Well there better be some good Dr. Who in there somewhere.
Exterminate! We are sentient beings!
BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
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Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#32This is so cool. I was just searching for a cat meow sound for a personal project today and was so annoyed that most of the top sites returned on Google and DDG were super spammy, ad-riddled atrocities. This is amazing, they have so many cat meows! I can't figure out if its possible to download the entire archive anywhere though..
https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&q=meow&f=%20license:%22Cre...
Wikipedia also has a list of list of pointers to different sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_sound_resources
These days, I wouldn't even consider any site that doesn't easily show the license of the available files. Needing to hunt for copyright information is a smell.
Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you actually buy a license from the BBC for these?
Go to the actual BBC page, the RES Acropolis one that has been pointed to in this very discussion several times, and your question is answered in the third sentence.
"Yes" would have been shorter.
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#34I love the descriptions. > School Computer Class, general atmosphere in pre-fabricated room, with hum from computers, keys clicking, occasional background speech, T.V. whistle from monitors & people moving around. Like did it make a big difference if the classroom was pre-fabricated? Perhaps it does to a BBC sound recorder!
It does! Love it. Anyone who grew up in UK schools will know a prefab classroom hut. So from that description I immediately know what type of reverb the sound will have.
Crucially, how different it will be from eg. a high ceiling room in a brick building.
I'd say that's a great description.
Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#35Non-blogspam url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk (2018) dang, is it possible to change the URL for this submission? The site linked loads 30+ ad slots and attempts to seemingly canvas fingerprint users.
The headline used here is misleading, too. The BBC has released this library, years ago, and the sound effects are available on terms quite similar to those of other sound effects library companies, which are not "libre", and which are augmented by some non-commercial non-endorsement requirements legally imposed upon the BBC by its Royal Charter.
Hacker News guidelines would have the title be that of the page, which is simply "BBC Sound Effects - Research & Education Space". It's HappyMag making the "clickbait" claims, not actually the BBC page.
Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#36Didn't that happen a couple of years ago?
From another site I see the date March 27, 2019
https://momofilmfest.com/bbc-opens-sound-fx-library-for-free...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> where you may earn some revenue through adverts This is commercial use and paid.
It really isn't as clear as that. Most youtube videos are not monetised, but the status could change years later. Further, in an hour long video, using a 5 second audio clip with an advertising revenue of £0.10 is considered commercial and a payment?
> with an advertising revenue of £0.10 is considered commercial and a payment?
Yes. Ignorance not excuse. There are quite a few cases where people go on GIS and find some random image, and then stock image crawling bots encounter it and extract payment with penalties.
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#38Non-blogspam url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk (2018) dang, is it possible to change the URL for this submission? The site linked loads 30+ ad slots and attempts to seemingly canvas fingerprint users.
Agree, this is not a great link.
It's not new, it's two years old and has been covered here before:
Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#39Awesome news for content creators on twitch and Youtube
It a bit cheeky, not sure if youtubers can freely use those sounds and music freely in their content
Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
#40I think all of these are available on piratebay. When I was into sound production, I found lots of high quality dumps there. There's way more than 16k floating around on piratebay, more like 500k+. And the quality of some of them is amazing. Never used 'em for commercial applications, obviously, because hobby. But it's a lot of fun remixing them. Another interesting source of sound effects are pirated games. Last of…
As a kid in the 90s, whenever I played a game (particularly demo versions of a lot of games, which in that era were distributed on CDs sold with videogame magazines), I'd eventually look into its folder and search for assets. For years, I kept a collection of interesting .wav files I found in these games, because I wanted to make a video game of my own. I'd also exchange these .wavs with a friend at school, who kept his own collection for the same reason.
I vaguely remember using few sound effects from Star Trek: Generations and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith in a school play around 5th or 6th grade :). The sound of the base hangar door from Mysteries of the Sith is still etched deeply in my mind (along with surrounding dialogue).
(None one of us knew the concept of intellectual property back then.)