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Production codes differ from one production company to another. This decision only refers to those by Big Finish Productions.

Production codes are created to suit the needs of the production company. These needs are not always transparent to the customers and may be influenced, among other factors, by information about the copyright holder, the original production company in cases of distribution deals, desire to mimic production codes of another production company, etc. Removing parts that are deemed too regular would amount to second guessing the intent while simultaneously concealing information indicative of it.

In addition, Big Finish Productions has since released audios with non-BFP long production codes, e.g., FREUD004.

Like phone numbers, email and web addresses, ISBN numbers, credit card numbers, etc., production codes are intended to be used as is rather than decomposed into constituent parts, even in cases when such a decomposition might be possible.

Thus, production codes for Big Finish audios should be copied verbatim from the Big Finish website.