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You’re listening to the streets.

Knock down your arial. Bop Spotter is a cool little project where someone set up a box in San Francisco to listen to and try to detect the tunes people play in cars, on boomboxes – the tunes that echo out to the world. Inside the box is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam […]

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33,000 sound effects from the BBC archives.

OMG. The BBC has just opened the doors wider to its incredible sound effect library, now featuring over 33,000 samples that you can download for free. The collection has been available to the public since 2018, and it’s now doubled in size (!) These recordings take our ears back to the 1920s, capturing sounds both […]