File-Sharing (File Swapping, Peer-to-Peer, P2P):
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
SONY Corp v. Universal Studios
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer V Grokster, Ltd.
Film.com - Reviews, feature stories, interviews, international film
festival coverage, including much video and audio content. In
Screening Room visitors can watch the latest previews of new major studio
movies and home video offerings in RealAudio and RealVideo.
[F. Scott] Fitzgerald: Voice & Film Clips - From the University of South
Carolina's
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary (1996) site, there are audio files of
Fitzgerald reading John Keats'
Ode to a Nightingale, John Masefield's
On Beauty and William Shakespeare's
Othello speech to the Venetian senators. There is also a
mpeg film clip of Fitzgerald in the Twenties.
FindSounds - Search engine for finding sound effects on the Web.
Comparisonics Corporation technology "allows you to search for audio files
based on how they sound. You can even create your own sounds and use them to
find similar sounds on the Web." Examples of
Sound Types are provided. You can also download the
Comparisonics Audio Player.
FlashRadio - SonicNet's 'visual radio station' broadcasts a mix of
animation, text, and and music...
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 - Provides access to
376 sound recordings made in Florida in 1939-40 under the auspices of several
government-funded arts projects. It consists of a "multiformat ethnographic
field collection documenting African-American, Arabic, Bahamian,
British-American, Cuban, Greek, Italian, Minorcan, Seminole, and Slavic
cultures throughout Florida."
Fluent Tibetan: An Interactive Tibetan Language Tutorial - Alex Chapin.
Folk Den Archive - Roger McGuinn
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America - Lesley
Nelson's collection of MIDI tunes, lyrics, information, historical background,
and tune related links.
Folksong Index | Volkslieder Verzeichnis - Lyrics and midi files,
primarily for pre-1922 songs. Has an
Irish Folksongs section.
FolkWeb - Hear clips from various folk artists including
Einstein's Little Homonculus
Food Network Videos
Footage: Global Search - Search hundreds of major stock news footage
sources world wide. For example, a phrase search (match exactly) for Marc
Rich retrieved 29 records in 4 databases. (See also
Wordwave,
Virage,
MediaSite,
Convera,
Vodium and
Taalee.)
Foreign TV - International video news service
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - Yale University
collection of over 3,700 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of
the Holocaust. With audio and video
Excerpts from Testimonies.
Fox News
Français Interactif - Video-based first year French program developed at
the University of Texas.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - Audio resources
include
Winston Churchill's address to Congress, December 26, 1941 or
Fireside Chats ( with
Transcripts) from the Thomas J. Watson Collection of Franklin Roosevelt
Speeches.
Free Speech Internet Television - Audio/video archive of progressive
resources
Freedman Collection of Recorded Jewish Music - University of Pennsylvania
owns one of the largest collections anywhere of recorded Yiddish music.
Searchable database contains over 1700 recordings and provides sample
Audio clips.
Fresh Air - National Public Radio show hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY of
Philadelphia has RealAudio
Archives and is
searchable.
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - National Library of Brazil. The
Divisão de Música Arquivo Sonoro, also available in
English, has a
Virtual Archives with biographies and MIDI files for Brazilian composers.
For example there are audio files for
Alberto Nepomuceno,
Carlos Gomes and
Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Genome Webcasts - Links to online audio and video files about genetics
offered by the
Human Genome Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Gershwin Centennial - San Francisco Symphony, September 9th. With
music from the opening.
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the
Opera Index. Includes
midi and
RealAudio files. Created and maintained by Jim Farron & Alex Feldman.
Glass Pages: Audio Files - Sound samples of music by Philip Glass.
Glenn Gould Archive - National Library of Canada site has
Archival Audio Tapes.
GMD Music Archive: Sheet Music - Free sheet music for non-commercial
usage. Created and maintained by
Werner Icking. Includes sound files.
God and Computers - 1999 MIT God and Computers Lecture Series features six
lectures about interactions between faith and computer science by Donald
Knuth, Professor Emeritus of Stanford University, and author of the
Art of Computer Programming. (Available in RealAudio via
Dr. Dobb's Technetcast.)
GoGaGa - Freeform eclectic internet radio station located in Boulder,
Colorado. Music for Cubicles is broadcast weekday afternoons, anchored by Dave
Blanchard and assorted other DJs. (The only commercial you hear is when you
first log on.)
Goldband Recording Corporation - Photographs, sound recordings and
biographical essays in the Southern Folklife Collection, Manuscripts
Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Golf.com - Golf Digest and NBC Sports. Their
Golfers Network offers eight hours of audio coverage a day.
Governor General's Literary Awards - National Library of Canada. Readers
include children's authors.
Grassy Hill Radio - Streaming folk and accoustic music. See also
Grassy Hill Concerts, Lyme, Connecticut.
Great American Speeches - PBS collection contains an
Archives of speeches arranged sequentially by era.
Great Speeches - History Channel site provides a daily speech "drawn from
the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the Twentieth Century" and
includes an
archives
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - Herman Miller
Harappa: Sounds - Omar Khan's site is dedicated to the ancient city that
flourished around 2,500 B.C. in the Indus Valley civilization in the western
part of South Asia. Includes RealAudio clips of Gahdhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Ghani
Khan and Princess Abida Sultaan.
Harmonia Mundi - Independent classical label. Many of the
artists provide audio clips.
Harmonica - An acronym for Harmonised Access and Retrieval for Music
Oriented Networked Information Concerted Action, the project seeks to develop
a "solid strategic framework for networked access to music and related
multimedia services, including technologies, existing and emerging standards,
exploration of network options and improved interfaces." The report,
Remote Access and Transfer of Audio Recordings, provides "overview and
references to information on transfer of analogue audio recordings into
digital formats (digitisation), local and remote storage of data as well as
access and retrieval in a library or archive environment" and has links to
Audio Players. (A project of the Dutch
Studie- en Vakbibliotheek.
Harmony Central - "Internet resource for musicians"
Harmony of Heavenly Revelations - RealAudio recording ofa composition of
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), sung by Ellen Oak. (Bison
Music, Belfast, Maine.)
Harper Audio - Offers
Listening Room with excerpts from audio books
Harry A. Blackmun Papers at the Library of Congress - Includes hours of
videotaped interviews conducted by Harold Hongju Koh, one of Blackmun’s
former clerks, from July 6, 1994-December 13, 1995. There are 37 video tapes,
all available online, including two sessions "On Roe v. Wade".
Harry Bradford Stanton Lecture - September 28 and 29, 2000, MIT. Two
lectures, "Does Our Language Affect the Way We Think?" and "Stages of Learning
in an Unchanging Machine: Human Simulations of Vocabulary Growth" by Lila
Gleitman, Co-Director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at
the University of Pennsylvania, Fyssen Foundation Laureate, and one of the
most influential cognitive scientists of our time.
Harry Shearer: From the Edge of America - Satirist, actor and director.
His
Found Objects is a collection of embarrassing off-air remarks by news
anchors and reporters.
Harvard Business Schools Videotools - Provides a
sample of their Videotools search capability from their video archivies A
search for Internet retrieves 67 results. (See
Virage Partners with Harvard Business School to "Electrify" the Classroom.)
Harvard University Institute of Politics Forum Archives -
Outstanding collection of archived forums. In the October 16, 2001 forum, for
example, Karen Armstrong, Ali Asani, William Graham and Roy Mottahedeh
discussed The Role of Islam in Muslim Politics. Other forums were on
such topics as the Death Penalty (November 7, 2001), Hip Hop Culture (October
10, 2001) and Civil Rights Movement (November 26, 2001).
Harvard Law School Forum - With RealAudio sound files of
Past Programs dating back to 1954 featuring an impressive array of
speakers ranging from Walter Reuther to Barry Goldwater.
Recent Speakers have included Charlton Heston, Asa Hutchinson,Vince
McMahon, Mario Cuomo, Ralph Nader, Jack Gargan, Helen Thomas, Stephen
Reinhardt, Nadine Strossen, Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer, Bill
Kovach, Richard Lewontin, Michael Seidman and Arun Gandhi.
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
Health Library Online Video Collection - Titles from the Stanford
University Hospital collection are about 30-60 minutes long and address common
health topics.
Hearing Voices - NPR project directed by Barrett Golding.
Heavenly Jukebox - Charles C. Mann writes about Napster and other
copyright and piracy issues in the September, 2000 issue of
Atlantic Monthly.
Helix - Glaxo Wellcome site has "lectures from some of the world’s most
preeminent medical experts on cutting-edge topics such as genetic cloning,
HIV/AIDS treatment, advances in cancer therapy and preventing medication
errors."
Hi-Fido! (High Fidelity Digitization On-line) - University of Chicago
multi-media project offers sheet music and recordings that date from jazz's
beginnings in the early 1910s through Chicago Jazz's heyday in the 1920s up to
the Great Depression. Searchable and browsable.
Highlander Music - Over an hours worth of online Scottish music is
provided by
Highlander Web Magazine.
Historical Voices
-
In their galleries:
Flint Sit-Down Strike,
History and Politics Out Loud - Searchable archive of politically
significant audio materials. (Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University.)
History Matters - "Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S.
History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and
offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded
discussions on teaching U.S. history."
Many Pasts "contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the
experiences of "ordinary" Americans throughout U.S. history."
History Place: Great Speeches Collection - Transcripts, many with
RealAudio accompaniments.
Hoagy Carmichael Collection - A project of the
Indiana University Digital Library Program to catalog, digitize, and
preserve every item in Indiana University’s extensive collection of materials
pertaining to the life and career of the master songwriter Hoagy Carmichael
(1899-1981). Includes a selection of
sound files.
Hollywood Online - MovieTalk - RealAudio celebrity interviews. Hear
Whit Stillman (Last Days of Disco)
Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted by the Memories of Red Dirt and Clay -
PBS chronicle of Black farmers from the Civil War to the present.
Wisdom and Experience features RealVideo reflections on land and loss from
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson,
the filmmaker, family members, an activist, a former slave, a scholar and a
black farmer.
Stories and Remembrances features RealVideo interviews with individuals
about family, struggle, land and loss.
HotBot - Search engine has an option which allows you to search for audio
as a media type. Also has a
Music Search.
HotSeat - John McChesney interviews for HotWired's Snynapse
HotWired POP Archive - Interviews, readings, music. Highlights include
interviews with
with Brian Eno, Spike Lee and Laurie Anderson
HymnSite - Searchable site features MIDI hymn and psalm tunes from the
1989 edition of the United Methodist Hymnal and the Standard Psalm
Tune Book compiled by Henry E. Dibdin in 1851.
Icebox.com - Among its animated series is Eric Kaplan's
Zombie College
in which student turns down MIT to be with his girlfriend at Arkford College
where students eat one another's brains.
i-drive - Free MP3 storage.
IFILM -
Searchable.
Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
iMesh - File sharing software for pictures, music, sounds and videos.
Index to Multimedia Information Sources - Sponsored by GMD: German
National Research Center for Information Technology and edited by Simon Gibbs
and Gabor Szentivanyi.
IndieAudio - Alternative rock channel and gen-X portal
Inside Politics (CNN) - Formerly AllPolitics, offers live and on-demand Video and even has some clips from the 1996 Presidential Debate.
Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM) - Associated with the Centre Georges-Pompidou and the French Ministry of Culture, IRCAM was established in 1970 as an institute for musical research. Sound resources include Studio en Ligne where you can hear the sounds of various instruments (including the violin with Chaconne en ré mineur de J. S. Bach).
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives - With links to Members and Useful Links.
International Computer Music Association - Dartmouth. Provides links to software and to computer music resources.
International Library of African Music (ILAM) - The Sound Archive has 20-25 second clips.
International Machaut Society - Scholarly organization devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and performance traditions. Machaut on the Web provides links to sites relevant to the teaching, study, and performance of poetic and musical works by Guillaume de Machaut, including sound clips.
Internet Archive - "Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public..." There is an Audio Archive with a Live Music Archive, Net Labels, Open Source Audio, a Television Archive for September 11th, Other Minds Archive (San Francisco radio station) and a Movie Collection.
Internet Poetry Archive - Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur read from their work (RealAudio).
Internet On the Air - Weekly radio program, hosted by the University of Michigan School of Information, offers news related to the Internet and digital technology. Includes an audio archive of past shows. Some of their past interviewees have included Eric Raymond, a prominent hacker, on open source software, John Seely Brown, a researcher at Xerox PARC, who has investigated how organizations can share knowledge and Don Norman, CEO of UNext, distance education company that aims to educate workers.
Internet Renaissance Band - Early music midi files by Curtis Clark Includes some lyrics.
Internet Television Network - On-demand business video news and information source provides the Nightly Business Report and the World Business Report from Merrill Lynch in RealVideo format and includes a Video Library, arranged by topics.
Internet Underground Music Archive - Searchable archive of sound clips for over 3853 independent musicians.
Inventing Entertainment: the Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - 81 Edison disc recordings and 341 motion pictures are currently available online and with plans are underway for the addition of cylinder recordings. (American Memory Project, Library of Congress.)
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project - Artists are listed by name, medium and location.
J. Paul Getty Museum Media Gallery
J.S. Bach Homepage: Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files
Jane Austen in the 21st Century Audio Archive - University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among the archived lectures is Margaret Drabble's talk on Jane Austen and My Father.
Jazzbasen - Database of Norwegian jazz includes soundclips. A project of the National Library of Norway and the Norwegian Jazz Archives.
John Holmes Collection - Biography, poetry and audio files. John Holmes (1904-62) was a poet and professor of English at Tufts University.
Journal for Multimedia History - Founded by Gerald Zahavi and Julian Zelizer, Department of History, University at Albany, State University of New York. Includes sound files and transcripts.
JournalismNet - Created by Julian Sher, who trains journalists in Web searching. There are sections on how to find TV news, radio news, video search tools and audio archives.
Just Say the Word, and Technology Finds It - Lernout & Hauspie technology to search audio or video recordings for a particular spoken phrase. David Pogue, New York Times, November 16, 2000.
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - Central Vermont" radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas." Has RealAudio cybercasts and archives.
Karolinska Institutet: Medical Images and Illustrations - Categorized list of links to medical images and multimedia on the Internet.
KCRW - 89.9 FM - Santa Monica - Live performances and interviews.
Keith Secola and Wild Band of Indians - Native musician. RealAudio tracks include NDN Cars (Indian Cars) and Innocent Man.
Kelly Writers House - University of Pennsylvania offers Webcast Archives with readings by Slavoj Zizek (9/18/00), Kenneth Goldsmith (9/21/00), Rich Moody (9/28/00), John Updike, 4/13/00, Robert Creeley (4/10/00), Thalia Field (3/22/00) and Grace Paley (2/15/00).
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Washington D.C. With Multimedia Archive for Millennium Stage, Storytime Online, War of the Worlds, Taro Iketani's The Samurai and others.
Kerbango Tuning Service - Directory for access to Internet audio from around the world
King FM 98.1 - Seattle radio station - Classic KING-FM - "was the first radio station in the world to broadcast classical music live on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
Leader in Lieder - German site has lyrics for 20,000 folksongs, and hymns, some with MIDI files.
Learn Spanish - Spanish Learning Resources. Lessons 6,7,8 have RealAudio tutorials.
Leonard Lopate Show WNYC - See Leonard Lopate, Conversational Acrobat, by Warren St. John, New York Times, March 20, 2005.
Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter - Curated by Marjorie Hassen, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, University of Pennsylvania. With RealAudio Musical Selections and Interview Segments.
Liquid Audio - Offers free player for downloading recordings. Format has been embraced by mainstream music because it prevents illegal copying. Online store has an inventory of over 50,000 titles.
Listen.com - Music download directory
Listening Post - Listen to selections of CD titles online with streaming audio. (Classical Music Online)
Live from Lincoln Center - Live director's feed (in RealAudio) includes goings-on backstage, from stage manager calls to technical notes.
Live Concerts - Includes interviews and music from more than 300 artists from KCRW (89.9 FM) in Santa Monica.
Live from the Forum - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Site includes Audio Archives.
Live Radio - Brian Buckley
Live365.com - Do-it-yourself Internet radio station company based in Foster City, California, provides access to hundreds of non-corporate commercial-free radio stations also offers free tools and free bandwidth to broadcast your own online radio station.
Living on Earth - National Public Radio environmental news show hosted by Steve Curwood has this week's show in RealAudio.
LoopXchange - The (CT) Found Sound, the (CT) Akapella, the (CT) Bluezette and the CT-75: miniatures, volume 1 pages have MP3 versions of original music CDs.
Lost and Found Sounds - NPR series on sound artifacts from this century (lost languages, vanished dialects, extinct speech). With RealAudio Archive. Past shows include The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski, Extinct Tongues: South African Language,New Yawk Talk, Truman and Gettysburg Eyewitness.
Loudeye - Formerly encoding.com, this company converts movies, music and television signals into digital form for Internet distribution.
Lutheran Hymnal - MP3, lyrics & sheet music.
Lycos Multimedia - Locate audio and video resources.
Lyra - Personal digital music player capable of storing 345 MB of music was developed by Thompson Consumer Electronics for RCA. Will support MP3 and RealNetworks' RealG2 format.
Lyric 96-99 FM - Classical music and arts channel produced by the Irish national broadcasting organisation Radio Telefís Éireann Online (RTE).
MTV2-Music Television - European music channel
McLaughlin Group Video Archive - Archive of weekly shows goes back to May 22, 1998.
Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Macromedia - Download Shockwave here.
Major League Baseball -Listen to live games.
Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and Legacy of Struggle - Audio archive of the November 1990 conference held at Manhattan Community College, New York.
Marian Anderson: A Life in Song - Curated by Nancy M. Shawcross, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. With Video and Audio Excerpts from Interviews and Performances.
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - Lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) of Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. Joint project of the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Music and the Springfield-Greene County Library in Springfield, Missouri, where the permanent collection is housed. The collection is keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number. Some examples: keyword searchable or you can browse by song title, singer and catalogue number. Listen to Black Jack Davey, My Horses Ain't Hungry, Amazing Grace, In the Pines, Wildwood Flower, Texas Rangers, Two Brothers, Rising Sun, Red River Valley, Pretty Polly, Miller's Daughter, Hannah Lee, I Wish I Was Single, House Carpenter and Casey Jones.
Medialink - Provides streaming video and audio reports for corporations, public relations agencies and other organizations.
MediaOnDemand.com - Examples of our on-demand and multimedia-enriched Webcasts are provided in the Gallery. Samples include the 1998 Emmy Awards, with performances by the dance company Pilobolus, and the 1999 New York Women in Film and Television Holiday Luncheon.
Mercury Theatre on the Air - Radio drama of the 1930’s "featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast...All of the surviving Mercury Theatre shows are available from this page, in both streaming and downloadable RealAudio format."
Merrill Lynch Online: Focus on IRAs - Educational series on IRAs features Jim McCarthy and Jack McDonald talking about all aspects of IRAs.
Michigan State University Online Lectures
MIDI Manufacturers Association - "Original source for information on MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) technology."
Midi Ring - Links to over 300 MIDI sites.
Millennium Evenings - White House lecture series held in the East Room of the White House. The guest lecturer on March 6, 1998 was Stephen Hawking. On April 22nd poets Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove were featured.
Motley Fool Evening Report - Hear This Week's Show or Archived Shows.
MP3.com - Company, founded by Michael Robertson, offers free music downloads from from 7,000 artists, audio software, hardware, genres, and news. With My.MP3.com you can store your music online and listen to it from any computer. Note: On January 18th a Federal district judge in Seattle barred the company from further distribution. See 3 Copyright Lawsuits Test Limits of New Digital Media in the January 24, 2000 New York Times. (Free registration.)
MP3 Search - Lycos claims to have "the world's largest MP3 site."
MSN Radio - See also their Music, Movies and TV
MTV2 - Europe. Create your own playlist.
Mudcat Cafe Radio - Live folk music in RealAudio.
Multimedia, Film and Broadcasting Resources on the Internet - Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center, Northwestern University Library.
Multimedia for the Web - Web Developer's Virtual Library
Music History 101 - Internet Public Library exhibition provides RealAudio sound files
Music of Ireland - Midi files, arranged in alphabetical order (Ireland-Now).
MusicBank - Company permits consumers to 'deposit' their CD music collections at an online 'musicbank' where they may listen to them anytime they connect to the Internet. You can listen to an interview with Michael Downing, MusicBank's CEO, via RadioWallStreet.
MusicNet - Search for audio and video in this RealGuide
Nanking Atrocities - Masato Kajimoto's Master's Project for the the Graduate School of Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 2000 has video footage.
Napigator - "Navigator To Nap Servers And Internet Audio."
Napster - Allows Internet users to exchange personal MP3 music files. (Note: In February 2000, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against Napster, based in San Mateo, California, seeking damages and an injunction that would effectively shut down the service. For more see Powerful Music Software Has Industry Worried in the March 7, 2000 New York Times.) Other peer-to-peer networks include OpenNap , File Rogue, iMesh, Song Spy and BearShare. (See Still Plenty of Music Out There by Leander Kahney, in the 3 February 2001 Wired News.)
NASA Audio Gallery - National Air & Space Administration site is an attempt to bring all of NASA's audio resources to one location.
Nation - With access to selected articles in the archives. Also provides the most recent show of the 'broadcast edition' of RadioNation in RealAudio.
National Anthems - MP3 collection of anthems for all continents
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - Their NARA Archival Information Locator(NAIL) gives you the option of searching for sound recordings. They have a section on locating Motion Picture Films and Sound and Video Recordings.
National Association of Broadcasters - Using the search option at this site reveals a number of pages dealing with streaming audio and convergence.
National Basketball Association - Offers audio and video resources.
National Center for Policy Analysis Channel - Offers an audio and video library.
National Gallery of Art - Washington, D.C. Their This Week at the National Gallery has past programs in RealAudio and MP3 format.
National Gallery of the Spoken Word - Ongoing 5 year project to create "a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century..." Partners include Oyez, Oyez, Oyez; History and Politics Out Loud, and the Chicago Historical Society. Although no actual sound resources are available at the site, the Educator's Forum is an online bibliography of readings associated with delivering multi-media projects and web based content in education and there is a collection of links to other funded projects.
National Institutes of Health Radio News Service
National Library of Canada - Has a list of Digital Projects with audio.
National Press Club - Offers live webcasts. An Archive is provided by NPR Online.
National Public Radio Online - Provides a list of programs, many with online audio resources, a Directory of NPR Stations and links to Talk Shows. Provides RealAudio archives for All Things Considered, Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Science Friday, Talk of the Nation, Public Interest, Weekend Edition Sunday, Wait Wait...don't tell me and Science Friday Kids Talk. NPR Top News Stories have audio files. The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century offers "on-air segments will cover a wide variety of genres, including classical, jazz, rock'n'roll, country, R&B, musical theatre and film scores."
National Sound Archive - British Museum site has RealAudio clips for Classical and International music.
Natural History Museum - London. Has a archive of over 100 online videos.
Nature Sounds of Australia - With a Catalogue of sounds.
Negativland - Experimental-music and art collective. Offers some interesting Audio Files.
NetRadio Network - 120 music channels.
Netscape Plug-ins: Audio/Video
NextUp Technologies - Their TextAloud software turns text documents into spoken words with a conversion tool that supports both the WAV and MP3 audio formats.
New Venue - Jason Wishnow shows a different short films on a regular basis and provides FlickTips, a guide for making movies on the web.
New York Times on the Web - Current Film - Now includes clips from selected films (requires RealPlayer and registration - free - with the New York Times.)
New York Times Book Review: Audio Interviews and Readings - Readings and interviews with famous authors, in RealAudio®, including a 58 minute interview with John Updike, Mary McCarthy reading from The Group at the 92nd St. Y on November 18, 1963, a two part interview with Jon Krakauer author of Into Thin Air and Listening to Poetry with 11 poets reading from their work at New York's Town Hall on September 18, 1996. (Free registration in the U.S.)
Next WAVe(sm): Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases - Gerry McKiernan's "clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services that describe or apply auditory interfaces, displays or interactive technologies to enhance use and access to Web and selected non-Web databases."
Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida - Has streaming Live Broadcasts of high profile trials.
Noam Chomsky Archive - Audio lectures and interviews.
Nomad - Digital audio player
Nova Programs Online - PBS
Nullsoft - Makers of the SHOUTcast streaming audio system developed by Justin Frankel (which allows anyone with a computer and modem to become an MP3 radio dj) and the Winamp player.
Odyssey - WBEZ Chicago talk program hosted by Gretchen Helfrich has a RealAudio Archive of past shows.
Ohwejagehka: Ha`degaenage - "Nonprofit organization based on Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario Canada that was established to help preserve and nurture the Iroquoian languages and songs." With descriptions and RealAudio samples of Iroquois Earth Songs.
OffLine - National arts organization, cable television screening, and distributor of independently produced films and videos. Video Room has streaming clips and interviews.
Ondemand Audio - International public radio programmes in RealAudio and WindowsMedia, organized by country.
Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
Online NewsHour - PBS show with Jim Lehrer. With Site Index. Has RealAudio archive.
Online TV-Radio Broadcast Directory - Links to broadband broadcast (streaming media) worldwide
ON24, Inc. - 24 hour Internet broadcasting network for online investors.
Online Guitar Chord Dictionary - "Guitar chord dictionary containing 4,613 chords and searchable by chord root, chord type, bass note, and position. In addition, a 'visual search' option is available for searching by fingering pattern. A chord diagram showing the notes that make up each chord and a MIDI file of the chord are also included." (Digital Media Services, University of Virginia.)
Origins of American Animation - Twenty-one films and two fragments from the Library of Congress include examples of clay, puppet, and cut-out animation and span the years 1900 to 1921. (Available as MPEG, Quicktime, and videostreaming versions.)
Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Sensation - Exhibition at the National Library of Canada offers an Audio Tour which features 24 selections and more than 100 albums recorded by Oscar Peterson. (including the 2.44 minute Oscar's Boogie), as well as biographical information and a photo gallery.
Österreichische Mediathek - Has an audio archive of music, literature (in German).
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Developed by Jerry Goldman, a political science professor at Northwestern University, the site provides digital recordings of major constitutional cases, searchable by date, party or subject and speeches made by justices. You can locate cases by Subject.
Pacifica Radio - With archives
Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party - Chronology of the Black Panther Party is accompanied by transcripts as well as video and sound clips from KPFA Radio's and the Pacifica Radio Archives. You can hear Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver and many others activists.
PBS - Many of their shows and special features have sound or video files, far to many to include here. (Use the A-Z program finder or the Search Page and Site Map.) Examples of multimedia include Washington Week In Review with transcripts and RealAudio from the last four weeks; River of Song has audio interview and soundclips of Artists; Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted by the Memories of Red Dirt and Clay with RealVideo files in Wisdom and Experience which features readings and reflections on land and loss from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, the filmmaker Charlene Gilbert, family members, an activist, a former slave, a scholar and a black farmer; Online NewsHour has a Video Search; and audio excerpts from Thomas Hampson's January 1996 concert in I Hear America Singing and Surviving the Dust Bowl has RealAudio Interviews interviews with program participants and the producer. PBS Mathline has searchable video database which will locate video clips and lesson plans on different mathematical topics and teaching techniques for grades K-12.
PBS Teacher Source - With RealAudio Archive of David Thronburg articles on Teaching with Technology.
Peter Nero Sound Library - 30-60 second "sound clips from the large repetoire of Peter Nero. Please note that these files have been recorded at 44khz, low pass filtered, re-sampled at 5.6 khz, and saved in 8 bit .au format for easy listening."
Le Piano Graphique - Play jazz on your computer keyboard. (Available in English or French.)
Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos - With MP3 and WAV sound files.
Poems That Go - Edited by Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson.
Poésie française - Includes 48 RealAudio poems by Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard, Hugo and others.
Poetry:
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - Kathie Fraser
Prairie Home Companion - Provides live netcasts and archived performances.
Princeton University WebMedia: Lectures - Recent speakers have included Frank O. Gehry, Lynne Cheney, Arun Gandhi, Paul Ehrlich, Bill T. Jones, Maurice Sendak, Russell Baker and Ralph Nader.
Project Whistlestop - Has an audio collection with 3 of Harry Truman's speeches.
Pseudo 5.0 - Multiple live channels of streaming audio and video.
Pulse of the Planet - National Geographic
QRadio - Quincy Jones showcase a range of talent from South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Offers tastings and explanations of world music, from jazz and hip-hop, african choral music, reggae and ska.
Radio Beethoven - Classical station broadcasting from Santiago, Chile
Radio Canada - Offers News in video format.
Radio Canada International - Multilingual
Radio Days: A Soundbite History
Radio Expedition Archives - Co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society
Radio France - With Le Reportage Multimedia and Le Coin de Poètes (Poet's Corner).
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
24-Hour LIVE Broadcast Studio.
Radio-Locator - (Formerly known as the MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet.) Locate radio stations by state. Provides link to station's web site and indicates if it broadcasts its audio on the Internet.
Radio Scout - Search for public radio broadcast information to find what's been on the air and what's coming up.
Radio Smithsonian Productions - Programs include Jazz Singers, Memphis: Cradle of Rock 'n' Soul, River of Song, Remembering Slavery, Black Radio and Jazz Smithsonian.
Radio Telefís Éireann Online (RTE) - Irish national broadcasting organisation provides streaming audio news and music, some in Gaelic. Provides an Audio Downloads Page.
RadioDigest - Radio news from over 40 cities. The Directory box has a Wireless Weblink section which provides links to stations with web pages.
Radio-Locator - "links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world."
RadioSpace - News, features, interviews, PSAs. (North American Network)
radiotakover - Indie-music network.
Radio Vaticana - "La voca del Papa." Official radio station of the Vatican. On demand news of the Vatican in many languages.
RadioWallStreet - Broadcasts senior executive interviews, analysts roundtable discussions, seminars and other events of interest to the investment community.
RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter - Published by Kurt Hanson, the site offers daily news and commentary on the key issues involving radio and the Internet.
Real Networks - Offers free RealPlayer download and the RealGuide, a directory of streaming media programming.
Recording Institute Of Detroit Audio Recording Terms Glossary - Glossary and audio dictionary. Comparable resources include Rane Professional Audio Reference and Yuri Rasovsky's An Audio Dramatist's Lexicon.
Red Hot Jazz Archive - With music from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band , Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven and Jelly Roll Morton.
Red Herring Video Center - Searchable video of panels, workshops, and debates from Red Herring events.
Reprise Records - With an Audio/Visuals page offering a selection of full-length songs in RealAudio (including Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now). There's also a selection of AV Streams in RealAudio, RealVideo and Qucktime.
Rivendell International Communications - Provides links to RealAudio Language Stations.
Robert Graves Electronic Archives - Developed by Philip Hunter, this site offers more than forty minutes of Robert Graves Reading his poetry and prose, in three audio formats.
Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art - "Work of 230 film makers from 25 different countries and consists of more than 640 films and videos on art available worldwide." Their Writers Talk: Ideas of our Time provides 106 streaming video clips of authors discussing their work.
RootsWorld - 'Electronic sharezine' of world roots and folk has Artist Interviews, reviews and audio files, some available to subscribers only.
Rosewood Reborn - One hour RealAudio radio documentary, narrated by James Earl Jones and produced by RealityWorks, recounts the Rosewood massacre of 1923, and the $2-million dollar survivor settlement of 1994.
RTHK on the Internet - Chinese University of Hong Kong. Has a Video Webcasting Channel.
RTL News - France. More French multimedia news resources can be found at Page France, TF1 France, Guide Video, FranceLink, Le Journaux en Video and France3 en ligne.
Rued Langgaard: A Danish composer presented in text, pictures, music and speech - With music samples.
Salon - Some of the Brilliant Careers profiles have audio and video highlights.
Sam's Digital Television Report: Streaming Media
Sanskrit Texts and Stotras - Dale Steinhauser. Hear Vedic Pundits recite various Sanskrit and Vedic texts in Audio Recordings of Sanskirt Texts.
Savvy Traveler Radio Show - With RealAudio archives of feature stories back to 1997. You'll find interviews with W. Hodding Carter, Paul Theroux and Dave Brubeck.
Schomburg Center-Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project Clips - With comments by Nat Adderley, Doc Cheatham, Jon Faddis and 18 others. (Requires Quicktime plug-in.)
Science Friday RealAudio Archives - National Public Radio
Scientific American Frontier - PBS series hosted by Alan Alda includs webcast of From Mir to Mars.
Scour - Internet Media Guide allows you to search for images, sound and video. This Beverly Hills-based new-media company backed by Hollywood super-agent Michael Ovitz was in the news in July 2000 for searching personal computer files.
Scott Joplin - 100 songs, all within 4 zipped files.
ScreenSound Australia: National Screen and Sound Archive
Search: SingingFish
Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) - Recording industry and technology companies specification for digital music security.
Seeing Ear Theatre - Sci-Fi Channel offers featured readings. Hear H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror, Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon and Michael Straczynski's City of Dreams.
Semetic Studies - Heidelberg University Department for Languages and Cultures of the Near East. The Semetic Languages Archive and Sound Documents contain audio files.
Shadow TV - Subscription service.
Shakuhachi - Site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. With audio links.
Shareware Music Machine - Hitsquad's "world's biggest music software site"
Silvis Woodshed - Choral music MIDI files sequenced by George Silvis
SingingFish - Audio-video search
Smithsonian Folkways - Audio offerings include Wood That Sings: Indian Fiddle Music of the Americas, an anthology of Native American fiddle music with performances by Indian musicians and Creation's Journey: Native American Music. There's also a Recent Releases page.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - MSN
Snap: Multimedia - There's also a Watch Video Online page.
SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Hear John Lewis, Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer & John Winters in RealAudio.
Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) - Provides a RealAudio Jukebox and a Quartet Lookup.
Song Catcher, Frances Densmore of Red Wing - Minnesota Public Radio site about Frances Densmore who spent her life trying to gather up scraps and artifacts of the old Indian ways for the Smithsonian Institution. The site consists of audio files, QuickTime Movies and photographs. Provides a Table of Contents.
SONIC (Sound Online Inventory and Catalog) - Search for radio broadcasts, commercial 78s & 45s, music and spoken wordin the Collections of the Recorded Sound Section of the Library of Congress. See also their Recorded Sound Reference Center.
Sonicnet - Music news, events, and live radio.
Sound Portraits - Documentaries produced by MacArthur Fellow David Isay. With Archives.
Sound Thinking - John McChesney's 26 minute interview on 25 October 1996 with Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of Progressive Networks, maker of RealAudio, on HotWired's HotSeat (which provides an archive of shows from 9 August 1996 to 27 June 1997 and another archive to 19 November 1997).
Sounds of harpsichords and related instruments - WAV sound samples are each approximately fifteen seconds long, files of about 300K, dubbed from compact discs by Bradley P. Lehman.
Southern Folklife Collection - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collection has Online Sound Recordings.
Southern Mosaic: the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip - Library of Congress American Memory Project has over 700 sound recordings (in WAV or RealAudio format) as well as photographic prints, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States collecting folksongs.
Spanish Early Music: Renaissance & Baroque MIDI Files - Sequenced by F. Villanueva. Site maintained with the collaboration of Charles K. Moss.
SpeechBot - Search engine developed by Compaq Corporate Research currently currently indexes 8427 hours of audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites (Motley Fool, National Public Radio's Fresh Air and Talk of the Nation, Dreamland with Art Bell and others).
Speeches: American Rhetoric,
Spinner.com - Based in Burlingame, California, this jukebox-style station offers a downloadable client tuner that receives streaming audio with more than 130 channels of customized music with more than 130,000 songs.
Stanford Archives of Recorded Sound - Provides Sound Bytes from the Archive as well as an excellent collection of links to Related Internet Pages.
Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only). There are lists for MP3 and Texte und Noten
Story of Africa - BBC site includes 24 audio segments, each 30 minutes, on the history of the continent.
Streambox - Enables users to record streaming audio and video on their hard drives. Converts CD and RealAudio files to these formats: WAV (Microsoft Windows Wave Format), MP3 (MPEG-Layer 3) and Windows Media Audio (WMA).
Streaming Magazine - With articles from current and past issues.
StreamingMedia.com - With News, Talk, Tutorials, and webcasts of Keynote Speakers from the June 12-14, 2000 Streaming Media East conference in New York.
StreamSearch - "Aggregator and distributor of playable Internet content" offers a searchable directory of directory of more than 2 million audio and video files in all speeds and player formats, including RealPlayer, WindowsMedia, Quicktime and Liquid Audio.
Studs Terkel Conversations with America
Swimming with Sharks - CNet's News.com story about streaming media and Microsoft, April 14, 2000.
Swing Radio - 24-7 swing radio network
Synchronized Multimedia - W3C Architecture Domain
Talking History - Weekly radio program produced by the Department of History at the University of Albany. With audio Archives.
Teenage Diaries - NPR project in which "each teenage diarist is given a tape recorder for three months to a year. They conduct interviews with family and friends, keep an audio journal, and record the sounds of daily life."
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film - 104 films from the holdings of the Library of Congress which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919.
This American Life - WBEZ FM, Chicago. You can also read an interview with Ira Glass in The World According to Glass in the January 2000 Brown Alumni Magazine.
Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing - Songbook - Complete songs in RealAudio or partial Wav files, with lyrics, of such songs as Samuel Barber's Sure on this Shining Night, Ned Rorem's Snake, and Charles Ives' Circus Band. (From the PBS Great Performances series.)
ThrottleBox - Free music videos. Offers Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison interviews in multimedia file that includes audio, video, photographs and text. (Download the ThrottleBox Viewer atCNET Download.com.)
Traditional Catholic MIDI File - Don Wyckoff
Tunein Network - Database of digitized movies, music videos, how-to-videos, shorts and television shows.
TvRadioWorld - Search for web sites and live radio from a selected area.
TV 2-regionernes NET-TV - Denmark
UK Commercial Stations RDS Info
ubuweb: sound poetry - Guillaume Apollinaire, John Cage, Wyndham Lewis, Marcel Duchamp and others.
United Nations Multimedia - Offers UN Radio News in six languages, (with archive) and Video News.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library - Colloquium Committee Lectures - Offers over 30 archived lectures, listed by date and speaker, on librarianship including Further Adventures Among the Gently Mad, a 70 minute lecture by Nicholas Basbanes on April 16, 1998.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - There are audio archives of some of the Symposia and lectures including Holocaust in Greece series, October 1999, includes a panel discussions; The Holocaust in Hungary, November 9, 1999; Memory and Truth After Genocide: Guatemala, March 21, 2000 ; Speech and Silence: Poetry and the Holocaust, April 9, 2000; Persecution of Homosexuals Under The Nazi Regime, April 28, 2000; Contemporary Flight and Rescue: Seeking Refuge in America Today June 15, 2000; Roma and Sinti: Under-Studied Victims of Nazism, September 21, 2000; Confiscation of Jewish Property in Europe, 1933-1945: New Sources and Perspectives, March 3, 2001; A Good Man in Hell: General Roméo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide, June 12, 2002; Antisemitism, December 18, 2003; The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk. See also the Online Exhibitions, a number of which have audio and video components. (Staring Genocide in the Face, Music of the Holocaust Highlights from the Collection).
United States Military Academy Digital Library - Among the 56 audio files of the West Point Distinguished Lecture Series are speeches by Arthur Schlesinger (1983), Mark Helprin (1992), William F. Buckley (1981), Sandra Day O'Connor (1987), William Sloane Coffin (1981), and John Chancellor (1986),
U. S. State Department's Daily Briefing - With Archives.
United States Labor and Industrial History World Wide Web Audio Archive - Gerald Zahavi, Department of History, University at Albany.
UCSD-TV - Offers Video on Demand for various series. In The Birch Aquarium Presents is a 58 minute speech by Edward O. Wilson on "The Future of Life", given on October 31st when he was awarded the 2001 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Utah Collections - "Digital video and audio clips, pictures, maps, charts, and transcripts from KUED-TV telecourses and documentaries and KUER-FM radio programs."
Vincent Voice Library - Michigan State University's Vincent Voice Library, which "houses taped utterances (speeches, performances, lectures, interviews, broadcasts, etc.) by over 50,000 persons from all walks of life recorded over 100 years." On February 25th, 2005, the library contained "7878 items representing over 2281.67 hours of material". See also Michigan Writers Series, Voices of American Presidents and Geographers on Film.
Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project - 29 digitized audio tapes of vintage fiddlers in Kentucky. (Kentuckiana Digital Library.)
Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings - 78-rpm discs by the Berliner company of Montreal, with audio files sorted by issue number, performer and title. Selected recordings in the National Library of Canada’s collection of 78s, chosen for their Canadian content, were digitally reproduced for this site.
Virtually American - Radio drama.
Vive Voix poèmes à écouter: anthologie sonore de poésie francaise - Created by Kirk Anderson, Associate Professor of French at Wheaton College. Text and audio (in French) of several hundred poems, which are listed by author, title and first line.
VoicePrint - Free 24-hour news and information audio service from Canada. "Every day, volunteers record full-length articles, columns and feature reports related to news and sports, health, entertainment, science and more. Content is selected from more than 100 Canadian newspapers and magazines."
Voices from the Dust Bowl -Library of Congress multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings,photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk Song.
Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." With Online Programs Topical Index
WABC Musicradio 77 - Allan Sniffen, a Westchester County dentist and former disk jockey, maintains this site which retraces the history of this radio station that thrived in the 60s and 70s . Includes audio from the actual broadcasts, reminiscences by disk jockeys, music surveys, a list of the top hits of 1968 and photographs, and soundfiles of other radio stations.
Washington Week - With searchable video database.
Waterbug Records - Music samples, in WAV format, of "intelligent folk cds."
WebActive - (Note: No longer active - last broadcast was November 3, 2003.) News with the intent "to open the airwaves on a daily basis to alternative voices traditionally excluded from the political process." There are archives for Hightower Radio and Radio Nation.
Senate Republican Conference - Has Radio clips of Republican Senators
Westminster Abbey - Hear the Bells
WGBH Forum Network - Live and archived webcasts of free public lectures in the Boston area.
Winamp - Nullsoft Winamp is a "fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp is now freeware."
Wired for Books - Lectures, peoms, stories, many in RealAudio. (Ohio University'sTelecommunications Center).
Wordsworthy - Audio publication of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. See also Library Services
World Radio Network - Live audio newscast streams in RealAudio, WindowsMedia and StreamWorks 24 hours a day from 25 of the world's leading public and international broadcasters.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio - Jonathan Bowen maintains these "pointers to information on computer-based audio sound and associated software available around the world." Has a good list of Broadcasters from around the world.
Writers Guild of America Short-Short Radio Dramas
WRVO - Listen live to WRVO Playhouse. (Radio Mystery Theater is at 9:00 p.m.)
Yahoo! Launchcast - There's also Yahoo Music
ZDNet - There is a Video Index.
Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - Interactive database of Jewish songs in Yiddish, Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish. Offers sound clips and lyrics.
Zoetrope: All-Story - Has a collection of live story readings.
Cantus Corvinus Vocal Ensemble
Cornell Music Library Digitally Mastered Classical Piano Music