Sound Constraints Is releasing 54 free weekly sample packs this year to tease their premium sample packs - These have Serum Presets, Samples, Loops -
A download link can be found in their quick youtube video - https://youtu.be/pKP1SXJX5wU
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I wrote a python script to download all the links from the original post into the current directory.
edit: all the direct links to zip files on this page
https://gist.github.com/LightspeedLife/47b9cccb13306802b6f8c9dd1be58f99
edit: See Royalty Free Sample Packs
My python’s kinda shit, but I wrote it to the best of my ability. It will skip over files that already exist in the current directory, but won’t check that they’re actually readable zip files. So if it exits in the middle of writing, it will leave a broken zip that it will skip over next time it’s run. Just a heads-up.
edit bc you’re not a bunch of chumps who will just download some admittedly sketchy code from some anon on mediafire – and if you are, stop doing that!
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I suppose another way of looking at it would’ve been to use the command line tool ‘wget’ with a list of the links.
true, but I reeeeaaaalllyy didn’t want to have to add all those links by hand, and now I can share my horrible software with all of you, too <3
How did you get the links (formatted) in your python script?
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I grabbed the whole page with urllib and read it with BeautifulSoup, then wrote all the links to .zip files to a separate file, which I copied and pasted into the program.
… I’m not proud of it.
Yes. I would’ve saved the whole page and used say grep to extract the links, copy and paste (tiny bit of modifying some broken links) into a text file list for wget to process. No manually typing/adding all 175 links needed.
I’m not criticizing using a python script or the way in which you went about a solution. Can be a bit of programming practice 
For those people (like me) who the python code linked above didn’t work for:
linkslist.txt (had duplicates) (13.3 KB)
linkslist.txt (fixed) (13.2 KB)
wget -i linkslist.txt
or
xargs -n 1 curl -O < linkslist.txt
Be prepared, though—it’s like 60 48 gigs of samples.
Peace.
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This would’ve been a good idea! I feel much more comfortable with the linux command line. I think it just popped into my head that Python is often used for web-scraping, and I’d gotten my head set on it.
It was definitely this! I used to be much more familiar with Python, and my, was it a shock how much I’d forgotten, how quickly! I didn’t think you were criticizing 
I hope everyone gets some milage out of it, but I also wanted to enunciate the fact that it is such. a. haaaack. 
This guy’s got the idea…
The python3 code seemed to work for me here (not that I fully tested this though at that amount of download). There is ‘no progress’ indicator shown like ‘wget’ (by default), so it can kinda look as though nothing is happening.
That would have been my bad, then—I am not fluent in python. Different strokes for different folks!
This time in BASH:
And it gets ALL the links.
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Mass download without funky bash scripts:
I used a Firefox Addon Plugin: Simple Mass Downloader, which works on selected text!. Select text of first post, right-click and choose from context menu: Add selection Links to list → select ZIP, start download. Done. Ready to sleep… And wake up with full windows partition 
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/simple-mass-downloader/
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More suggestions for new well filtered / sorted with mostly single hits?
Modern soundpack suggestions (non-commercial please), but bigger well maintained/organised semi-personal archives somebody wants to share? Because this thread and packs are OLD and none of that as I read the comments:)
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Oh wow, probably need to buy a second mouse before i get to the last downloads…
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Hello amici!!!
if we’re about free samplepacks, here’s mine:
https://www.laffik.com/freebies/Laffick's%20Top%20Drumset%20Samplepack.zip
It’s acoustic snares wooden and metal, crash and hihat.
All the best!!!
Laffik
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Who holds the copyright for a song that you create using Royalty Free Samples (Your lyrics and recording over Beat created with Royalty Free samples)?
For example, If I choose to create and release a song that contains Ghosthack samples, do I hold the copyrights to my recording?
When I purchase a beat from Pond5 or from SFRbeats, for example,
the copyright for the beat itself belongs to Pond5 or SFRbeats,
however, when I record something over these non-exclusive beats and release the recording,
then I am the copyright holder of these recordings.
Is this also the case with recordings that contain Ghosthack samples, or PrimeLoop samples or equivalent, or can I scratch utilizing Ghosthack, PrimeLoops, SoundRaw, LoopMasters samples altogether?
I am inquiring before I invest any time or money into an avenue that may lead to nowhere
It’s written in Ghostshack, Zero-G and similar providers’ licence files. All rights are yours. You only can not sell nor share separate files from libraries. That’s what they say there.
Personally I think that bit of own authorship is in that cases gone. Making tracks of loops is sort of managerial work, instead of creative work.
Why not make your own clips and build modular track of it? You can only exchange mixdowns and MIDI notations of chords and notes between modules. To make it sound. Then build main project of clips.
It has always been like that, since mod2samp was invented on Amiga.