Task 13: Acid Jazz

For this task, I searched for a quail sound. Is that too much to ask for? Well, no quail sound came up so, filled with disappointment, I decided to find an elephant trumpeting sound (perhaps this was an original thought on my part, or perhaps the fact that the icon for the animal noises is the outline of an elephant had something to do with that choice). I wasn't horribly impressed by the elephant noises, so I decided I'd listen to some music loops. I found one that was called Death Trombone. The name intrigued me, so I listened to it. I was impressed by the way it looped (I had to push play again really fast to make it loop)--the end went right back into the beginning very nicely.
I tried looking for a dolphin sound affect, but all I found were two strange ambient/electronic clips. Where are the Flipper sound effects?



I read about their stringent guidelines for being able to be a contributor to the Soundsnap collection. Let's just say, don't expect to record things on your cell phone and be able to upload them to that website. As a side note, I'd just like to say that they don't have a single dolphin sound, but they do have "Large metal dumpster door latch movement with an impact and sliding." In fact, there were five pages of results for "dumpster." And let's hear it for one minute and eighteen seconds of "Scrabble game with hand in bag and tile movement," which can be found under "Sports." I suppose we could have sound effects on our website, but I'm having trouble imagining it not being cheesy. I did find some sound effects of "Handling and turning thin pages of a hardcover" though!

As for the other part of the task, I liked Artist Server for its list of genres and sub-genres. Under the heading of "Various" I found Acid Jazz and Game Soundtracks. I also found Melodic Trance (which wasn't really what I was expecting from the name), and under Rock, the oh so "Psychedelic." Other than that, however, I wasn't too impressed with Artist Server. It's just not very visually appealing (and don't say anything about what my blog looks like). I sampled some Acid Jazz--it was pretty acidic and yet jazzy. I think I like Amie Street the most. It seems more user-friendly than the others.

Why no quail sounds?