If you've searched far and wide for the theme song to "Knight Rider" or want to hear Stewie from "Family Guy" say, "Victory is mine!" because it makes you smile, head over to Soundboard.com. Most "soundboards" on the Web are flash apps dedicated to a specific television show, movie, or character, where you can play listen to memorable quotes or moments. At Soundboard.com, you can find thousands of soundboards from television shows, movies, entire podcasts, and even video games. And if you have your own sounds, you can make your own soundboard.
Soundboard.com sports almost 5,500 soundboards and over 70,000 sounds, so you'll probably find the sound clip that you're looking for. You can search for a character, a specific theme song, or a keyword right from the front page, or browse the soundboard categories. The service has soundboards for music and movies as expected, but also has historical sound bytes, celebrity quotes, recorded prank phone calls, and more.
One cool feature of Soundboard.com is that you can sign up for an account (free) and upload your own tracks and sound recordings to create your own soundboard. The site has templates for soundboards that look much like stand-alone media players, so you can play or pause long audio clips, or fast-forward to the good parts. Once you've created your soundboard, the service will host it and give you the embed code you need to post it on your own blog or Web site, or even in your MySpace or Facebook profile.
If you like, you can add your soundboard to the site's Board Share service, which gives you a number of premade tracks and audio clips to choose from when making your own soundboard. Using Board Share, you can pick and choose tracks on existing soundboards to make your own, and then you can put yours back in the pool for other people to remix and mash up when they make their own.
If you're not interested in creating your own content, there's plenty already available at Soundboard to keep you occupied. Featured soundboards make their way to the front page, as do newly added ones. Several of the soundboards available on the site already have embed code available for them, so if you find one you love you can share it with the world.
The soundboards available also have other relevant information, such as the name of the creator and sometimes the Web site of the show or group of people behind it. For example, some soundboards, like the one with recordings of a World of Warcraft player shouting at his guildmates online, have a link to the homepage of the subject--in this case, the site of the guild who recorded its angry friend.
Soundboard.com is more of a time-sink than anything else. I found myself poking around the different categories and listening to audio clips from popular TV shows and movies all afternoon. That being said, I can see how someone who creates podcasts or just wants to upload their own tracks into a soundboard could use the service to add something special to their own site.
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