BELLS-BUZZERS
    (beeps, bells, gongs, clangs, buzzes, telephone rings, etc.)

  • EXPLOSIONS
    (bombs, grenades, etc.)

  • FEET
    (feet walking/running, hooves galloping, etc.)

  • GLASS
    (breaking, shattering, clinking, etc.)

  • GUNS
    (single shots, machine guns, etc.)

  • HANDS
    (hands clapping, fingers snapping, etc.)

  • INSTRUMENTS
    (piano, violin, guitar, organ, trumpet, drum, etc.)

  • LAUGHS
    (guffaws, titters, audience laughter, etc.)

  • ROCKETS
    (blast off, bottle rockets, etc.)

  • SHIPS
    (fog horns, waves lapping, diving submarine, etc.)

  • SNAP-CRACKLE-POP
    (whip snaps, snapping twigs, popping knees, etc.)

  • SWISHES-and-SWORDS
    (slashes such as sword swipes, sword clashes)

  • TOONS
    (characters such as the road runner, Daffy Duck, etc.)

  • TRAINS
    (train whistles, engine noises, etc.)

  • TUNES
    (short music passages, TV show intro snippets, etc.)

  • VOICES
    (human voices uttering phrases, words, etc.)

  • WEATHER
    (thunder, rain, winds, etc.)

  • WHISTLES
    (non-train whistles. See TRAIN above.)


  • Some SEARCH engines
    (with which to find more sound-bite files)


End of Table of Contents.

Start of contents (WAV & MP3 file links).

Note:
You can use an option like 'Find in This Page ...' of your web browser to find keywords on this page, such as 'dog' or 'glass' or 'horn'.

For more MP3 and WAV files, you can do web searches such as the one provided by links in a WEB SEARCHES section near the bottom of this page.

ANIMAL sounds
(dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, lions, monkeys, etc.)

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dogs barking
WAV     MP3

frog ribbets
WAV     MP3

horse whinny
WAV     MP3

BEEPER-BELL-BUZZER sounds
(beeps, bells, gongs, clangs, buzzes, telephone rings, etc.)

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beeps, three (3)
WAV     MP3

buzz of electricity, long
WAV     MP3

buzz, one, short
WAV     MP3

chime, upward pitch
WAV     MP3

chimes
WAV     MP3

clang, of a pipe
WAV     MP3

ding
WAV     MP3

gong, long
WAV     MP3

phone ring, one ring
WAV     MP3

EXPLOSION sounds
(bombs, grenades, etc.)

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explosion : atomic bomb
WAV     MP3

explosion : big, long
WAV     MP3

explosion : bomb falling and explosion
WAV     MP3

explosion: firecrackers popping
WAV     MP3

explosion : missiles fired, three, with explosion after each
WAV     MP3

explosion : missile shot, with explosion, version 1
WAV     MP3

explosion : missile shot, with explosion, version 2
WAV     MP3

explosion : missile, incoming, with explosion
WAV     MP3

FEET sounds
(feet walking/running, hooves galloping, etc.)

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GLASS sounds
(breaking, shattering, clinking, etc.)

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glass breaking
WAV     MP3

GUN sounds
(single shots, machine guns, etc.)

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cannon shot, version 1
WAV     MP3

gunbattle, includes machine-gun, version 1
WAV     MP3

gunbattle, includes machine-gun, version 2
WAV     MP3

gunbattle with ricochets
WAV     MP3

gun, cocking sound
WAV     MP3

gunshots, about eight
WAV     MP3

gunshots, M16, one burst
WAV     MP3

gunshots, M16s, about 12 shots, distant
WAV     MP3

gunshots, 3 (three)
WAV     MP3

gunshots, 7 (seven)
WAV     MP3

gunshot, of a big gun, version 1
WAV     MP3

gunshot, of a big gun, version 2
WAV     MP3

gunshot, with ricochet, version 1
WAV     MP3

gunshot, with ricochet, version 2
WAV     MP3

gun : machine guns, several different ones firing
WAV     MP3

gun : machine gun, 2 bursts
WAV     MP3

machine gun burst, with echo
WAV     MP3

rapid fire gun, about 10 shots
WAV     MP3

ricochet only, version 1
WAV     MP3

ricochet only, version 2
WAV     MP3

shotgun - cock and shoot
WAV     MP3

HAND sounds
(hands clapping, fingers snapping, etc.)

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INSTRUMENT sounds
(piano, violin, guitar, organ, trumpet, drum, etc.)

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'Bad To The Bone' guitar lick
WAV     MP3

organ chord
WAV     MP3

organ, plays 'Da Daah'
WAV     MP3

Pop Goes The Weasel, electric piano sound
WAV     MP3

trumpet, cavalry charge
WAV     MP3

drum roll
WAV     MP3

war drums
WAV     MP3

LAUGH sounds
(guffaws, titters, audience laughter, etc.)

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laughter, wild
WAV     MP3

laugh, evil
WAV     MP3

ROCKET sounds
(blast off, bottle rockets, etc.)

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rocket : blastoff, long
WAV     MP3

rocket : countdown, 10 to 1, then lift off
WAV     MP3

SHIP sounds
(fog horns, waves lapping, etc.)

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cruise-ship horn
WAV     MP3

ship siren ('klaxon')
WAV     MP3

sonar pings, four (4)
WAV     MP3

submarine : dive horn
WAV     MP3

SNAP-CRACKLE-POP sounds
(whip snaps, snapping twigs, popping knees, etc.)

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whip crack
WAV     MP3

SWISH-and-SWORD sounds
(sword swipes & clashes, etc.)

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slash sound, brief
WAV     MP3

swish : laser sword, high to low pitch
WAV     MP3

swish : laser sword, low to high pitch
WAV     MP3

swords making contact, with sustained ping
WAV     MP3

sword being drawn from scabard
WAV     MP3

TOON sounds
(characters such as the road runner, Daffy Duck, etc.)

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cartoon : roadrunner beep-beep
WAV     MP3

TRAIN sounds
(whistles, engine noises, etc.)

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train : horn
WAV     MP3

train (amusement park) : whistle
WAV     MP3

TUNE sounds
(short music passages, TV show intro snippets, etc.)

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tune : 6 notes, an intro
WAV     MP3

tune : 2 notes, Ta Daah
WAV     MP3

VOICE sounds

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group of voices : "Wooo", then "Wow"
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "all righty then" phrase
WAV     MP3

voice, shouting : "And What The Hell Is That Smell"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "Hasta La Vista Baby"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "I Have No Interest In Running For Public Office"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "I'll Be Back"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "I Need A Vacation"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "I Think Your Body Cannot
Recuperate As Fast As When You're Young"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "No Problemo"
WAV     MP3

voice (Arnold-like) : "Thank You Very Much"
WAV     MP3

voice (Blues Brothers like) : "We're On A Mission From God"
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "Did You Not Even Pick Up One Piece Of Trash?"
WAV     MP3

voice, duck : "Who's Your Daddy" soliloquy
WAV     MP3

voice : "Goodbye" with echo
WAV     MP3

voice, male, sarcastic : "Good Luck, My Friend"
WAV     MP3

voice (Robin Williams like) : "Good Morning, Vietnam"
WAV     MP3

voice (HAL computer) : "Good Evening, Dave. ..."
WAV     MP3

voice (HAL computer) : "It Can Only Be Attributable To Human Error."
WAV     MP3

voice (HAL computer) : "My Mind Is Going ... I Can Feel It."
WAV     MP3

voice (MC Hammer like) : "Can't Touch This"
WAV     MP3

voice (MC Hammer like) : "Hammer Time"
WAV     MP3

voice (Hannibal Lecter like) : "Good Evening, Clarice"
WAV     MP3

voice (Home Improvement) : "Not Even Close, Tim"
WAV     MP3

voice (Home Improvement) : "Well, Tim, You're Probably
Just Responding To The Visceral Male Urge To Create"
WAV     MP3

voice, high, male : "I Can Hardly Contain Myself"
WAV     MP3

voice, deep, male : "I'm The Doctor Around Here"
WAV     MP3

voice, angry, male : "I'm Very Pissed Off ... Very Pissed Off"
WAV     MP3

voice, male, English : "I Say. I Think Something's Gone Wrong."
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "Oh Boy. We Are In Big Trouble."
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "Permission Granted"
WAV     MP3

voice (starTrek) : "Captain, We're Losing Power In The Warp Engines"
WAV     MP3

voice (starTrek) : siren, "Kirk here", then "Captain,
We're Losing Power In The Warp Engines"
WAV     MP3

voice (starWars, Darth Vader) : "You Have Failed Me
For The Last Time"
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "Stop It! You're Talking Crazy."
WAV     MP3

voice (high pitched) : "Uh Oh"
WAV     MP3

voice, male : "What Is Your Purpose?"
WAV     MP3

voice, woman : "Your typical
American Male. No Self Control."
WAV     MP3

voice (Austin Powers like) : "Yeah Baby, Yeah."
WAV     MP3

WEATHER sounds
(thunder, rain, winds, etc.)

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thunderclaps, two (2), rolling
WAV     MP3

WHISTLE sounds
(non-train. See TRAIN section above.)

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whistle, high-pitched, about 9 'wheeps'
WAV     MP3

whistle, navy
WAV     MP3

penny-whistle, pitch slides Down, then Up
WAV     MP3

penny-whistle, pitch slides Up
WAV     MP3

Some LINKS to find more MP3 or WAV
sound-effects (SFX) files on the web
--- and more information on playing MP3/WAV files:

A few sources of MP3 or WAV sound-effects files (in 2020) follow. (These did not require registration or login to download, in 2020.)

WARNING:
Some of these sites may try some 'monkey business' to keep you on the site or to collect personal information via disgusting programming logic triggered by 'Download' buttons. If so, you can go back to your browser 'default home' page and avoid those sites like the plague.

  • www.moviesoundclips.net
    (Lots of sound-effects and short-dialog MP3 files that can be downloaded with a right-click on an 'MP3' link and use an option like 'Save Link Target As...' to download the file without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020. Animals, celebrity quotes, and lots of other short files.)

  • findsounds.com
    (A search engine to find sound files --- WAV, MP3, AU, AIFF --- all over the web. Right-click on the file link and use a browser option like 'Save Link Target As...' to download the file without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020.)

  • www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/
    (Has many pages of WAV and MP3 files shown without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020. Right-click on a 'WAV' or 'MP3' link to use a 'Save Link Target As...' option to download the file.)

  • soundbible.com/royalty-free-sounds-1.html
    (You can Play & Save WAV and MP3 files without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020. Dogs, cars, bells, rain, and lots of other short sound effects. Right-click on a 'WAV' or 'MP3' icon and use a 'Save Link Target As...' option to download the file.)

  • www.orangefreesounds.com/category/sound-effects/
    (You can Play & Save MP3 files for free without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020. There is a charge for WAV files. The MP3 files may be in a '.zip' file from which you can extract the MP3 file.)

  • sounds-mp3.com
    (Sound effects files arranged in about 100 categories. When playing an audio file (MP3's only), you can right-click on the player interface and use a 'Save Audio As...' option to save the file.)

  • soundjax.com
    (This site has a search-the-web option and about 100 category 'tags' that you can select. When playing an audio file, MP3 or WAV, you can right-click on the player interface and use a 'Save Audio As...' option to save the file.)

  • soundspunos.com
    (This site has sounds in many categories --- such as cartoon sounds. You can right-click on the 'Download' link under the player interface and use an option such as 'Save Link Target As...' to download the file.)

  • free-loops.com/audio.php?term=sound%20effect
    (This is mainly a music-loops site, but it has sound effects files available via this URL. When playing an audio file (MP3 or WAV), you can right-click on the download icon and use a 'Save Link Target As...' option to save the file.)

  • sfx.productioncrate.com/sound-fx-categories.html
    (The site is known as 'SoundsCrate'. The pages are rather slow to load. You can Play & Save MP3 files for free without 'monkey business', in Dec 2020. When playing an audio file, you can right-click on the player interface and use a 'Save Audio As...' option to save a 'non-HD' MP3 file.)

  • freepd.com (freepd = free public domain)
    (Mostly short music clips, less than 5 minutes. When playing an audio file, you can right-click on the player interface and use a 'Save Audio As...' option.)

  • www.shockwave-sound.com/free-sound-effects/car-sounds
    (See bottom of page for more categories of sounds besides cars. Offers a mixture of WAV, MP3, and AU files.)

  • www.gargaro.com/sounds/
    (A mixture of WAV, MP3, and AU files. Marvin the Martian, Beavis and Butthead, Bill Clinton.)

  • www.american.edu/library/mediaservices/sound_effects_collection.cfm
    (Mostly WAV files. A donated collection from film producer Greg Smith, hosted at American University, Washington DC.)

  • www.talkingwav.com/cartoon-wav-sounds/
    (Mostly WAV files. Cartoon charcaters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Scobby Doo. You can right-click on a text-link and use a 'Save Link Target As...' option to save the file.)

  • sounds4email.com
    (Many MP3 files. Many categories. You can right-click on an audio-player interface of your browser and use a 'Save Audio As...' option to save the file.)

  • wav-sounds.com
    (Many WAV files of all kinds. Many voices such as Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Austin Powers, Homer Simpson. You can click on a Download button and, in a popup Open-or-Save window, choose to save the file, rather than play it.)

  • www.wavsource.com
    (Many WAV files of all kinds. Many categories: Comedians such as George Carlin, Movie Stars such as Marlon Brando, TV programs, Animals, etc. You can right-click on a text-link and use a 'Save Link Target As...' option.)

  • Wikipedia:Free_sound_resources
    (This Wikipedia page points to some music and sound-effects sites ---- but many of them require registration or login or more.)

  • www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-recordings.html
    (This page points to sites with free audio recordings --- mostly of music and spoken-word recordings. There may be some audio 'snippets' that could be edited/extracted from some of these files.)

You can try a WEB SEARCH on keywords such as:

And you can try the

Using 'Audacity' to edit some
sound-effects (SFX) files:

If you find an audio file that you like (say, from web sites like those listed above), a common thing you might want to do is extract a portion of a longer audio file.

A wonderful sound-file editing program, available on Linux systems as well as other operating systems, is the program called Audacity.

The image below indicates how you can 'select-and-save' a section of a audio file (like a WAV file) --- by using the 'Edit > Remove Special > Trim Audio' function of Audacity.

In this case, the end of the sound track was selected by a simple point-and-swipe operation with the computer mouse (the white area at the end of the sound track).

The 'Trim Audio' option can be used to eliminate the portions you do not want.

Then, to save the file selection, you can use the 'File > Export > Export as WAV' option. (Other options include 'Export as MP3' and 'Export as OGG'.)

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Page history:

Page was posted 2020 Dec 14.
(Based on a preliminary page created around 2007 Dec 30.)
(In 2020 Dec, added css and javascript to try to handle text-size for smartphones, esp. in portrait orientation. Provided INTRODUCTION sections, and added about 9 images. Added a TABLE OF CONTENTS menu. Added WEB SEARCHES for more sound-effects/SFX files and for more information on sound-effects files.)

Page was changed 2020 Dec 16.
(Added MP3 file links corresponding to each of the WAV file links. Also added 4 images and some text to the INTRODUCTION section --- and some links to the WEB SEARCHES section --- and a new 'Audacity editing' section.)