Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License.
The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site?
Do you know what 'guchi guchi' means? Or 'gyaa gyaa?' How about 'honobono?' Or 'eeto?' Here's a glossary that'll explain all these vocalizations, and many more. Uwaaaa!