Searching for Sound
Searching for text is soooo 1996. (Well, yes, it's vital and useful, too, but stay with me. I'm trying to do a humorously elitist and ironic intro here.) There's more to search online than just—words, for crying out loud! There's audio, too.
Search engines do not index complete audio files. That is to say, you can't expect Google to have indexed an MP3 that contains all the words to a Tina Turner song. When you search for a sound, you have to use a little savvy.
How you search depends on what you're looking for, and what you're looking for might be a sound effect or a quote from a TV show. Except for songs, I find that most of the sounds that are online are in WAV format.
If you're looking for sound effects or certain types ...
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