![]() ![]() But patience will almost certainly be rewarded. The service is apparently still in beta and will probably get a few kinks ironed out in due course. So there you have it – a marvelous resource of sound files for your amusement or edification. Given that the file names are just numbers, naming the saved file appropriately would be a very good idea. ![]() However, clicking the download button brings the file up in Windows Media Player, where it can be heard, and if found to be a keeper, captured with a Save As. In my experience (using Win 7, 64-bit, IE), clicking for Listen produces nothing useful. Once a list of interesting candidates is obtained, you may click on one and will see something like this. Here is a list of arbitrarily chosen searches and the number of pages returned in each case (25 entries per page): For example “cat bell” gets results that have the words “cathedrals” and “bells” in the description. Multiple entries separated by spaces do an “and” filter. For example, enter “ca” and you see files associated with cats, cathedrals and cattle (and probably more). An entry in the Search field filters the results almost instantaneously. You may have the page display 10, 25, 50 or 100 entries per page. With this many sound files, unfiltered browsing is far too mind-numbing to be of practical use. ![]() The first access to the web page takes a bit of time to show itself, probably because it must set up the filter capability. 1 sec.) to several minutes in length.Ī spreadsheet file listing all the sounds, the associated file names, their length and category may be found here (thanks to Paul Breeze over on KVR for cluing me into this resource). I certainly did not check out every one, but all the ones I downloaded were stereo, 32-bit float. Check the web site for the full license terms … and whatever you do, when using these sounds, do not try to represent yourself as affiliated with the BBC or you’ll make that organization very cross! The BBC has made an extensive collection of sound clips available for free use by anyone engaged in non-commercial pursuits like education, research or just plain personal fun. This month’s freebie is quite a find (and a very recent one at that). wav format, available for free for educational, research or other non-commercial purposes. Here are over 16,000 sounds of all variety in high-quality stereo. ![]()
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