/pre> <h2 id="authentication">Authentication</h2> <p>The Freesound API offers two authentication strategies: token-based and OAuth2. The first one is simpler, but you need OAuth2 to access resources that imply a logged in user, including downloading sounds (but not lossy preview versions).</p> <h3 id="token_authentication">Token authentication</h3> <p>To use the token authentication strategy, <a href="https://freesound.org/apiv2/apply">request new API credentials</a> at Freesound. Then you'll be shown a tab