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sound
📅 Updated:2025-11-30
🕒 Created:2013-02-25
🆔 ID:3575
Description
This tag is used for posts that contain audio content of any kind, including music, sound effects, and voice acting.
Note that this tag applies only to Flash-based, WebM-based or MP4-based posts, as these are the only formats supported by e621 that can carry audio.
See also:
- ai_generated_audio - Posts featuring audio that has been partially or wholly AI generated. Usage of this tag upon upload is mandatory if a post contains AI assisted or generated audio.
- audio_sampling - Posts that primarily feature sampled audio from commercial sources such as video games.
- music
- music_video - An animation created for the purpose of showcasing a musical piece.
- music_only - Animations with a music track, but no sound effects.
- synced_to_music - Animations that are synchronized to a music track. Not always music videos.
- no_sound - The opposite of sound, i.e. silence.
- sound_warning - A warning tag to indicate the presence of loud sounds in a post, usually at the very beginning.
- voice_acted - Posts featuring voiced dialogue or other vocal sound effects. Voice actors may be credited in the description of a post or using a collaborator tag that ends in `_(va)`.
- sound_effects: mainly used for written sound effects including approximated sounds (examples: bzzzt, kerploosh)
- onomatopoeia: Any word in a picture that serves as a sound effect. onomatopoeias use actual words to describe the sound (examples: boom, buzz)
