Virtual Library Computing Broadcasters Music

General repositories

Newsgroups

On-line radio

Software

Books (also in the UK)

Other information and items

New items. Recommended items.

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.
• Sites with audio clips.
• Sound links from Yahoo. See also search for audio and sound links.
• MBone Information Web: IP Multicast transmission of live audio and video. See also Yahoo link and MBone Index Page, Cambridge, UK, including Seminar Transmission Information for Network Users.
• Sound archive, 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!)
• Illustrated Audio, Communications Research Centre, Canada. (1995)
• AsTeR demonstration (Audio System For Technical Readings), Cornell, USA. A computing system for rendering technical documents in audio.
• Spoken Language Systems Group, MIT, USA.
• Sun audio sounds archive.
• Bird sounds from the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
• Historical speeches audio archive, including Nixon, etc., from Webcorp. See also Holiday Snaps, with audio comments.
• Extracts from classical music scores, held in France.
• Audio and other musical links from Rock Around the World.
• Hearing the Mandelbrot Set!
• Shuttle Sounds from NASA (includes sound helper tools).
• Sounds at Imperial College, London.
• Mr. Bean Sound Bites. (WAV format.)
• Electronic Zoo/NetVet Animal Sounds links.
• Sound chamber at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. (WAV, AU and RealAudio formats of rock songs.)
• CTSNET ON-AIR.com - RealAudio music (over 3,000 songs).
• MPEG-4 Structured Audio: Developer Tools on-line book.

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
  • alt.binaries.sounds.*

• 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
  • comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.* (only works on some browsers)

• 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
  • rec.audio.* (only works on some browsers)
    see also rec.audio newsgroup hierarchy from Dejanews

• Other newsgroups:
  • news:bionet.audiology
  • news:comp.sys.amiga.audio
  • news:comp.sys.sgi.audio
  • news:misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.audio
  • Audio newsgroups (only works on some browsers)
  • Sound newsgroups (only works on some browsers)

Search for newsgroup articles on audio and sound in Deja News.

On-line radio

• Radio Station Home Page from broadcast.com.
• World Radio Network (international public radio).
• AudioNet including Talk Radio using RealAudio.
• RealAudio at SMS including the latest news from the IRN.
• AudioNet broadcast network on the Internet.
• AudioSports.Net - sports coverage using RealAudio.
• Cyberville Radio using TrueSpeech.
• GoGaGa Internet Radio Station.
• iRADIO interactive radio.
• Intervox Communications, Internet access for broadcasters, including IVOX Audio Center.
• RadioNet Talk Radio, California, USA.
• RadioTower, including a console to receive on-line RealAudio broadcasts from selected radio stations.
• NetRadio network.
• Voice of America Internet Audio including RealAudio.
• An Internet Multicasting Service including Internet Talk Radio.
• Internet Talk Radio:
  • USA site: NCSA.
  • UK site: Imperial College (current broadcasts).
• Virtual Radio (TM).
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio trial including a news experiment (with several mirror sites including Imperial College, UK).
• WXYC on-line radio.
• Radio HK, Hong Kong. Real-time Internet radio, 24 hour service for high-speed connections only.
• Premiere Radio Networks. Celebrity interviews, comedy, sports, etc., audio clips.
• Sunlite Radio - RealAudio music.
• WWOZ - RealAudio New Orleans music, jazz, blues, etc.
• SHOUTcast MP3 audio streaming music stations.

See also other broadcasters.

Software

• AudioFile, a device-independent network-transparent audio server from DEC CRL. Support for Digital Alpha AXP systems running OSF/1, Digital RISC systems running Ultrix, SGI Indigo systems running IRX 4.0.5, and Sun Microsystems SPARCstations running SunOS 4.1.1 and 4.1.3. (See TNS Technology Demonstrations from Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, USA.)
• Audio Help Systems for Windows - Word 6.0 Adviser and WordPerfect 6.1 Adviser.
• Cool Edit, shareware multi-format digital sound editor for MS Windows.
• Free BSD Unix audio software.
• GoldWave, shareware digital audio editor for MS Windows.
• MPEG Audio Layer-3 FAQ and shareware for IBM PC, Sun, HP, SGI, Linux, NeXTSTEP 3.3. See also MPEG audio and setting up an MPEG audio player.
• MP3 software - players for Windows, Winamp plug-ins, etc. See also Lycos information.
• Network Audio System (NAS) for networked audio support under the X Window System. SunOS 4.1.[23], Solaris 2.x, IRIX 5.x, FreeBSD, Linux, SVR4.[02]. Add the following line to your ~/.mailcap configuration file to play sounds from your WWW client program such as netscape:
  audio/*; autool -v 50 %s
  Hear the SND and WAV format example sounds. See also other audio files.
• RadioDestiny streaming audio software suite, for Windows. Free for hobbyists.
• RealAudio software for real-time audio over the Internet, from Progressive Networks, for Macintosh and Windows only. See also UK site.
• Rplay, a flexible network audio system. SunOS 4.1.X, Solaris 2.X, Linux, SGI IRIX 4 & 5, HP9000/705, and HP9000/710. Uses Berkeley sockets. X Windows is not required.
• sendaudio.c and rcvaudio.c C program source files for sending .au data from any Unix box to a Sun by Jonathan Wang. A substitute for showaudio in the mosaic default.
• Shockwave (streaming audio).
• Sonique Windows MP3 player.
• SoX Sound eXchange (sound file format converter for Unix and DOS PCs, 1995).
• 1-step audio streaming player for Windows 95 from Audio International.
• TiMidity++ MIDI to WAVE converter/player.
• ToolVox Web browser plug-in from Voxware for Windows, Mac and Unix. See also other downloadable software.
• TrueSpeech from the DSP Group, for real-time audio over the Internet, under Windows 3.XX, 95 and NT (and Macintosh soon). Trial use, registration required.
• UltraPlayer Windows MP3 player.
• VocalTec Internet Phone (to speak to other users) and Internet Wave (a Web browser audio on demand helper application) for PCs.
• WebAudio - WWW live audio streaming for Windows 95 and NT.
• WHAM (Waveform Hold and Modify), a Windows 3.1 application for manipulating digitised sound. Read/write/transforms WAVE format files, raw eight-bit sound files and various other formats.
• Winamp Windows MP3 player.
• Windows Audio & Sounds shareware programs from SharewareJunkies.com.
• XAnim audio and video under X windows.
• Xaudio multiple platform MP3 playback library products for download.
• X windows distributed audio software from the X Consortium.

Other information and items

• Text to speech translator (click here for an example).
• The Vibe: Sounds music news and on-line records from Metaverse.
• Documents and programs to do with sounds: anonymous FTP archive, CWI, The Netherlands.
• NCSA Mosaic Demo Document which includes plently of audio clips.
• Music Research archive.
• Computational Phonology.
• Vocal vowels exhibit from the San Francisco Exploratorium.
• Sound and Computation ( ACM SIGSOUND special interest group).
• MIDI Home Page.
• Mathematica Sound Gallery from Wolfram Research, Inc.
• Cohen Acoustical, Inc., consultants in Acoustics, Technology Assessment, and Telecommunications.
• Audio Engineering Society (AES), an international professional organization - Education Committee Home Page.
• SoundSite - promotion of ideas and products in the home audio and video marketplace.
• SimPhonics, Inc. produce real-time digital audio systems.
• Audio Publishers Association, including Spoken Audio on the Internet.
• Audiobooks, including searchable catalog.
• Audio Book Club.
• AudioBooks Online.
• Audio BookWorld.
• AudioDrama.
• Audio Literature.
• Audio and MIDI FAQ from Silicon Graphics.
• The Audio Guys - audio recording answers.
• Audio Highway - digital audio player.
• Audible Internet audio, including MobilePlayer.
• a2b music - secure digital on-line distribution of CD-quality music.
• Internet Sound Institute (ISI) - learn about sound systems and operational techniques.
• Audio Institute of America - recording engineer home training.
• Digital Loudspeaker (DLS) technology from 1 ... Limited, Cambridge, UK.
• Computer Real Audio Programing. :-)

Part of the OUCL archive.