American Sound Archives - Unissued recordings produced by the Edison Company between the years of 1914-1929. The repertoire includes vaudeville sketches, popular vocal songs of the era, opera/classical, jazz, dance bands of the 1920's, speeches by popular orators and political figures, and the voice of Edison.
Replay AV is a powerful way to capture live and archived streaming video and audio with just a couple clicks. It includes a built-in media guide for recording thousands of broadcast radio shows as well.
Replay Converter makes it easy to convert files to and from all the popular audio and video formats. Just pick a file, choose a preset conversion, and go.
Replay Media Catcher lets you capture streaming Flash video (FLV format) and MP3 audio from previously unrecordable streams.
Replay Media Splitter allows you to extract or remove portions of audio and video files. Once it's installed, you'll be slicing and dicing media files in minutes.
Replay Music is a specialized music recorder that extracts MP3 song files as you listen to digital music subscription services and online radio stations. The Automatic Tagging feature labels songs for you.
Replay Screencast is a way to capture whatever you see and hear on your screen, and turn it into a movie file, or "screencast." Great for making demos, or recording non-standard media types. You can even add your own voice.
Audio-Technica - Designs and manufactures a wide range of products, including high-performance microphones, headphones, noise-cancelling headphones, wireless microphone systems, mixers and electronic products for home and professional use worldwide.
AudioSparx - Over 320,000 sounds, sound effects, loops, hits, stings, historical sounds, popular media sounds and music tracks in 86 categories and over 2,008 sub-categories,
British Library Sound Archive - One of the largest sound archives in the world with over a million discs, 185,000 tapes, and many other sound and video recordings. The collections come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history and wildlife sounds.
Freedom Archives, The - 8000 hours of audio and video recordings documenting social justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally from the 1960s to the present. The Archives features speeches of movement leaders and community activists, protests and demonstrations, cultural currents of rebellion and resistance. This oral history is in a searchable database. You can download programs and clips.
Internet Archive: Audio and MP3 Library - This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
iTunes - iTunes is a store, a player, and a way to get music and more onto your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. Download here.
Jake Ludington's MediaBlab - Latest tips for maximizing productivity, simplifying digital video and audio frustrations, and solving computer problems.
LAST Factory - Record cleaner, record preservative, CD/DVD cleaner and treatment, media care and more.
LibriVox - Volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Mainspring Press - Award-winning research on historic recordings.
Media Resources Center (MRC) - The UC Berkeley Library's primary collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and visual) formats. These formats include: videocassettes, DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs), and laser discs; compact audio discs; audiocassettes; slides; and interactive multimedia materials.
MP3.com - From openers to headliners, download your next favorite track on MP3.com, featuring over 1 million tracks, artist profiles, photos, videos, and new music daily.
Naropa Poetics Audio Archives - The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde.
Nitty Gritty - Vinyl record cleaning systems. Records cleaned on a Nitty Gritty system reproduce all the music stored in their grooves without the interference and masking of record pollutants.
Online Media Collections, University of California, Berkeley - UCB has made available dozens of hours of sound file records at various lectures and events at UCB. you can listen to speeches and lectures by Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Carlos Fuentes, Aldous Huxley, Alfred L. Kroeber, Claude Lvi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer; and poetry readings from Robert Creeley, Robert Frost, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Gary Snyder, and Ted Joans.
Penn Sound - University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing's ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.
Documentation about individual recordings as possible; new bibliographic information will be added over time.
See extraordianary list of authors represented.
Radio Magazine - Covering the technology of radio broadcasting in North America.
Songbird Media Player - A desktop Web player, digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform, and open source.
Sound ONline Inventory and Catalog (SONIC) - This Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collection contains 2.5 million audio recordings. Published and unpublished recordings are on a variety of physical formats representing a history of sound recording from late nineteenth century cylinders and discs to the latest digital files. Includes radio broadcasts and spoken word; vocal and instrumental music.
Transom.org -
Channels new work and voices to public radio and public media. Provides tools, advice, and community.
UbuWeb - Dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. Also follow on Twitter.
Van den Hul - High quality product range covering moving coil (MC) and moving magnet (MM) phono cartridges as well as broad range of audio cable and wire products.
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Internet Archive: Audio and MP3 Library - This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.
