BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence

Re:BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use unde... by optimuspaul on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:35AM (#16867238)

Wow! Decades ago when I was a theatre sound designer I had those on vinyl and used them all the time. This brings back memories.

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Re:BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use unde... by ryan-allen on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:55AM (#16867394)

I wonder if there's a mass download of all these sounds?

I'm just lazy. These are epic!

EDIT: Working on a one liner :)

EDIT: I'm sure it's like some curl and xargs and sed, it's been a while...

EDIT: Oh yeah, I win at internet:

curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv | grep -Eow "[0-9]+.wav" | xargs -I % curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/%>%

EDIT: Wait I suck that doesn't work. This does:

curl http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv | grep -Eow "[0-9]+.wav" | xargs -I % curl -O http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/%

-O for dOwnlOad

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Re:BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use unde... by jungletek on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:23PM (#16869677)

Thanks, seems to be chugging along fine in an MSYS2 terminal on Windows.

Now to give them better names than the numbers used by BBC. Any solutions/suggestions?

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Re:BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use unde... by jungletek on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:22PM (#16872413)

Actually, some of those transfers ended up timing out, and I have no way to know which files are incomplete.

Ended up using Notepad++ and a simple regex in the find/replace dialog to prepend ########.wav with the URL, then chucked it into JDownloader's link grabber. 283.83GB, BTW. I may end up compressing these with FLAC to save the space. If anyone is curious, the regex I used was: (([0-9])+.wav) and replaced with http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/$&

Now for the naming and splitting by CD name...

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Re:BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use unde... by max_foreman on Monday April 23, 2018 @11:14AM (#16904108)

nice ! GG

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