Sncf/tgv Announcement Chine

It was mentioned on stream last night that SNCF has an iconic station announcement chime. Never knew about this, so did a search on YouTube and found these. It’s actually super cool. Pity we can’t have it in the game.

 

If you ever go to a large French station it’s basically playing non-stop.

It can be irritating but it reminds me of Holiday lol

 

Thought a 90s dance song was about to start playing. Really fun chime though.

 

and btw it has been mentioned before the chime

 

That explains why DTG can’t use the chime. SNCF don’t own it themselves.

 

But technically they could go for a licence to the author himself, right? You get permission to use the whole song and can put the chime in the game.

 

Technically there is nothing stopping them. I guess it’ll depend on cost and whether that cost is worth it.

 

The SNCF chime came before the song, apparently the song's writer had to ask authorization to the composer of the chime.

 

One way or another it should be possible to get the licence for a song that "sounds like the chime" and use the first two seconds of it. One of them has to have the say. If it's not SNCF, it's him.

 

It ended up in court because the composer of the chime agreed to the tune being used in Gilmour’s song but the actual recording of the chime was used, which is not what they had agreed. The composer lost the case because he left it too long to make the complaint about the infringement.

DTG should steer well clear of this kind of thing. It’s not just SNCF they would be dealing with but a composer wanting royalties. All to have an annoying chime in game. Not worth it.

 

See my post above. This is not how licensing and getting permission to use bits of audio works. A real composer wrote that jingle and both he and SNCF would need to agree to very specific terms of any agreement. Just the negotiations aren’t worth DTG’s time and effort.

 

I honestly hope they won’t implement the chime as it can be really annoying I hear hundreds of time at work and to be honest we won’t stay that much in the station and the small announcement is enough personally

 

Maybe ask someone if they can mod it in on pc? There are already generic station announcements for British stations so I believe playing a chime should be possible to mod as well.