Audio Sources
CREATIVE COMMONS:
http://search.creativecommons.org/
THE INTERNET ARCHIVE:
http://archive.org
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS:
http://commons.wikimedia.org
FREESOUND:
http://www.freesound.org/
YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary
FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE:
http://freemusicarchive.org/
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Video/
iBEAT: CREATIVE COMMONS SAMPLE ARCHIVE:
http://ibeat.org
CC MIXTER ($ and Free):
http://dig.ccmixter.org/
SOUNDCLOUD (OFFERS CC SEARCH OPTIONS):
http://soundcloud.com/
MOBY GRATIS (150 Free Tracks for Film from Moby):
http://www.mobygratis.com/
SPINXPRESS (SEARCHES MANY CC LIBRARIES AT ONCE):
http://www.spinxpress.com/
CLEAR BITS (CC Music, Torrents)
http://www.clearbits.net/
VIMEO MUSIC STORE ($ and free, mostly FMA):
https://vimeo.com/musicstore
THE SIXTY ONE (NOT CC, TOOL FOR DISCOVERING NEW INDIE MUSICIANS):
http://thesixtyone.com
AUDIONAUTIX (FREE, NO COPYRIGHT)
http://audionautix.com/
JAMENDO ($ and free):
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
GETTY MUSIC SEARCH ($):
http://www.gettyimages.com/Music
ROYALTY FREE KINGS ($, ROYALTY FREE):
http://www.royaltyfreekings.com/
UBUWEB (UNCLEAR LICENSING, BUT INSPIRING):
http://www.ubu.com/
https://twitter.com/ubuweb [MP3s]
AUDIO PRODUCTION NETWORK ($):
http://us.audionetwork.com/
PURPLE PLANET (Free):
http://www.purple-planet.com/
PROJECT GUTTENBERG (Free, Audio Book Recordings, Music):
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/3
AUDIO SOCKET ($8-$200):
https://www.audiosocket.com/
TRIBE OF NOISE:
http://www.tribeofnoise.com/
Artist Server:
http://artistserver.com/
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
PODINGTON BEAR (FREE FOR NONCOMMERCIAL USE/PAID:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/
http://podingtonbear.com/?page_id=2
DEXTER BRITAIN (CC/PAID DEPENDING):
http://dexterbritain.co.uk/
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/
JARED C. BALOGH (CC/PAID DEPENDING):
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh
http://www.alteredstateofmine.net/
CHRIS ZABRISKIE (CC/PAID DEPENDING):
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/
http://chriszabriskie.com/
JOSH WOODWARD (CC, Custom Song Options):
http://www.joshwoodward.com/sharing/
KEVIN MACLEOD (CC):
http://incompetech.com/
TOM CUSACK COMPOSES CC FILM MUSIC:
http://freemusicforvideos.com/
PUBLIC DOMAIN MUSIC & SHEET MUSIC RESOURCES:
http://imslp.org/
http://www.pdinfo.com/
https://musopen.org/
SOUND CLIPS & EFFECTS
SOUND BIBLE:
http://soundbible.com/
BIG UNCURATED LIBRARIES
The Cylinder Archive [www.cylinder.de] – Collection Site
The cylinder recordings available here are an online project started in 1998 by Norman Bruderhofer, a phonograph collector and audio preservationist from Berlin.
78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings
Listen to this collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio…
Netlabels Central database for worldwide free netlabels
Sound Click has Creative Commons licensing as an option, and you can search through those files only here
http://www.sonicsquirrel.net/ – curated netlabel aggregator
DIRECTORIES:
Notheen netlabel listing
Connexion Bizarre netlabel directory
http://www.netlabels.org/
Earlabs survey of netlabels (dead, alive and comatose)
Quality list of netlabels
OLD TIME/HISTORIC AND POSSIBLY PUBLIC DOMAIN:
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings — many are in the public domain. “Includes transfers of 78 rpm discs in the collection of the National Library of Canada, in mp3 and RealAudio formats. All recordings offered on this site have some connection to Canada, but this covers more than you might think (for instance, any ensemble including the Canadian-born performers Harry Macdonough or Henry Burr”
First Sounds is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make mankind’s earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time. Licensed CC-by
Tinfoil.com Glenn Sage’s Cylinder of the Month — At the start of each month, Glenn posts a new cylinder transfer on his site’s home page. To go straight to the archive of past Cylinders of the Month (there are over a hundred of them at this point), click here. Recent items in mp3 and RealAudio formats; earlier items only in RealAudio.
Tyrone’s Record and Phonograph Links
Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry—Includes transfers of over 100 Berliner discs in the collection of the Library of Congress, in mp3 format. To go straight to the recordings, click here. *They provide copyright info, and it’s up to us to determine whether the recordings are in the public domain, this is a Library of Congress project.
http://www.phonozoic.net/listening.html –> links to many sites with digitized eary recordings
FEEDS:
Opensonics at Squidoo.com — various feeds of Creative Commons content, including blog posts, directories…if you like your media streamed at you then try it out!
Owimm – Give it a song, and it searches databases of (largely cc-licensed) audio for similar songs…
Detritus – sample-based, recycled audio
http://www.myspace.com/netlabelcollective –> browse their friends to find netabels on myspace
BLOGS/REVIEWS OF CC RESOURCES:
Phlow Magazine free mp3 mag focused on electronic and hip-hop
Beat Lizard formerly The Creative UnCommons, focused on CC hip-hop
Earlabs — reviews experimental CC releases
Free Metal Albums (not necessarily CC though!)
Free Music is Awesome (not necessarily CC!)
NOT CREATIVE COMMONS, BUT FREE:
[LittleWonder] 100 mp3s, Merle Sprinzen
Meloware Antique Phono Record Archive — Ten hours of material, selected sample items downloadable for free, others available through an online subscription at very reasonable rates
ON THE FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE:
Oddio Overplay links to free mp3′s throughout the web (some are CC or public domain)
Existing Online Collections:
Indian Classical Carnatic music archive (some self-recorded, others digitized)
Lieder Sound Archive Lieder and other classical vocal pieces
http://old.hellosurprise.com/ Swedish pop, many downloads made available through the artists/labels themselves
All About Jazz 1500 free downloads, limited to their page. They require outside sites to host them. They keep track of download-count as a statistic. Contact them once we can offer hosting and embeddable player.
Sphere of Hip Hop a bunch of d/l’s from artists like Pigeon John
OnClassical mp3 previews are cc-licensed. Their “perfect cd-quality fully copyright protected” .wav files are not. They are collaborating with Jamendo link to article
Magnatune Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, especially good classical
Pennsound 8,000 files…
- For non-commercial, educational use only.
UCSB Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
- 6,000+ cylinders have been transferred and are available for listening
- 78 rpms have not been transferred
touch radio: 34+ freely downloadable podcasts from People Like Us, z’ev, Stephen O’Malley interviewing Dylan Carlson, Skull Defekts, Philip Jeck, more.
Colorado Folksong Collection at UC Boulder “pretty much recordings from oral history interviews…i.e. usually one person singing, probably recorded in their living room.” -robin edgerton 12/5/08
Alan Lomax archives
Climax Golden Twins’ Victrola Favorites
Gilbert Gil’s Brazilian folk preservation project
Open Directory: Samples and Loops
Find sounds
Sounddogs.com
Sound library
Free Soundtrack Music
Speeches, famous quotes
Free Info Society Speeches, sound effects.
Hank Aaron
Spiro Agnew
Malcolm X
Huey Long: Share the Wealth
Maya Angelou: Presidential Inaugural Poem
American Rhetoric: Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Governmental sources
The Presidential Recordings Collection is made up of two distinct types of presidential speech: public speeches made by U.S. Presidents and secret recordings made in the White House between 1940 and 1973.
Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover on assassination
JFK orders more “little blue pills”
Crossing phone lines
Future Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas, on a secret mission to Puerto Rico at President Johnson’s behest, gives the President an update on the latest efforts to bring peace and stability to the Dominican Republic. Part way through, the call is gatecrashed by some uninvited guests, and Fortas tries desperately to get their attention and get them off the line.
Riots after King assassination
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley called President Johnson to ask for federal troops to help control the rioting in Chicago in the wake of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King.
United Nations
UN Radio (requires registration)
NYC
Scanners, live feeds
National and international air traffic controller feeds.
Literary
Librivox: Recordings of books in the public domain
Poets.org Some of these poems may be free to use, or may just require permission.