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Contents
- SFX Discography Project 13 – Known Unknowns
- SFX Discography Project 12 – Catalogue Extraction pt. 3 – Counting Up
- SFX Discography 11 – Catatlogue Number Extraction pt. 2 – Simple Scanning
- SFX Discography Project 10 – Catatlogue No. Extraction pt. 1
- SFX Discography Project 9 – Ford Cortina 1600
- SFX Discography Project 8 – Matrix Revelations
- SFX Discography Project 7 – Collections Collated
- SFX Discography Project 6
- SFX Discography Project 5
SFX Discography Project 13 – Known Unknowns
Here I am, pleased that I have a much better database than I had previously. I’ve removed a load of silly guesswork on where records should be. I’ve fixed a plain wrong pair from Mike’s Collection. I still need to add all the new ones I’ve found, assuming they are real, to really get all…
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SFX Discography Project 12 – Catalogue Extraction pt. 3 – Counting Up
In the last post I’d extracted 1720 unique catalogue numbers from the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and pasted them into Excel. As well as deduplicating the list I ran quick sort to begin the process of matching up what was in the catalogue with what I had in my list. ContentsSpot D MistakeTrue Cat?IntermissionCatalogue…
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SFX Discography 11 – Catatlogue Number Extraction pt. 2 – Simple Scanning
After a brief introduction to Regular Expressions last time it’s time to actually scan the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and turn it into a text file. Happily, I had already photographed this whole thing in early 2022. That taught me that the OCR task was not at all easy and I put it to…
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SFX Discography Project 10 – Catatlogue No. Extraction pt. 1
What does this mean to you? The EC and NH are prefixes for Sound Effects Centre catalogue numbers, so that’s a clue. The capital letters are a complete alphabet minus the letters I and O, which is another. Expressed Purpose This is a regular expression. You don’t come across them in everyday programmes like MS…
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SFX Discography Project 9 – Ford Cortina 1600
Here’s a case study on a BBC Sound Effects record that’s on Discogs with an interesting* note. This is EC 19F, Motor Car: Ford Cortina 1600. https://www.discogs.com/release/7598199-No-Artist-Motor-Car-Ford-Cortina-1600 My interest is aroused by this note about a note. “Notes on paper sleeve from pressing plant which state “PU58, JOB 27422, 150 pressings, 4-3-75” Field recordings made…
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SFX Discography Project 8 – Matrix Revelations
Late on in the collating (see previous post) I noticed these two copies of EC 91C – English Church Bells – had different matrix numbers. And I had to sit down to absorb this information. I was rocked back on my heels by this because it means an assumption I had about dating these records…
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SFX Discography Project 7 – Collections Collated
The SFX 7” adventure has been on hiatus. I was making steady progress on the automatic cropping of the labels, but hit a bit of a wall with the many things I needed to do basically daunting me a bit, whereupon I lost momentum. Then I got busy on other things and I’ve been needing…
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SFX Discography Project 6
Let’s review the steps I’ve worked out so far and add some I haven’t in order to get an overview of how things are coming together. Contents1 – Deskew2 or ?- OCR3 & 6 – floodFill4 – Magic Select the label5 – Crop and Resize.7 Python PosterizeConclusion 1 – Deskew Although all the photos will…
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SFX Discography Project 5
ContentsMagic Tricks?Separation AnxietyPosterize PaintOptional Centre ExtraMask CutConclusion Magic Tricks? Rather unexpectedly, Magic Select does not take its foreground image untouched. Here you can see the original and Magic Selected image overlaid. I’ve moved the cropped label around to try and line it up with the original, but it’s bigger. I’ve aligned it so you can…
Hi, I have recently acquired a large amount of these discs. I knew, if someone did… you would have a sort of list.. if you are missing any numbers I am cataloguing the ones I have at the moment.
Hi Rob, Sorry about the very, very late reply. How is your cataloguing going?