Openverse has reached a crucial milestone of including over 1,000,000 Creative Commons licensed audio files in our collection of GPL-compatible media. When we launched audio earlier this year we included roughly ten thousand files.
The growth of the collection of the year is a testament to our contributors, partners, and audio sources. In particular, work to refactor our Provider DAGs, the scripts which collect Openverse media from 3rd party APIs, led by sponsored contributor @stacimc, helped us reach this exciting milestone. Thanks to Staci and all the Openverse contributors who made this possible!
Openverse indexes audio from Jamendo, Freesound, and Wikimedia Commons. Do you have another source of openly-licensed audio you’re excited about? Please send Openverse contributors your suggestions using our GitHub issue form.