• Bbc Sound Effects Library Download

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You can now download sounds like a South American parrot talking and a long wood creak

Over 16,000 sound effects have been made available for free from the BBC library.

The archive includes effects that have been used on the corporation’s radio output since the 1920s.

Now, the general public can download them for free for the first time. The library includes the likes of a South American parrot talking and screeching, an 11 month old baby boy playing with toys, and a 16-foot speedboat with a 40hp outboard pulling up to stop.

There is a catch with the library. Files can only be used for “personal, educational, or research purposes” as per the RemArc licence. You can access the sound effects in the BBC library here. The entire archive is tagged and searchable, making it easy to find all your obscure sound effects needs.

Meanwhile, the BBC has secured a ton of big names for its “Glastonbury replacement” festival, The Biggest Weekend. The event will take place in Belfast, Perth, Swansea and Coventry over the late May Bank Holiday weekend (May 25-28).

Florence + The Machine, Liam Gallagher, Taylor Swift, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Beck, Bastille, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Sam Smith, Camila Cabello, Wolf Alice, Franz Ferdinand, Lykke Li and more are all set to appear at the event. Tickets and more information can be found here.

Here’s the bad news: If you’re an aspiring sound designer or you’re looking for some random noise to insert into a big project you’re working on, the BBC’s new archive of more than 16,000 free sound effects won’t help you much. They’re all bound by a RemArc licence that prohibits using these files in commercial work.

That said, if you’re working on any personal or educational projects—or just need to know what “Pystyll Rhadn” falls in North Wales sounds like—you’re in luck. The BBC’s collection now gives you access to a huge collection of sounds for different objects, locations, and actions. Heck, the BBC’s listing for sounds of “1 woman approaches and stops” eats up more than a page worth of files.

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The BBC’s complete archive of free sounds, which takes up 641 webpages, is completely searchable by keyword—thank god. You can also preview any files on the site that you want to listen to before downloading them as WAVs.

Bbc Sound Effects Library Download

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How you use these files from there is your own business, but the BBC’s Sound Effects archive is a great bookmark to have in your browser for the next time you need a sound of anyone doing, well, anything. And it’s a much better solution than ponying up $5,000 for the BBC’s official royalty-free sound collection.