What Makes A Good Submission/The Sounds Resource
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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.
MP2 files should not be converted to WAV either as they provide the same result with converting MP3s and OGGs. Rather, change their extension to MP3, then submit.
The Sound Pack
Get The Most Amount of Sounds Possible
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 an incomplete submission, as it destroys the whole purpose of uploading a sound pack. Getting the most amount of sounds possible from a game is more rewarding for both you, as the submitter, and for the users that download the network's submissions. This enables them to put more of the hosted sound assets to good usage. Some games may have tools that do not 100% support the full extraction of every single sound file from a game's archive; that is fine. Just do your best to make sure you grab every sound file you can to make your submissions as complete as possible.
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 Your Submissions
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. Some common applications used are "7-zip" and "WinRar". When splitting a big folder of sounds into multiple smaller parts, it is recommended that you keep each sub-folder of sounds at around 100MB to allow for users to download it easier. While of course this is a recommendation, the max file size you can upload of a ZIP is 250MB. Subsequently, if you have a folder of sounds that go above this limit, you must split them into smaller folders to accommodate to the upload limit.
