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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)

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Post by hnarn »

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #5

> The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license[1]. So for commercial purposes you need to licence them, as described here[2]: > We provide various options from single downloads you choose ($5) to the entire library on hard drive ($1,995), to annual licensing for multi-user media production companies [1] http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org…

So the “available for download” part is at the very least bad phrasing and at worst potentially misleading. Obviously anything you pay for and license is “available for download”, but if it’s not free to use then what’s the point? If anything it should simply state that the effects are “available”, as in they are now available for purchase.

Also, isn’t the BBC one of many publicly funded media outlets? It should at the very least be free to use for those who pay to keep the service alive, and ideally completely freely licensed as I think any public work should be.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by MrsPeaches »

easytiger wrote: post #129
MrsPeaches wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Some Labour MPs, at some point, proposed a group of people should take control of the editorial policy of the BBC and newspapers. This does indeed seem to be what this person is saying. Thanks for putting in the effort to parse, though I do have to apologise for the fact that it hardly seems to have been worth it!

So you deny it to be so?

Do you have any evidence for your claims?

Meanwhile in the real world, Charles Moor, former editor of the Telegraph, is mooted to become the chairman of the BBC and Paul Dacre, former editor of the Daily Mail, is to be head of ofcom, the media regulator.

Not exactly paragons of impartiality are they?

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by iso1631 »

easytiger wrote: post #128
tialaramex wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you do not win a general election you cannot form a government. On the contrary. All you need to form a government is some way to get a majority for Confidence, and all you'd need to make that a working government is Confidence and Supply. That's all Theresa May had, she did not win the election but she had DUP promises to vote for her on the question of confidence and where necessary for supply, and that was en…

The last election the second party lost by a landslide, they have no opportunity to form a government.

Of the last 4 Prime Minsters (Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown) of the UK, none of them became prime minister by heading a party who won a majority of seats at an election -- the last person to do that was Tony Blair in 1997. Before then it was Margaret Thatcher in 1979. It's an exception, rather than the rule.

Cameron did win a plurarity of seats in 2010, but his 36% of the vote wasn't enough on it's own.

It's exceedingly likely the next Prime Minister will equally be appointed without a public vote.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by bb123 »

dotBen wrote: post #110
bb123 wrote: post #47

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Thats very interesting, you seem to know a lot about how the BBC is structured. Do you mind if I ask how the for-profit prohibition of their charter aligns with the ad-supported international BBC News websites and broadcasts on BBC Worldwide?

I used to work at BBC and was part of the team that split the BBC News website up into UK and International (UKFS and IFS) and some of the early advertising additions. BBC Worldwide is an independent for-profit organization and, for the most part, responsible for the commercialization of BBC assets outside of the UK as the BBC itself is not able to commercialize. Assets like Top Gear are an example of that - the show…

That is really cool, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I really consider the BBC is a national treasure and I hope we can preserve it.

Re: BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

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Post by aaronpkelly »

NKCSS wrote: post #94
NKCSS wrote: post #93

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You can just scrape it if you wanted to; grab the src of all the elements and page through them all. Use the names/descriptions for proper naming.

I just checked; the site uses this CSV to build the UI: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv So no need to actually scrape; you can download the CSV and download all the individual files from that. base url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/

Thanks, I used that CSV to download all the WAV files, but the final size was... very large... so I converted them all to OPUS :)

The total size is now ~17G. If anyone wants the converted files, I made a .torrent: https://tinyurl.com/y6xn8ksj

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