Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
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#2How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
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#3Another one: https://yamanote.app/
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#4Ebisu has the "Harry Lime" theme from "The Third Man"? Wasn't expecting to recognise any... I wonder who was a fan of that film.
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#5Another one: https://yamanote.app/
Interestingly this one seems it is from before 高輪ゲートウェイ (Takanawa Gateway) station which opened in 2020, but the numbering shows the gap (JY 25 -> JY 27). That led me to looking it up, and turns out that they introduced the numbering in 2016, and that already came pre-planned with the gap ready [1].
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#6Ebisu has the "Harry Lime" theme from "The Third Man"? Wasn't expecting to recognise any... I wonder who was a fan of that film.
Yes, it's that song.
The station is named after a beer company that operates there, and they used their beer CM song for the station chime as well.
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#7The first time I got off at and heard Komagome's tune I mistakenly thought it was some halloween special because it was late October at the time, and the song felt so distinct and unique.
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#8How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
Pffft, this is fair use
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#9Why don't I remember the Ueno station being an electronic office telephone ringtone...
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#10How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
Good question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training.
He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though.