I don’t remember upload sound not free, i just remember it being free, but never has to pay it to upload my custom sounds
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For me it says Enabling Store is not available yet. Does this mean the audio asset is not eligble?
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This is not yet a feature that is support. This launch only enables creators to upload sound effects to Creator Store.
However, if your users do go through this process and upload sounds to Creator Store, you can add those assets to your inventory and provide access to those sounds in your game however you like.
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Confirmed that there has been no changes to the criteria for uploading private audio, no ID verification is required.
Yes, the sound should work out of the box.
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Yes exactly. It could be that:
- You have not received eligibility to be a distributor
- The duration of the audio is too long
- The audio did not pass on or more of: copyright detection, Roblox’s sound effect classifier and/or moderation
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ID being required and not being able to appeal moderation is atrocious. This might as well not even exist at this point t.
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It says in the OP that you can’t appeal
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That’s wierd since the Violations & Appeals page allows you to appeal an audio asset.
Example:
Maybe the OP meant something else.
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The application isn’t difficult at least, I submitted one for the Rights Manager and it got accepted in like two days. It is annoying, though.
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true, but its just another thing you have to do for a feature that used to be completely unlocked, its annoying having to do so much for so little.
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It is, yes. The Rights Manager made sense, even though it doesn’t work, but for this? An application for this feature seems pointless.
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Audio uploads have been free for years now, it used to be paid before that
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It does make sense as while agreeing to this you promise that the audio is yours and that you grant Roblox a non-exclusive royality free worldwide license to the audio that you distribute onto the Creator Store.
Without this Roblox doesn’t have any legal protection.
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I can’t wait to share some SFX that I made myself with my objects! They allow you to make sounds for buttons I hope to be accepted even though I received a strike for a t-shirt that I uploaded 2 years ago which contained an Amazon logo…
This is excellent! Now we can again share simple sounds (such as elevator chimes), but there is still work to be done:
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I see, I am able to distribute other assets to the store.
This specific asset that I want to distribute is a spoken voice-line. Do voices not pass the classifier?
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You’re allowed to distribute any sound that you’ve made or own, which is under 10 seconds.
Once upon a time you had to spend Robux to upload audio. Just before the fee was removed, the price varied based on the audio length. You could choose whether or not to publish the asset to what was known as the Library (to allow other users to add it to their inventory), but unfortunately, creators could not prevent “private” audio from being used in random games that they did not create, even if the sound ID was leaked (except by archiving), which is the one good reason that the system was changed since.
Two years ago, and several months after a copyright settlement, Roblox decided to remove the upload fee and replace it with upload limits and verification incentives, and make an announcement giving everyone 13 days to replace all audio that was not:
- shorter than 6 seconds
- owned by the game creator, or
- owned by Roblox
They added a fancy plugin to make it easy to find audio that was expected to stop working. A blue checkmark indicated no change was needed, a red X meant the sound needed to be replaced, and a green checkmark indicated sounds that were already removed from the game. The plugin is still accessible today, but the real purpose of it only lasted from 3/9/2022 until 3/22/2022. The announcement only mentioned the benefits of “asset privacy” and their promise to roll it out on all asset types and did not mention copyright at all. Roblox did not admit until recently that copyright compliance was important with re-enabling public audio.
Hidden in the announcement’s FAQ was a note that the ability to set audio to public would be “temporarily” turned off, in addition to the majority of public audio becoming private, which was so controversial, concerning, and frustrating, that it was the most replied to announcement on the DevForum (over 4k replies).
Then they introduced the permission granting system, which I believe still applies to all audio except those owned by Roblox (edit: by Roblox, of course I also mean endorsed partners) as well as audio that was NOT made private in 2022.
TLDR: You used to be able to upload publicly, then they suddenly turned it off two years ago and now they’ve brought it back partially.
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