About

If you've ever wanted a placeholder audio file for a project, you know how hard it is to find a 13 second ogg file on the internet. No more! noise'r'us is here for you.

Urls

https://noiserus.greg.technology/<sound>/<seconds>.<ext>
https://noiserus.greg.technology/fart/1.mp3

If you visit a URL that does not exist, we also have a 404 sound for that.

Formats

ext	content-type
`.mp3`	`audio/mpeg`	mp3, lame vbr v2 (about 190 kbps)
`.wav`	`audio/wav`	wav, 16 bit pcm
`.m4a`	`audio/mp4`	aac 192 kbps in mp4
`.ogg`	`audio/ogg`	vorbis q6 (about 190 kbps)
`.opus`	`audio/ogg`	opus 128 kbps
`.flac`	`audio/flac`	flac, lossless
`.aiff`	`audio/aiff`	aiff, 16 bit pcm
`.webm`	`audio/webm`	opus 128 kbps in webm
`.m3u8`	`application/vnd.apple.mpegurl`	hls playlist, aac 128 kbps, one mpeg-ts segment file
`.caf`	`audio/x-caf`	apple core audio, 16 bit pcm
`.au`	`audio/basic`	sun/next au, 16 bit pcm
`.wma`	`audio/x-ms-wma`	windows media audio v2, 128 kbps
`.ra`	`audio/vnd.rn-realaudio`	realaudio 1.0, 14.4 kbps, 8 khz

All files are mono, 48 kHz, cut from a 16 bit master.

manifest.json

/manifest.json lists everything that exists:

url: the url template
formats: extension to content-type and description
sounds: slug to the list of seconds available
names: slug to display name
sources: sound/seconds to the sha256 of the master wav the files were made from
not_found: where unknown urls go

<sound>/<seconds>.json

Each sound and length has its own .json, for example /fart/1.json:

sound, name, seconds, recorded (utc)
source: sample rate, channels, bits and sha256 of the master
formats: for every extension the url, mime, bytes, codec, sample_rate, channels, duration, bitrate (ffprobe facts), and for hls the segment file
license, license_url, credits

License

Sounds are CC BY-NC 4.0: use/remix them, credit noise'r'us, reach out if you intend on making a quadrillion dollars with them.

Credits

A Greg Technology project. Vocal acting by Lumen Hornstein. Named by Jared Pereira.

Fonts by j. 'mach' wust (UnifrakturMaguntia, after Peter Wiegel's Berthold Mainzer Fraktur) and Pablo Impallari (Libre Caslon Text), both under the SIL Open Font License.

Background: value noise with domain warping, after Inigo Quilez.