What Makes A Good Submission/The Sounds Resource
Contents
The Sound
Make Sure It's Not Music
The Sounds Resource is for Sound Effects only. Music usually has a lot more complexities in terms of how we can go about providing it, specifically because many games use licensed songs or sell their soundtracks on in other media.
Note: We also cannot accept instrument samples, as they are what form the music and are not sound effects anyway, so please make sure that your submissions don't contain any.
File Formats
While you can only submit .zip archives to the site, the actual audio files within your zips must be in the WAV format.
If the files are originally in MP3 or OGG, these are also accepted. However, do not convert WAV files to MP3 or OGG; these formats are lossy and converting to them loses some quality. Also, do not convert MP3 or OGG files to WAV; this simply creates larger files without any improvement in quality.
The Sound Pack
Get Everything
While this isn't strictly required, we do need sound packs to be "as complete as possible". What we mean by this is, to put it simply, don't try to submit a "Menu Sound Effects" pack and only include a few menu sound effects. You need to at least try and go for a more complete rip than knowingly decide to just submit 2 sound from random categories.
Credit Tags
If you want to include a credit tag, simply include a small .txt file with any information you wish to provide. Some information you may wish to include will be:
Name: You can include your name if you want. It's not really required as we store your name in our database anyway, seen below the download button.
Credit: Some people want to be credited when somebody uses their ripped sound effects, normally by writing "Give credit if used". Some people will also write "Credit not required". It's your choice whether you want to request credit or not, though we advise that you don't ask for it.
Just remember that not including a tag is also more than acceptable. It's quite likely that many people will simply ignore a tag, which is why the trend lately has been to simply not include one. This is of course your own personal preference.
Zipping
The site only accepts .zip file submissions. Please only include the sound effects and a credit tag, if you wish to include one. Any additional files just add space needlessly and detract from the quality of your submission. You can create the .zip file with any application you wish.
