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BBC Sounds App launched as iPlayer Radio replacement

29/06/2018

The BBC has soft launched BBC Sounds, a new audio app intended to replace the BBC iPlayer Radio. BBC Sounds brings together BBC live and on-demand radio, music and podcasts into a single personalised app which is available in iOS and Android versions. BBC Sounds is designed to learn from the user’s listening habits, providing one-tap access to the latest episodes of favourite BBC podcasts and radio shows and making available an 80,000 hour library […]

BBC Sound Effects free to download

26/04/2018

The BBC has made 16,000 Sound Effects in WAV format free to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but the RemArc Licence permits them to be used for personal, educational or research purposes. The entire library is searchable and a database containing metadata about the Sound Effects is available on a dedicate site here. Examples on the first few pages of the database include a […]