I am looking for things similar to which I have had and deleted over the years. One was a BBC SFX library 20CD. Another was a 9GB archive of weird bits for building trance records, and it had sub categories including vintage speeches, NASA moon landing audio, and all manner of odd bits.
I'm trying my hand at doing documentaries now. I need torrent links to massive archives of audio. I'm thinking someone here must know a guy that knows a guy… I'm finding that it's possible to onesie-twosie find bits on Youtube. But that is sub-optimal. I need archives!
These appear to be on Soulseek (a peer to peer program): https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1
https://tpb.party/search/BBC%20SFX%20library/1/99/0
Perfect, thanks. I wish I could remember the name of that archive, if a version of it even still exists…
holy shit
google "bbc sound library download"
and lo, there was a top result that is the BBC. Behold it has all the SFX and you can download them.....
it's not difficult, they are downloadable for free.
OH LOOK!
THIRD RESULT DOWN.https://github.com/FThompson/BBCSoundDownloader
YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!!.. now at least make an effort in future.. Jesus wept
edit to add.. github says 16000 sounds but it's over 33,000 sounds now according to the BBC library
Appreciate the courtesy of typing it into search, I guess you missed the second part of the request, and also the part about "looking for things like" e.g. a place to find said torrents where there is a one-click download to get what I am looking for, and not the BBC website to click through 64,000 pages to find 32,000 download links and solve 4,000 captchas over several hundred hours of work to get a folder full of subfolders of files.. So thank you for Googling it for me and getting up on a high horse thinking you've in been any way helpful, that's an incredibly midwit mindset. "muh can't think past google must be google iz answer".
Like Benny hill said, when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME. Although in this case, pretty sure it's just you. Hope this helps, and much love.
what part of the github thing did you not comprehend ?????
the rest of your response just backs up my point. you're lazy and expect other people to do the work for you really.
so give it a rest ands top attempting pedantry very, very, very badly.
for your education please read this extract from the github page
"This program requires Python 3. Download and extract the repository ZIP and with Python installed, run download.py by double-clicking the file or entering python download.py or python3 download.py in a command prompt or terminal window. The downloaded samples will be saved in the sounds/ directory of the folder containing download.py. The total size of the sample library is 284GB.
By default, the program will download 10 samples at a time. This amount figures to be a safe value to avoid sending too many simultaneous requests to BBC's servers, but the value can be easily modified by changing the value of THREAD_COUNT in the code. When determining what to download, the program first checks what already exists in the sounds/ directory to avoid redownloading samples (i.e. if any downloads fail or the program is stopped without downloading the entire library)."
*sigh* Also You'll find it was very famously Oscar Wilde who first said “When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.” and not Benny fucking Hill.
care to provide any other pedantry fails????
"the rest of your response just backs up my point. you're lazy and expect other people to do the work for you really."
---> I find myself in rare full agreement with grumpy dude Pax on this one.
And What's the UK BBC website got to do with anything?
I think maybe you're a bit new to this - I reckon you're really meaning a VERY infamous aspect from Ye Olde BBC --- Their "radiophonic Workshop" dept -- they TRULY DID have the monopoly on film and music sound effects for decades....
In fact - there's a LONG TERM hilarious running joke/hidden message that EVEN today - film creators [i mean proper BIG budgET types] or rather their POSt PROD SOUND people - use one sample repeatedly as a secret media masonic joke from the early BBC catalogue....
**** Anyone here know which sound I'm on about?? :-D **** ?
If not I'll post it... guarantee some of you audiophile types will know it afterwards.
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No, you're really too much of an asshole to waste keystrokes on.
away and chase parked cars. seems to be your intellectual level
what sort of sicko torrents a bunch of rar files
notice how this guy looks for everyone else to do basic stuff for him?
all it took was googling "bbc sfx archive download" and the first and third result were golden.
not the first time that fundamentals have been requested when they were a very basic web search away.
and you are spot on about the rars. the only excuse for the is large files on newsgroups, otherwise it's just bollocks
Good topic for this site in my view and one not really done in depth before...
My take as someone who had an Akai sampler back in 1995 was as i collected sounds in next few decades - the web had SHIT loads of decent and bootleg / shared collections and this peaked in 2005 ish. That was the wild west digital era - the hammer slowly came down on sites and torrent outlets offering these afterwards.
Hope you find some sources via ppl here... you're after innovative sounds etc - not just the latest council flat created drum n bass hi-hat pattern everyone can do with one finger and one braincell... :-)
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I just read through this brawl and nobody seemed to have pointed out that there was a magnetic torrent URL for the BBC SFX library (305GB) at the bottom of the GitHub page:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:277UI76DIYAAPS2LQC3R3XF4PXCS5X5H&dn=BBCSoundEffectsComplete
well done, for actually looking at it and winning the prize! you win 10 internets for doing more research than he did! :-)
6 of which will be withheld for taxes.
#4 inter$ internets is still very much a win!!
You'd think so but the feds require payment of their 6 internets before you receive your 10. Cough them up or go to jail!!!!
I'll take that striped suit but i'd need a hardback book for the back of the trousers to prevent attack from the back!
It's a dying art and I should have retired a long time ago.
Seriously, though, I could spend 24 hours a day every day doing five seconds of g°oğLiňG and I still wouldn't be able to keep up with what I see in my 45 minute ration of intuh-net. I used to reply with photos of baby birds being fed by their mothers but they, the addressee, may as well have been on the beach at Sint Maarten.
That and the time I spend pointing out to people with a certain reputation for the troof that the article they just linked to was written by Sean Adl-Tabatabai.
No doubt my winnings are being kept in trust by a Nigerian prince.
Do you know his history with David Icke?
i knew that had productions together but i'll be honest , apart from his bullshit news websites under various names, i don't know much about him bud
My memory is a bit murky now but he was part of The People's Voice project which brought together quite a number of 'alternative' voices for regular online TV programmes which was beset by problems from the outset and descended into factious bickering and eventual collapse. SAT somehow managed to run off with the 'keys' as far as the domain name was concerned and has capitalised on it since.
I just discovered that SAT kind of has a Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean_Adl-Tabatabai) but whoever wrote it seems to be under the impression that David Icke is a contributor which I think could not be further from the truth - in fact, David Icke has been a subject of the site's fake news.
At the time, I watched TPV closely from afar, if you know what I mean. I had tried to get involved but it was like an ego pile-up and was glad than none of my e-mails were answered. Around that time, there were shed loads of money floating around, mainly from public donations, which attracted a lot of dodgy people surfaced and SAT was one of them.