Virtual Library

Computing

Broadcasters

Music

General repositories

Newsgroups

Online radio

Software

Books (also in the UK)

Other information and items

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General repositories

• MP3.com. CD quality audio.
• Lycos MP3 search engine.
• Wav Central - search for WAV format files.
• Internet Underground Music Archive. See IUMA Help!
• peoplesound.com - free music.
• Audiogalaxy - music search.
• MP3/Audio search from AltaVista.
• Sites with audio clips.
• Audio links from Yahoo! Directory. See also search for audio and sound links.
• Multimedia music and audio, recreation audio and music sound file links from the Google Directory.
• Free sounds from Wikimedia Commons.
• Etree.com community, lossless digital audio distribution.
• Napster - now a membership service from 29 October 2003 in the USA.
• The Free Music Archive.
• Classical.com - classical music.
• EARchives by Bill Auclair.
• Sound archive, originally at Oxford, UK.
• National Sound Archive, The British Library, UK.
• The Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University, USA.
• Digital Video including combined video/audio, Multimedia Communications Laboratory (MCL), Boston University, USA. (Beware: large files!)
• Spoken Language Systems Group, MIT, USA.
• Sun audio sounds archive.
• Historical speeches audio archive, including Nixon, etc., from Webcorp. See also exotic images and sounds.
• Sounds at Imperial College, London.
• Electronic Zoo/NetVet Animal Sounds links.
• MPEG-4 Structured Audio: Developer Tools on-line book.
• Open-songs.com, free royalty-free music.
• NPR (National Public Radio) audio archives, Washington DC, USA. More than 17,000 hours of news and entertainment programs available free online.

Newsgroups

• For binary sounds on computers:
  • alt.binaries.sounds.misc
  • alt.binaries.sounds.d
  • alt.binaries.sounds.midi
  • alt.binaries.sounds.mods
  • alt.binaries.sounds.movies
  • alt.binaries.sounds.music
  • alt.binaries.sounds.tv
  • alt.binaries.sounds.utilities
  • alt.binaries.sounds-armpit.noises

• For IBM PC sound cards:
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.games
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.GUS

• For audio equipment in general:
  • rec.audio.misc FAQ information)
  • rec.audio.car FAQ information)
  • rec.audio.high-end
  • rec.audio.pro
  • rec.audio.marketplace
  • rec.audio.opinion
  • rec.audio.tech
    see also rec.audio newsgroup hierarchy from Google Groups

• Other newsgroups:
  • news:bionet.audiology
  • news:comp.sys.amiga.audio
  • news:comp.sys.sgi.audio
  • news:misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.audio

Search for newsgroup articles on audio and sound in Google Groups.

Online radio

• Yahoo! Broadcast.
• BBC Radio.
• World Radio Network (international public radio).
• iRADIO interactive radio.
• Intervox Communications, Internet access for broadcasters.
• RadioTower Internet Radio Directory.
• Voice of America: News Now.
• Internet Talk Radio.
• Premiere Radio Networks.
• Sunlite Radio.
• WWOZ - New Orleans music, jazz, blues, etc.
• SHOUTcast - MP3 audio streaming.

See also other broadcasters.

Software

• Audacity, free open source cross-platform sound editor, for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc.
• AudioFile, a device-independent network-transparent audio server from DEC CRL. (See TNS Technology Demonstrations from Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, USA.)
• Cool Edit, shareware multi-format digital sound editor for MS Windows.
• GoldWave, shareware digital audio editor for MS Windows.
• JAWS for Windows audio conversion software (e.g., for surfing the web) from Freedom Scientific.
• MPEG Audio Layer-3 information. See also setting up an MPEG audio player.
• MP3 software.
• Network Audio System (NAS). See also source.
• RadioDestiny streaming audio software suite, for Windows. Free for hobbyists.
• Real player for real-time audio and video over the Internet. See also UK site.
• Rplay, a flexible network audio system. Uses Berkeley sockets. X Windows is not required.
• Shockwave Player (streaming audio) from Macromedia.
• Sonique media and MP3 player.
• SoX Sound eXchange (sound file format converter for Unix and DOS PCs, 1995).
• TiMidity++ MIDI to WAVE converter/player.
• UltraPlayer Windows MP3 player.
• WebAudio - WWW live audio streaming for Windows 95 and NT.
• WHAM (Waveform Hold and Modify), a Windows application for manipulating digitised sound. Read/write/transforms WAVE format files, raw eight-bit sound files and various other formats.
• Winamp Windows MP3 player.
• Xaudio multiple platform MP3 playback. See source.
• X windows distributed audio software from the X Consortium.

Other information and items

• Text to speech translator (click here for an example).
• Audio File Format FAQ
• Music Research archive.
• Computational Phonology.
• MIDI Home Page.
• Audio Engineering Society (AES), an international professional organization. See also journal.
• SimPhonics, Inc. produce real-time digital audio systems.
• Audio Publishers Association.
• Audiobooks.
• Audio Book Club.
• AudioBooks Online. Audio BookWorld.
• Audio Literature.
• Audible - over 18,000 audio titles.
• Internet Sound Institute (ISI) - learn about sound systems.
• Audio Institute of America - recording engineer home training.
• Computer Real Audio Programing. :-)
• VoiceAlizeR - vocal weblog.