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Universal Category System (UCS)

Sound effects libraries where the file names and metadata follow the Universal Category System (UCS), championed by renowned sound supervisor Tim Nielsen & more

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    City Life Sound Effects Athens Rooftop Play Track 9+ sounds included $29

    Want the sounds of Athens? The Athens Rooftop sound effects library delivers 9 long ambiences recorded from different perspectives, and at different times of day – from calm mornings to busy days and nights.

    In order to capture Athens’ soundscape in all its nuances, very low-noise Neumann Microphones and Sound Devices Recorders were used to record long takes (between 8 and 21 minutes each) totaling to over 2 hours of audio.

    The recording location was a two floor rooftop on a three storey building above a very small street with no nearby traffic that allowed recording the city with some distance from above: Traffic, restaurants, bars, construction work, birds – in some evening recordings we hear crickets in the distance, in some day recordings the AC of a neighbouring flat is running.

    Most of the recordings can also be used to represent a general city ambience, while some takes include specific regional sounds like Greek walla, churches and cicadas characteristic for the Greek capital.

    2025 Update
    • New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
    • Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
    • Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)
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  • Insect Sound Effects Ultrasonic Insects Bundle 2024 Play Track 3000+ sounds included, 221 mins total $200

    Want to get brand new sound material from nature? Get all the sounds from Ultrasonic Insects Volume 1, Ultrasonic Insects Volume 2 and Ultrasonic Insects Volume 3 at a special price.

    Recorded over three years, Ultrasonic Insects Bundle contains more than 130 insect songs and flights, recorded with precision, patience and love. All insects were recorded in quiet environments or studio with close-miking for unparalleled quality. Each insect is identified by its scientific name.

    Get the isolated song of 75 species of bush-crickets, grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas and other noisy insects. Pitch down the sounds up to 4 octaves (and even more!) and find inspiration for your next project: creatures, monsters, unreal insects or animals but also computer beeps, alarms, lasers… there are plenty of sounds to be created.

    KEY FEATURES:

    • 27 species of grasshoppers
    • 21 species of bush-crickets
    • 12 species of crickets
    • 4 species of cicadas
    • 12 species of flying insects
    • Rare death’s head hawk-moth vocalisations
    • 2 species of Madagascar hissing cockroaches
    • 20 stereo ambiances recorded with MKH 8040


    SPECS:

    • 192 KHz/24 bit
    • Metadata UCS-compliant
    • Each species is identified with scientific name, common name and picture
    • Solo insects recorded with Sanken CO-100K
    • No insects were harmed while recording this library (except a few mosquitos!)

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Monster Library Vol 3 Play Track 168 sounds included $15

    You are the chosen one to defeat these horrible creatures
    You can face a dangerous Dragon, enter the dangerous caves of the Spiders, face the giant Trolls, challenge the skilled Goblin or fight with the terrifying Orc.

    From Khron Studio we have created a total of 168 sounds, divided into simple categories and covering the most important actions of 5 types of monster. You will be able to find a large number of variations for each sound that will make your monsters feel more alive than ever.

    All creatures have sounds from:
    – Attack
    – Roar
    – Steps
    – Pain
    – Die
    – Some special abilities like flying.
    More about the pack
    • Intuitive file naming
    • All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental sounds [Use them again & again]
    • Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a
    Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
    • Totally mono compatibility
    • All sounds have several variations.
    • Include Dragon sounds
    Features
    • 168 unique monster sounds
    • Number of Audio Waves: 168
    • Format: 96 Hz / 24 bits
    • Do Sound FX loop: Some
    • Minutes of audio provided: 4 minutes and 18 second

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  • Sci-Fi Sound Effects Modular Mecha Play Track 800 sounds included, 84 mins total $80

    It is with great pleasure that I introduce Modular Mecha; a vintage anime sound library made for those who love the sonic landscape of iconic real robot animations like Mobile Suit Gundam, Patlabor and Macross. Two years of research and experimentation have resulted in this collection of sounds. Every sound in the library has been run through my eurorack system, specifically assembled in an attempt to recreate vintage sounds and effects. From explosions to interfaces, mechanical movements and lasers, to schwings and impacts, Modular Mecha has a little bit of everything to cover your Mecha needs!

    This project has been a labor of love and I hope you enjoy these sounds as much I did making them!

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  • Human Sound Effects Bravo! Dramatic Audiences Play Track 303 sounds included, 85 mins total $125

    Ladies and gentleman, please put your hands together for the most dramatic crowd library you’ve ever heard!
    Bravo! Dramatic Audiences places you front and center with laughs, reactions, quietudes, cheers, and applause that will bring your project to life. A wide range of crowds were captured for this library, including those attending live theater, stand-up comedy, music concerts, and more. Venue sizes vary from small to large, interior and exterior, offering great flexibility while matching to picture. The size of the crowds range from as few as 30 people, all the way up to 200, allowing you to mix and match sounds for easy scalability depending on the project at hand.

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  • Car Sound Effects CARS | Opel Astra H CDTi 1.7 Play Track 327+ sounds included $22

    This car library brings you a comprehensive Sound Effects collection of the 125 PS Opel Astra H CDTi 1.7 (Diesel Engine).

    You get anything you need from opening and closing doors, hood, trunk, windows, glove department. Pushing buttons, hazard lights, ignition, window wipers, seat adjustments, several pass-bys, idle mixtures, pull aways and approaches.
    And most importantly lots of diverse driving sounds, simultaneously recorded with 5mics (2x Engine, 2x Exhaust, 2x Interior) so you can easily blend between the sounds to perfectly match you picture.

    All source sounds were recorded with a Sonosax SX-R4+ and a Sound Devices MixPre-D with a Sennheiser MKH 8050 + MKH 30 M/S rig (Interior),twoRode NT-1A (Engine)and a MKH8060 (Exhaust).

    All sounds come with embedded Metadata.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Rain, Rivers & Waves Play Track 97 sounds included, 230 mins total $79

    Spanning five years of meticulous field recordings “Rain, Rivers & Waves” gets you nearly 8 GB of pristine water sounds in all shapes and sizes.

    The collection includes 97 files recorded in stereo at 96 kHz.

    The library delivers around 4 hours of tropical rains, urban storms, shallow streams, large roaring rivers, gentle lapping, heavy surf waves and much more!

    We hope this collection will be of great value to anybody looking for outstanding water sounds.

    As usual, all our sounds are meticulously recorded, edited with patience and mastered with love.

    Sincerely,

    Bonson Team

    Bonson

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  • City Life Sound Effects Berlin Balcony Play Track 6+ sounds included, 131 mins total $29

    Traffic and city atmospheres recorded from a balcony in Berlin at different times and weather conditions.

    More than 130 minutes of ambiences included!

    2025 Update
    • New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
    • Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
    • Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)
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  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Circuits Play Track 30 sounds included, 27 mins total $39

    A collection of textural recordings of electric and electronic sound sources.

    2025 Update
    • New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
    • Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
    • Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)
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  • Travel & Transportation Air Travel Play Track 62+ sounds included, 240 mins total $99

    Need the ambience of airports, security areas or on-board a commercial airliner during an international flight?

    This library delivers: Getting you 4 hours of crowds and atmospheres recorded at 10 different international airports  – and on-board multiple airliners with different seat perspectives in-flight, landing, taxi and crew announcements included.

    Update: 16 recordings of 6 new airports now included, as well as two new, long airliner on-board recordings – a total of 1h 23 minutes of additional audio!
    2025 Update
    • New UCS 8.2.1 compliant file names
    • Improved 20+ fields of UCS compliant BWAV/Soundminer/XML metadata
    • Metadata translations in 40 languages (TSV/XLSX files)
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  • Creature Sound Effects Monster Library Vol 4 Play Track 120 sounds included, 3 mins total $15

    Defeat these horrible creatures and become a legendary warrior

    In the Monster Library Vol 4 we will travel to the depths of the dungeons, and you will have to face dangerous monsters, such as the Behemoth with its scaly skin and thick as steel, the Insectoids with their buzzing wings, Skeletons that return to the world and want revenge, the hideous Aberration and finally the Spectre, with its ethereal form and piercing wail makes fear grip you.
    From Khron Studio we have created a total of 120 sounds, divided into simple categories and covering the most important actions of 5 types of monsters. You will be able to find a large number of variations for each sound that will make your monsters feel more alive than ever.

    Preview
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    Monster includes:
    – Behemoth
    – Insect
    – Skeleton
    – Aberration
    – Spectre

    All creatures have sounds from:
    – Attack
    – Roar
    – Steps
    – Hurt
    – Die
    – Some special abilities like flying.

    More about the pack
    – Intuitive file naming
    – All you’ll ever need regarding magical elemental sounds [Use them again & again
    – Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
    – Totally mono compatibility
    – All sounds have several variations.
    – Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
    – For any questions or problems: [email protected]

    Features
    – 120 unique monster sounds
    – Number of Audio Waves: 120
    – Format: 96 Hz / 24 bits
    – Do Sound FX loop: Some
    – Minutes of audio provided: 3 minutes and 26 second

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  • Whoosh Sound Effects Essentials 08 – Swoosh Play Track 100 sounds included $10

    Low-price. High-quality. Essential.

    A collection of 100 fast swooshing and whooshing sounds, perfect for scene transitions, swinging swords, throwing items, and more!

    The sounds are fully compatible with the Universal Category System (UCS) – a public domain initiative establishing a standardized category list for the classification of sound effects.

    Note: All of these sounds (and more!) are included in the 96 General Library (get 3,000+ SFX for FREE!)

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  • Environments & Ambiences Cricket Play Track 436 sounds included $25

    Introducing “Cricket – Junior & Senior”, the ultimate sound effects library tailor-made for cricket enthusiasts and creators alike!

    Whether you’re looking for the crisp crack of the bat connecting with the ball, the shuffle of players in the field, or the exhilarating ambience of a bustling cricket ground, we’ve got you covered with a broad range of sounds that differentiate cricket from other batting sports. Included are sounds of cricket gear, movements, batting, bowling, fielding and other miscellaneous sounds.

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  • Door Sound Effects Resonant Rusty Door Play Track 100+ sounds included $20

    Recorded at an old WWII-era bunker just outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, now derelict and covered in rust.

    These recordings were a happy accident, discovered on the way to record something else. This large, heavy steel door has been rusting since wartime, and when I noticed it I immediately knew it would have a unique sonic character. When moved, it produces interesting almost musical tones, rich with harmonics and ripe for processing.

    This library includes a variety of sounds generated by interacting with the door in different ways (scraping, punching, and moving at various speeds).

    Info:
    • Recorded in mid-side with a Schoeps Mini CMIT and CMC6MK8 into a Sound Devices 633.
    • All sounds are decoded to LR stereo, normalized and processed minimally beyond noise reduction.
    • Files are tagged with meta-data in Basehead and stamped in iXML, bext and ID3 formats.
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  • City Life Sound Effects We Are The People Play Track 57+ sounds included $25

    We are the People is a sound effects library filled with protests chants from the 2012 NATO protests in Chicago.

    Two locations give this library two aurally unique crowd environments. The downtown protests reflect off the surrounding buildings, giving them a neat urban quality, while the Ravenswood protests give the impression of a more open environment. Groups of protesters in unified chant ranged in size from just a few to perhaps 200 or more. Many of the recordings have wonderful builds, starting with one or two voices and grow from there, in both size and intensity.

    These recordings work great as stand alone effects or for layering in some specificity to crowds. The next time your designing a defiant crowd, bring some authenticity with We are the People.

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  • Instruments Wind Chimes Play Track 238 sounds included $29

    Hear the charming sounds of the 238 wind chimes. The richness of the harmonics helps to create a serene, meditative, dramatic or eerie atmosphere. Be it magic, a town fair, or just a family house porch, these will add that fresh perspective to build character and anticipation!

    Wind Chimes pack comes with 238 organic recordings of tinkle, clang, hit, rattle, knock, grab, release, put down, shake, scrape, impact, plink, silence, ring, release actions from different perspectives.

    These high-resolution sound files are in 96kHz – 24bit stereo format and includes various techniques, creative takes and loopable sounds.

    Action: Tinkle, clang, hit, shimmer, rattle, knock, grab, release, put down, shake, scrape, impact, plink, silence, release, ring
    Style: Light, regular, heavy, strong, windy, breezy, tonal, musical, single, short, medium, long, whoosh, flow
    Material: Wood, metal, copper, iron, shells, bamboo, with/out bells, thick, thin, long, short, big, small

    These meticulously recorded sounds have both practical usability and room for further sound design. Includes detailed and easy-to-navigate metadata and UCS compatibility. Recorded with Sennheiser MKH 8040 stereo pair and Zoom F3, and the usual Vadi Sound craft and attention to detail.

    Find the true sound of it with Vadi Sound Library.

    What else you may need

    You may also want to check out our Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions for 294 designed sounds of transitions and whooshes, including swipes, futuristic sci-fi sounds, tonal, pass by, power ups/ downs, movement, machine, and more.
    City Perspectives is another excellent choice with 56 loopable high-quality urban ambiences. From busy intersections to back streets, vibrant parks to rooftops, 3 hours of city ambiences will serve as ideal background tracks.

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  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Timelapse Play Track 448 sounds included $39

    Introducing the ultimate Timelapse Sound Effects sound library designed to meet the highest quality needs for sound designers, videographers, and filmmakers alike. With over 3Gb of sound data and 448 high-quality audio files, this library has everything you need to bring your scenes to life. Whether you’re working on timelapse, timewarp, hyperspace, slipspace, time travel, hyper fast cars, superheroes, and whatever else you may need in this sound category… this sound library has you covered.

    This library provides speedy transitions and hyperfast event clusters to equip sound designers and videographers with the sound sources needed to elevate any project. To help achieve your goals, this library features more than 30 different scenes, each carefully curated to cover a wide range of case scenarios. With bustling cityscapes, peaceful countryside ambiences, ocean depths, the roars of fires, from the static of data transmission to the crackle of radio interference, this library has it all packaged up in that zippy super fast Timelapse style.

    One Scene, Two Approaches: Longer files and Single Events for the same scene
    Each scene includes two unique “audio beds” crafted using a multitude of same-family soundgroups carefully manipulated and tweaked with utmost attention to detail. These audio beds provide a strong foundation for your audio work, and will undoubtedly serve as a solid backbone for your overall sound design. To complement the audio beds, each scene also includes a set of sound group-related passbys, adding even more flexibility and depth to your sound design intention.

    Whether you’re a seasoned sound designer or just starting out, this library is an essential resource in achieving high-quality audio for your projects. So don’t wait, take your audio to the next level with this comprehensive sound library!

    Timelapse Sound Effect

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  • Horror Sound Effects Horror Jumpscares Play Track 111 sounds included $49

    SCARE YOUR AUDIENCE TO DEATH
    The Horror Jumpscares library contains terrifying stinger and riser sound effects and gives you everything you need to create sudden and scary shocks. Designed from the source material of screams, strings, synths and metal, these sounds are a must-have for horror projects.

    A TOOL FOR HAIR-RAISING SOUND DESIGN
    Use the sounds to build up creepy atmospheres and bring the nervous tension to a climax with an unexpected jumpscare. Loud and painful noises are a fundamental part of horror films and games, perfectly underlining fast-cut and action-packed sequences.

    Included are 111 sound effects that guarantee goosebumps and are not for the faint of heart.

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  • Environments & Ambiences Open Countryside Play Track 60 sounds included, 230 mins total $53

    Open Countryside focuses on those airy and wide areas so common in grasslands, valleys, hills, meadows and glades in forests. The recordings took place between Spain and the UK, although they are meant to be as neutral as possible, so they can be used for different places.

    • You will hear several types of birds including but not limited to sparrows, wrens, wagtails, pheasants, dunnocks, crows, pigeons, woodpeckers.
    • Other animals featured are roosters, stag calls, dogs barking, owls hooting, cows mooing, sheep baas, as well as crickets, cicadas, flies, and bees.
    • This collection features general ambiences with the animals mentioned above present in the recordings. They all tend to sound wide and spacious, with some animal calls bouncing off the trees.
    • There are a few close up recordings such as sheep baas, dog barks, bird calls and cows moos but do not expect this library to be a collection of close up recordings.
    • Unless specified, all files are free of human noise.
    • Recorded over a period of three years, all four seasons – winter, summer, spring and autumn – are present.
    • Locations included in this library are:
      • South Downs National Park, United Kingdom
      • Picos de Europa National Park, Spain
      • Sierra Morena, Spain
      • Cuenca Alta del Manzanares Regional Park, Spain
    • Dawn, dusk and afternoon times have all been covered.
    • Gear used: Sound Devices MixPre 6-II, Zoom F8, Sennheiser 8040s in ORTF, Sennheiser 8040 & MKH 30 in M/S, Sony D100.
    • UCS compliant metadata. Fields included CatID, Category, Subcategory, FX Name, Filename, Description, BWDescription, Library, RecType, RecMedium, Microphone, Designer, Manufacturer, Keywords, VendorCategory.
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  • Destruction & Impact Sounds Dust, Dirt & Rocks Play Track 160 sounds included, 11 mins total $30

    Fully UCS compliant

    Crisp, clean various types of pebble, dust, dirt and grit debris along with smashing rock impacts.
    Great for adding some subtle detail to your ‘after the explosion’ sound.

    I recorded all these sounds with my brothers during a trip home to Ireland.
    Close to our home (out in the middle of nowhere), there is a little quarry with a lot of sand, dust, stones, rocks and some grass. There was also a broken plough there that gave some nice stone on metal impact sounds.

    Equipment:
    Line Audio OM1s
    Line Audio CM3s
    Røde NTG3

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  • Materials & Texture Sound Effects Vibration Play Track 96 sounds included $28

    Vibration is 40 minutes/676 MB of vibrating, rattling and resonating metal and plastic panels in 96 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz using contact microphones. All files are UCS-compliant.

    This is a collection of sounds that rattle, clatter, vibrate, buzz, hum and oscillate. Think huge cargo vehicles, passenger ferries or mechanical installations with loose metal panels, resonating generators and such. The vibrating was done with a 100 watt tactile transducer (like a bass speaker with no cone) hooked up to an amplifier, and getting it’s signal from a modular synth. Frequencies from LFO’s and VCO’s were mixed, to get interesting vibrations in both sub-audio and audio range.

    Holding the transducer by hand allowed me to move it around and find the sweet spots on the various objects (a steel filing cabinet, a steel suitcase and a spring reverb tank come to mind). Depending on the amplitude of the input signal, different sounds would emerge from the same waveforms. Now and again, the transducer would get too hot to handle, and on one or two occasions, the thermo-relay on the amp would kick in. Excitement in the studio!

    You get:
    • Steel and plastic objects vibrating
    • Lots of seamless loops
    • Searchable file names
    • BWF Metadata embedded, with more included in CSV and ODS (OpenOffice) formats
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  • Drones & Mood Sound Effects Aeolus: Dark Wind Textures Play Track 45+ sounds included, 154 mins total $40

    Aeolus is a collection of gritty and eerie sound design elements performed entirely by intense winds. These recordings were made on custom-made wind harps, handmade props, barbed wire fences, telephone poles, and other found objects. It is utterly unlike a normal wind library.

    This collection of layers and elements of howls, drones, moans, creaks, rattles, clatters, and clanks provides rich material for the creation of unsettling ambiences, eerie presences, spooky room tones, and textural sweeteners for realistic winds. Aeolus is filled with conveniently long takes of piano wire, power lines, barbed wire, and other found and prepared objects that rumble, chitter, chatter, resonate, and whistle, in both gusty and sustained winds. Its sounds are perfect for horror scenes, magical effects, straining force fields, steampunk ambiences, extreme weather, high desert dramatic tension, or rusty post-apocalyptic soundscapes.

    This UCS-compliant sound library is not a pure field recording collection; it contains lengthy recordings that are both minimally processed and extremely time- and pitch-altered. Some recordings lasted overnight, then reduced to mere minutes, remapping sound events into unfamiliar cadences or into/out of human hearing range. 

    Aeolus includes over two hours of raw recordings and twenty additional minutes of designed sounds from the original recordings, ready to use in a project or to serve as a launchpad for further inspiration.

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  • Foley Sound Effects Office Work Play Track 81 sounds included $18.70

    Sounds of the Office

    I have included individual sounds of each office audio effect on its own. So you can create your own tailored made office environment!

    with phone ringing

    Water cooler glugs

    Coffee machine

    Pen writing

    Paper handling

    Stapler usage

    Office chair squeaks

    Keyboard and mouse typing and clicking

    Printer Printing, switching on and malfunctioning

    Room tone of a room next to a road

    Room tone with a computer fan

    and people Walla

    I have also included some busy office stereo atmos, and a long calm empty office atmos so you can simply drag it into your project (If you don’t have the time to build up your own)

     

    All recorded and exported in 24/ 96kHz

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  • Percussion Instruments Shakers and Percussion Play Track 2000 sounds included $29

    Shakers, maracas and rainsticks are great material for sound design and further processing.

    For this library I recorded various ethnic shakers, maracas, rainsticks of different sizes and other unusual esoteric percussion instruments, like Kapel’ (circular shaker) or giant-size custom built rainstick.

    These percussion instruments were recorded from various angles, dynamics and with pristine sound quality, which can be further processed, granulated or pitch-mangled to push your sound design boundaries further.

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