Sites with audio clips
This page provides links to digitized sound archives available on the
Internet.
The archives listed here contain mostly sounds in U-LAW format. These
sounds play directly on a Sun audio device but you might need a
special software to get them to play on your machine. This document,
Setting
Properly your Web reader explains how to obtain the necessary
software and make the changes to your web browser in order to play
most sounds types on your Mac, Windows PC or UNIX machine. For
further information, try the Audio
Formats FAQ.
This document is divided into the following sections:
Sounds,
Music and
Voice
- SunSITE
USA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (also available
by ftp)
-
Contents:
anime,
birds,
cartoons,
comedy,
commercials,
computer,
intros,
miscellaneous,
monty python,
movies,
next generation,
phonemes,
sayings,
screams,
series,
sound effects,
sound tracks,
star trek,
tv,
unknown,
whales;
also, Chinese music,
PC sounds (.wav).
- SunSITE
Japan (Science University of Tokyo)
- Contents:
anime,
birds,
cartoons, comedy,
commercials,
computer, intros,
miscellaneous,
monty
python, movies, next
generation, phonemes, sayings, screams, series,
sound
effects, sound
tracks, star trek, tv, unknown, whales
- SunSITE Europe (Imperial College, London)
- Contents:
chinese-songs,
misc,
music,
tv+films/misc,
tv+films/startrek
- Sounds
from the multimedia
collection at Warsaw University
- Contents:
root dir (sounds),
animal voices,
star wars;
see also, sounds (.mod).
- Bird calls from the Australian
National Botanic Gardens
- Northwestern
University Department of Radio/TV/Film Audio Image Vault
- Production work of the students and faculty of Radio/TV/Film at
Northwestern
- Standard sounds distributed with:
Collections
- BMG Classics Classics World audio site
- The Canadian Music Exchange
- Canada's premiere site for Indie Candian Music
- Chicago PsyberView
- Chicago-area bands
- Cuban Music
- An annotated collection of authentic Cuban music playing on AM radio,
courtesy of Jay Novello.
- Euphony Magazine's Music Room
- The Internet Ghetto Blaster!
- Clayton Wynter's Hip-Hop music page
- Internet Underground Music
Archive
- ``the net's first free hi-fi music archive''
360
bands, 3.8 Gb of music and images and still growing!
IUMA is
also now involved in MBONE concerts - live
audio and video over the Internet!
- Manifest Records
- Featuring
Christ Analogue,
Ipecac Loop,
Klavo, and
Social Virus Inc.
- Media.Maniacs
- An indie multimedia company featuring graphics,
animation, political commentary, and science
fiction and lots of digitized music excerpts
- Music Kitchen
- Music Scene
- Musicians on the Internet
- ``A virtual radio station created and run by musicians on the World
Wide Web''
- Nashville Online
- Pakistani Classical Music and Pakistani Modern Music
- Compiled by Bilal A. Bhutta
- Planet
Starchild II
- ``An Online MultiMedia Catalog of Indie Music and More...''
- Reggae (.au)
(.wav)
- From the Jammin Reggae Archive home page
- Rock Around the World
- The #1 Rated, Nationally and Internationally aired
radio show of the 70's, is back through the Internet.
The RATW Internet site is designed to enable the viewer to,
literally, Rock Around the World through a wide range of entertaining
files, including RATW radio broadcasts, music sound bites, rock history,
new releases, radio programming, interviews, rock trivia, travel, and many
others.
- RockWeb Interactive
- Ruckus Records
- A small indie label out of Portland, OR
- Song snippets
from the Rare Groove
- house, hip-hop, and techno music
- Sony
Music's sound clips
- Includes artists from Columbia Records, Epic and Sony Classical
recording labels
- Sound Wire
- An online merchant of new music with many MPEG sound clips and some
full songs
- VD records
- THE
VIBE LINE
- New music from VIBE magazine
- Virtual Radio
- New music posted by permission of the bands who made them.
- Windham Hill Records
- The World Square: Music
- Featuring independent labels such as
Bad Habits Music,
Big Round Records,
Black Boot Records,
Bogus Records,
C/Z Records,
DMP Records,
East Side Digital Music,
EEG Records,
Enemy Records,
Etiquette Records,
Go Kart Records,
Hands On Music, Inc.,
Heyday Records,
Jazz Inspiration Records,
Metropolis Records,
Noteworthy Records,
Propulsion Records ,
Rage Records,
Revelation Records,
Rhino Records,
Royalty Records, and
Triloka Records/Worldly Music.
- The songs repository at ftp.luth.se
- Contents:
10000 Maniacs,
Unknown,
Alan Parsons,
All,
Alice in Chains,
B52s,
Babylon Ad,
Bach,
Beachboys,
Beatles,
Belinda,
Belly,
Berlin,
Billy Joel,
Black Crowes,
Bob Marley,
Cars,
Cause & Effect,
Clash,
Cure,
David Bowie,
Depeche Mode,
Derek and Dominoes,
Descendents,
Dire Straits,
Don Mclean,
Dulfer,
Eddie Brickell,
Elo,
EMF,
Enya,
Eric Clapton,
Extreme,
Genesis,
Guns n Roses,
Heart,
Heavy Metal,
Information Society,
Integrity,
Inxs,
James Brown,
Jarre,
Jimi Hendrix,
Kansas,
Kix,
Korgis,
Led Zeppelin,
Lenny Kravitz,
Lost Boys,
Maggotz,
Mamas and Papas,
Mark Wheadon,
Megadeth,
Men wo Hats,
Model 500,
Muppets,
Nine Inch Nails,
Nocturnus,
Pearl Jam,
Pet Shop Boys,
Phil Collins,
Poison,
Police,
Primus,
Ratt,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Rise Robots Rise,
Roxette,
Santana,
Sepultura,
Severed Heads,
Sade,
Simon & Garfunkel,
Simple Minds,
Skid Row,
Soul II Soul,
Sound Tracks,
Springsteen,
Steppenwolf,
Steve Miller,
Sting,
Strauss,
Styx,
Talking Heads,
Techno,
Ten Sharp,
Testament,
Tori Amos,
U2,
UB40,
Weird Al,
Whitesnake,
Who,
Yes,
ZZ Top
- The songs repository at www.nvg.unit.no
- Contents:
BBB,
Jumpy Chair,
Ole Og Dei,
Twisted Helices.
Sites dedicated to individual music groups
- Beastie Boys
- DEF FX
- Elvis Presley
- Flamenco
- FLATUS
- God Street Wine
- The Grateful Dead
- Janet Jackson
- Nine Inch Nails
- Robbie Laws & The Urban All-Stars
- The Rolling Stones
- Seal
- Slightly Miffed
- The Slowest Train in the World
- Suzanne Vega
- The Swamis - alternative pop from North Carolina
- They Might Be Giants
- Violet Arcana
- Willard E. Love
- 1992 U.S. Presidential Debate
- Michigan State University campus, October 19, 1992.
- B.A.W.P.:
Best-quality Audio Web Poems
- Spoken word audio recordings
- Canadian Broadcasting Corportation Radio
- The Celebrity Lecture Series
- Sound clips from the Annual Celebrity Lecture Series, hosted
by Michigan State University.
- Cyberspace Report
- A public affairs radio show aired on KUCI, 88.9 FM in Irvine, California
- Internet Multicasting Service - at Internet Town Hall
- Try, for example, Radio on the Internet, Learn French from
Radio French International, Internet University,
and Internet Talk
Radio Travelling Circus.
- Complete archive of the
Internet Multicasting Service radio archives
- Choose a
Internet Talk Radio mirror site near you.
- The
Jerky Boys
- Brief clips of the Jerky Boys offending over the phone at their best.
- KPIG Radio
- KPIG Radio Pig Parts (comedy bits) and the daily newscast and political commentary (in RealAudio format).
- LawTalk
- Short sound clips discussing various aspects of US Law, courtesy of
the Indiana University School of Law
-
Media On Demand
- Private MBONE
retransmissions of previous MBONE multicast seminar sessions (see also
the main
page for this service)
-
Movies
- Sound clips from movies from the SunSITE audio collection.
- See also: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
- The Nation's Forum
- Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders, 1918-1920.
Courtesy of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division,
Library of Congress
- President Clinton's Saturday Radio Addresses
- An annotated set of radio addresses given between October 16 and
December 11, 1993. The complete set of Saturday radio addresses
(October 16, 1993 to present) is available from the UUNET
archive.
- TV
shows
- Battlestar
Galactica, Beavis
and Butthead, Bugs
Bunny, Daffy
Duck, Dr. Who,
The
Flintstones, Foghorn,
Get
Smart, Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy, Late
Night with David Letterman, Mission
Impossible, MST3K,
Monty
Python, Prisoner,
Quantum
Leap, Red
Dwarf, Ren
& Stimpy, Rocky
Bullwinkle, Saturday
Night Live, Schoolhouse
Rock, Sea
Quest, Seinfeld
(annotated), Seinfeld,
The
Simpsons, Stalling
Project,
Star Trek,
Star
Trek, Star
Trek: The Next Generation,
Three
Stooges, Tiny
Toons.
- Vincent Voice
Library
- Samples of historical speeches from the Vincent Voice
Library at Michigan State University.
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Last updated: Friday, 23-Aug-2002 16:24:32 CDT