Multimedia Search Engines and Subject Directories: You can use Google or Yahoo to search for terms such as webcast, netcast, audio archive, audiocast, coursecast, cybercast, podcast, Internet broadcast, lecture series, archived audio, archived video, archived lectures, web media, multimedia, audio, audio archive, video archive, on demand, streaming, swarmcasting, realaudio, mp3, sdp, etc. For example, to locate university webcasts use this Google search query: inurl:webcast inurl:.edu. Blinkx claims to have 35 million hours of searchable video.
- Offers podcasts (in French) on the bande dessiné (comic strips) including:
- Search for the Celebration of Traditional Music Collection, Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives or the Blue Ridge Institute Archives. There are also hundreds of interviews. Some highlights:
- Interviews by Lesley Dingle, Daniel Bates and Matt Martin. "An expanding archive in which we document the careers and achievements of eminent scholars associated with the Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge." Also accessible via dSpace. I listened to the Fifth Interview with Sir Eli Lauterpacht, 28 March 2008. Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht is Emeritus Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Honorary Professor of International Law, Trinity College. Lauterpacht talks about the Ligitan and Sipadan case and describes the location:
That was a lovely case because it related to such a beautiful part of the world. Ligitan and Sipadan are two islands off the east coast of Borneo and title to them was disputed between Indonesia and Malaysia. Sipadan is known to the scuba diving fraternity of the world as one of the great places to go, because it is, in fact, a mushroom of coral that comes up from the bottom of the ocean then flattens out into this small island. But once you equip yourself with diving gear and you go out over the edge of the island and down underneath the mushroom top, you enter an incredibly beautiful world of multicoloured fish and all the splendour that goes with that kind of experience. Unfortunately, I couldn‟t share it, because I wasn‟t much of a scuba diver. But I did put on a mask and goggles and have a look underwater and began to see what it was all about.
With Hall's permission, O'Donnell had the writing cabin moved to his property. (See About the Fishouse and the Brunswick Times Record May 25, 2006 story by Elizabeth Brogan - From the Fishouse.)- FSI Viewer - "Present high resolution images of 10,000 by 10,000 pixel and above on-line requiring low bandwidth only enabling the user to freely zoom, pan and rotate the image."
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional - National Library of Brazil. The Divisão de Música e 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.
- La Fureur de lire
- 60 second readings (lectamatons) [in French] from bookstores, schools, libraries....."On peut expliquer les raisons pour lesquelles on a choisi cet extrait... Créativité, originalité, humour sont les bienvenus, mais toujours dans le respect d'autrui." A project of Radio télévision belge de la communauté française.
- Galaxy of Stories - Ford Gallaxy of Stories. "Famous names from the worlds of film, TV and comedy tell memorable children's stories and bring them to life in their own unique way."
- Alice in Wonderland - Imelda Staunton
- Aladdin - Tom Baker
- Brave Tin Soldier - Shane Ritchie
- Cinderella - Ashley Jensen
- Dick Whittington - Clive Anderson
- Emperor's Birthday Suit - Richard E Grant
- Gingerbread Man - Maureen Lipman
- Golden Goose - Harry Enfield
- Jack and the Beanstalk - Jack Davenport
- Little Match Girl - Tamzin Outhwaite
- Little Red Riding Hood - Miranda Richardson
- Princess and the Pea - Samantha Morton
- Puss in Boots - Julian Clary
- Rapunzel - Greta Scacchi
- Rumpelstiltskin - Robert Lindsay
- Sinbad - Christopher Eccleston
- Snow Queen - Joanna Lumley "reads a chilling version of The Snow Queen"
- Tinderbox - Geoffrey Palmer
- Three Little Pigs - Laurence Llewelyn Bowen
- Ugly Duckling - Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Gallica Archives de la Parole - Bibliothèque nationale de France. There are recordings include Guillaume Apollinaire reading his poems Le Voyageur, Le Pont Mirabeau and Marie on 24 December, 1913.
- Genome Webcasts - Links to online audio and video files about genetics offered by the Human Genome Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- Georgetown University: Webcast
- German Marshall Fund of the United States - Has a Podcast Series.
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive - With over 120 librettos in the Opera Index. 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 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 Lakes Radio Consortium - Environmental news
- 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.
- Guardian Unlimited: Audio Files - UK newspaper audio reports. Browse by subject. Samples:
- 'Where there's water there's hope' (December 7, 2006) - Dan Glaister on the Owens River in California
- 'The good work really stood out' (December 5 2006) - Interview of Lynn Barber on the 2006 Turner Prize winner Tomma Abts
- 'You couldn't build this in your back garden' (January 11, 2005) - "Martin Wainwright talks to the Duchess of Northumberland about the huge £3.3m treehouse that is about to open in the grounds of Alnwick castle, complete with toilets, classrooms and a cafe."
- 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 - See also Harper Audio.
- 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 Ransom Center, University of Texas - Has a rich Multimedia collection of video, audio, images and slideshows. Of special note are the 65 interviews, with transcripts, from the Mike Wallace Interview television show which ran from 1957 to 1960. You also hear the commercials for Philip Morris cigarettes. See also
- Steve Allen - 7/7/1957. With transcript
- Diana Barrymore - 7/14/1957. With transcript
- Pearl Buck - 2/8/1958. With transcript
- William Douglas
- Oscar Hammerstein II - 3/15/1958. With transcript
- Elsa Maxwell - With transcript
- Tony Perkins - 3/22/1958. With transcript
- Walter Reuther - 1/25/1958. With transcript
- Lillian Roth - 4/5/1958. With transcript
- Margaret Sanger - 9/21/1957. With transcript
- Frank Lloyd Wright - 9/1/1957 and 9/28/1957. With transcript
- 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@Home - Has a collection of archived videos including:
- Women, Men and Food: Putting Gender on the Table - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, April 12 and 13, 2007.
- Women and War in the 20th Century - March 13, 2007.
- Fifty Years in Media: Changes in Journalism - May 8, 2006.
- An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma - September 15, 2005. Features a "conversation between John Lithgow and Mr. Ma, a breathtaking performance of Bach's First Suite for Solo Cello by Mr. Ma, a student quintet, and the Harvard Arts Medal presentation."
- The Business of Baseball - May 9, 2005
- Genetically Modified Foods - December 14, 2004.
- A Conversation with Filmmaker Mira Nair - Talking with John Lithgow, March 18, 2004.
- Harvard Business Schools Videotools
- Harvard University Institute of Politics Forum Archives - Outstanding collection of archived forums.
- The Role of Islam in Muslim Politics - Karen Armstrong, Ali Asani, William Graham and Roy Mottahedeh
- Death Penalty (November 7, 2001)
- Hip Hop Culture (October 10, 2001)
- Civil Rights Movement (November 26, 2001)
- The Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin (April 18, 2006)
- A Celebration of Ida B. Wells (April 6, 2006)
- Redemption Songs: The Relationship between Black Arts and Activism in the 21st Century (March 3, 2006)
- 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.
- Hindsight - "Hindsight is the only program on Australian radio devoted exclusively to social history."
- 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 News Network: Podcasts
- 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.
- HomeGrown - WFPL, 89.3 FM in Louisville, Kentucky. Sundy garden radio show with Bob Hill and Jeneen Wiche. Has an Audio Archive of past shows.
- Hulu - Archived (on-demand) television shows. Selected by the Associated Press as Best of the Web in 2008. See On the Net: Hulu is Web site of the year by Jake Coyle, Associated Press, December 19, 2008. "Hulu hosts more than 1,000 shows, from "Family Guy" to "Saturday Night Live." There are more than 130 content providers, not only NBC and Fox, but Sony Pictures Television, MGM Studios, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures and PBS. The site's database of full-length films also has grown."
- HymnSite - Searchable site features MIDI hymn and psalm tunes from the 1989 edition of theUnited 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.
- Icecast
- Icelandic National Broadcasting Service
- Idea City - Toronto. "Canada's Premiere Meeting of the Minds." Talks include:
- Faith Popcorn
- Margaret Atwood
- Tavi Gevinson
- Idiotvox Podcast Directory
- ISC365 - Conference organizer Reed Exhibitions provides sessions from ISC West held in March 2007 in Las Vegas. Available webcasts (free registration):
- Applying Smart Cards and Biometrics to Access Control by Neville Pattinson, Axalto, April 4, 2006 (53:24)
- Intelligent Video and IP Network Video by Fredrik Nilsson, Axis Communications (01:10:27)
- In the Groove - The Georgia Tech Virtual EOC: Ready Today For Tomorrow, April 6, 2006 (54:09)
- i-drive - Free MP3 storage.
- IFILM - Searchable.
- Imeem - "Imeem is a social network that enables users to discover, interact and express themselves with media, including music, video and photos, and form connections based on shared tastes and interests." See The Music Industry's New Internet Problem by Douglas McMillan, Business Week, March 6, 2009. "Streaming music sites with freely accessible content are being used by a growing number of listeners as a substitute for buying music."
- 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 - "Established in 1969 in Amsterdam to function as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents.
- 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.
- International Press Institute (IPI) - Has a weekly radio show with online archives.
- 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..."
- Audio Archive
- Live Music Archive
- Net Labels
- Open Source Audio
- Television Archive for September 11th
- Other Minds Archive (San Francisco radio station)
- Movie Collection
- Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures
- Collected Works of Al Jolson
- Naropa University Archives - "5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The collection was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde." Has A performance by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Steven Taylor given on July 13, 1987.
- 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.)
- Investor Calendar - Vcall
- Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project - Artists are listed by name, medium and location.
- IT Conversations - "Listener supported audio programs."
- Ithaca College CellFlix Festival
- IW Center: A community site for information workers... - Has Podcast Archive
- J. Paul Getty Museum Media Gallery
- J.S. Bach Homepage: Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files
- James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy - Rice University. Among the archived Webcasts are:
- From China to Random House, Da Chen, November 14, 2006.
- The Reagan Diaries, Doug Brinkley, October 27, 2006.
- American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, Bernard-Henry Levy, February 13, 2006.
- Shell Distinguished Lecture Series - Saudi Arabia and the International Oil Market, Prince Saud Al Faisal, September 21, 2005.
- Integration or Exclusion: The Headscarf Ban and French Secularism, Daniel Cohen & Patrick Weil, November 8, 2004.
- 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 F. Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University. The Forum, "one of the world's premier arenas for political speech, discussion and debate" has a searchable Video and Podcast Archive and Transcripts.
- John Holmes Collection - Biography, poetry and audio files. John Holmes (1904-62) was a poet and professor of English at Tufts University.
- Joost - Previously known as the Venice Project, founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Joost uses peer-to-peer technology to provide "high-quality video experience based on premium content, while guaranteeing copyright protection for content owners and creators."
- 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. Has an On Demand Archive
- KEXP - Seattle public radio described by the New Yorker as eclectic.
- 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.
- 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."
- Lancet: Listen to the Lancet - "Weekly audio summary featuring discussion and debate of the most important research and analysis in health and medicine from The Lancet."
- Landscapes of Global Capital - Has a database of advertisements with over 900 digitized (Quicktime format) ads from 1995 to 2004, searchable by company name, date, keyword or business type.
- Last.fm - Customized radio.
- Law-related Webcasts: University law schools and courts are increasingly providing online webcasts. Among the law school resources are: Case School of Law Lectures, Duke Law School Webcasts, Emory Law School Webcasts, Georgetown University Law School Webcasts, Harvard University Law School Webcast Archive Moritz College of Law - Archived Webcasts, University of Houston Law Center Internet Broadcast Archive, University of Miami School of Law Webcast @ UM Law, and Vanderbilt University Law School Webcast Archives. Court resources include: Indiana Courts: Court Webcasts which has Oral Arguments Online, Michigan Judicial Institute Webcasts,
- 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.
Lectures
- Youtube: Berkeley
- Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation: Video and Audio
- LibriVox
- “LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.”
- Leonard Lopate Show WNYC - See Leonard Lopate, Conversational Acrobat, by Warren St. John, New York Times, March 20, 2005.
- Leonard Bernstein’s Boston Years: Team Research in A Harvard Classroom
- Interviews and transcripts. "Created by students, faculty and librarians, it focuses on the conductor’s childhood and early career, and features more than a dozen unique interviews with Bernstein family, friends and contemporaries." (Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University.)
- Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter - Curated by Marjorie Hassen, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, University of Pennsylvania. With RealAudio Musical Selections and Interview Segments.
- Libération: Programmes et Podcasts - French newspaper.
- Library of Congress Presents Music, Theater and Dance - Performing Arts Digital Library, formerly known as I Hear America
- Library of Congress Webcasts
- LibriVox - Volunteers read public domain books. See Catalogue. Contents so far (November 2005): Baum, L. Frank. The Road to Oz; Christie, Agatha. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Notes from the Underground; Irving, Washington. Old Christmas; James, Henry. An International Episode; London, Jack. Call of the Wild ; Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven ; Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus; and Wodehouse, PG. Psmith in the City.
- Link.tv - "Global and national news, uncompromising documentaries and diverse cultural programs...." With an archive of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East , which "features selections from daily TV news programs produced by national and regional broadcasters throughout the Middle East. The reports are presented unedited and translated, when necessary, into English. Mosaic includes news from Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, and Iran, among others..."
- 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
- Listen to Article - Option offered by several newspapers including the International Herald Tribune See, for example, Global warming called 'unequivocal' by Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew C. Revkin, February 2, 2007. The newspaper gives you a number of choices: e-email article, listen to article, printer-friendly, 3-column format, translate, share article, add to clippings, text size
- 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 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 following have MP3 versions of original music CDs:
- (CT) Found Sound
- (CT) Akapella
- (CT) Bluezette
- CT-75: miniatures, volume 1
- Live Streams from NPR Music Stations
- 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.
- Lycos Radio Network
- 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.
- Magnatune - Free downloads, via mp3 and podcasts, of classical, electonica, jazz & blues, metal & punk, new age, rock, and world music. Offers automated licensing which "means that with a few clicks of the mouse, you can get high quality music and a valid legal agreement to use it."
- 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 - "Archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976. A traveling salesman from Springfield, Missouri, Hunter took his reel-to-reel tape recorder into the hills and backwoods of the Ozarks, preserving the heritage of the region by recording the songs and stories of many generations of Ozark history." Online resources inlcude lyrics, sheet music and sound files (RealAudio, MIDI and AIFF) . 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. Edited by Michael F. Murray, Missouri State University. The collection is 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
- Casey Jones
- Media.org - Sections of interest include Talk Radio. "Internet Talk Radio started broadcasting in 1993 as the first radio station on the Internet. As part of the museum.media.org effort to rescue some of our past work, we're also maintaining archives of early programs in their original state. Over time, we hope to go back and rescue these archives, but for now we offer them to you the way they looked in the early days of the web."
- Medialink - Provides streaming video and audio reports for corporations, public relations agencies and other organizations.
- Mediamosaic Library: The Great Schools - Stanford Psychology - Over 5 hours of synchronized video, slides, and transcriptions.
- 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.
- Memoriav - "Association for the preservation of the audiovisual heritage of Switzerland."
- 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
- Microsoft Events and Webcasts - Has Speeches and Keynotes as well as recently recorded events and webcasts and monthly archived webcasts back to October 2003.
- 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.
- Miller Center of Public Affairs - University of Virginia.
- Milton Friedman (1912-2006) - Nobel prize winner in Economics in 1976. His 1980 10-part series Free to Choose is available at IdeaChannel.
- MiniRadio - Links to popular radio stations in Scandinavia.
- Minnesota Public Radio
- MIT Communications Forum
- MIT OpenCourseWare - "Free, searchable, access to MIT's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world." Provides course description, syllabus, calendar, readings, study materials and related resources for over 1200 courses, organized by subject. Some courses also include videotapes, simulation software, textbooks lecture notes, exams and solutions. Anne Margulies, director of the MIT Open Courseware, spoke about the initiative on February 22, 2006. She also spoke on March 23, 2004 at MIT. See also The Economics of Open Content Symposium, January 23-24, 2006. There is a list of Video and Audio on MIT OCW. Here are a few courses to explore: Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853-1854)
- MIT World - "Distributed Intelligence." "Free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT." The index contains more than 625 videos." You can browse the videos for such topics as Biotechnology, Public Policy and
- Do-It-Yourself Biology (1:10:47) - Natalie Kuldell and Reshma Shetty, January 14, 2009
- A Few Things Learned from Craigslist - By Craig Newmark, November 14, 2008 (1:12:22)
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil - By Philip Zimbardo, April 2, 2007 (1:50:43)
- David Milch: TV's Great Writer (1:23:15) - April 20, 2006
- Amory Lovins: Winning the Oil Endgame (1:36:37) - February 27, 2006
- Donald R. Sadoway (1:15:16) - February 21, 2006
- Lawrence K. Fish: Not Your Typical CEO (53:54) - October 19, 2005
- Ricardo Semler: Leading by Omission (48:09) - September 22, 2005
- Thomas L. Friedman: The World is Flat (1:15:04), May 16, 2005
- Maurice Sendak: Descent into Limbo (:29:47) - April 5, 2003
- Ellen T. Harris: Handel As Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas, February 13, 2002
- MoMA Audio Programs
- Motherboard.tv
- Motley Fool Evening Report - Hear This Week's Show or Archived Shows.
- Moving Image Collections
- 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.
- MP3radio.com
- 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).
- The Music of the American Civil War (1861-1865) - MIDI files sequenced by Benjamin Robert Tubb. See also American Civil War Music and Music of the War Between the States.
- 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.)
- Naropa University Audio Archive Project - Boulder, Colorado. Nationally recognized writing and poetics collection called “one of the three most important literary audio collections in America” by the New York Times. Over five hundred hours are available online at the Internet Archive.
- 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 Academies of Science - Interviews - "Distinguished scientists talk about their research, why they became scientists and other aspects of their careers." With Archived Interviews. Scientists include Freeman Dyson, Paul R. Ehrlich and Roger N. Beachy and Dr. Claude M. Steele. The interviewer is Dorian Devins.
- National Academies Webcast Archives
- 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. See also their Videos and Podcasts.
- 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 Portrait Gallery: Audio Profiles - Washington, D.C.
- National Portrait Gallery: Interviews with photographers - London. "Series of sound interviews with photographers represented within the collection." Photographers interviewed to date (December 2006): Jillian Edelstein, Jill Furmanovsky, Fergus Greer, Johnnie Shand Kydd, Barry Marsden, Tom Miller, and Bryan Wharton.
- 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 Conservancy Podcasts
- Nature Stories:
- Mushroom Fever - Evan Strusinski describes mushroom hunting. Produced by Natalie Jablonski with the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, August 20, 2009.
- Nature Sounds of Australia - With a Catalogue of sounds.
- Negativland - Experimental-music and art collective. Offers some interesting Audio Files.
- NerdTV - Video interviews (with transcripts) with Doug Engelbart, Dan Bricklin, Anina, Avram Miller, Dan Drake, Dave Winer, Tim O'Reilly, Brewster Kahle, Bill Joy, Max Levchin, and Andy Hertzfeld.
- NetGuide: Happenings
- NetRadio Network - 120 music channels.
- Netscape Plug-ins: Audio/Video
- News and Information via Streaming Audio & Video - Gary Price (See also his Speech and Transcript Center). Newspapers & Newscasting (vlogs, vodcasts)
- AvantGo - "Free service that delivers thousands of mobile websites to consumers on their handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones. Thousands of companies and dozens of major brands, including American Airlines, CNET, GM, Rolling Stone and The New York Times."
- Dallas Star-Telegram - Vodcasts of "Galloway & Hate" with sports columnists Randy Galloway and Jennifer Floyd Engel, "Movie Madness" with critics Christopher Kelly and Robert Philpot; and "On the Hot Seat" with political columnists J.R. Labbe and Bob Ray Sanders.
- Liberation - Paris
- Naples Daily News Studio 55 - Launched in April 2006, they offer video for ipods (vodcasts), PSP for Sony's PlayStation Portable, and streaming for PC and MacIntosh computers. "Studio 55's 20-minute daily vodcasts are ultraslick, local newscasts that mix the best MTV-style graphics with dynamic maps and continuous plugs for stories on the Daily News Web site and in the print edition." (Vying for Video on the Go by A.S. Berman, Presstime, September 2006, pp. 38-41.)
- New School Webcasts - See also Archive of Webcasts for Special Events. Examples:
- Playwright Jane Taylor on Sincerity - South African writer and critic. May 13, 2009.
- Cynthia Ozick: The Rights of History and the Rights of Imagination - March 8, 2006
- New York Times Video - See also New York Times Podcasts, Book Review Podcasts, Current Film, New York Times Book Review: Audio Interviews and Readings and Talk to the Newsroom: Lawrie Mifflin, Editor, Television and Video, October 30, 2006.
- New York Academy of Medicine Audio/Video Archive
- New Yorker Magazine: Online Only - Has a monthly Fiction Podcast with fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Each month we ask a current fiction writer to choose a story from the magazine's archive to read and discuss."
- Open Secrets (37:39) - December 17, 2007. Jhumpa Lahiri reads William Trevor’s short story "A Day" first published in the magazine in December 1993.
- Waiting (32:57) - November 12, 2007. Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant’s short story "When We Were Nearly Young," originally published in the New Yorker in 1960.
- Chapter and Verse (21:57) - October 15, 2007. Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges’s short story "The Gospel According to Mark," originally published in the New Yorker on October 23, 1971.
- Talking Pictures (33:41) - September 17 2007. Barbara Rosenblatt reads and Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley’s short story "Somewhere Else," originally published in the magazine on October 23, 1978.
- Urban Planning (17:50) - July 9, 2007. Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme’s short story “I Bought a Little City” first published in the New Yorker in 1974.
- The Dating Game (17:38) - June 11, 2007. Edwidge Danticat discusses Junot Díaz’s 1995 short story "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)," first published in the magazine in 1995. The story is read by Junot Diaz.
- Listen and Learn (23:12) - August 13, 2007. George Saunders reads Isaac Babel’s short story "You Must Know Everything" written in 1915 and published in the magazine in 1966.
- Reunions (12:00) - December 25, 2006. Richard Ford reads John Cheever's story "Reunion" first published in the New Yorker on October 27, 1962.
- 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.)
- New York Times Podcasts>
- 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."
- Nightly Business Report
- Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida - Has streaming Live Broadcasts of high profile trials.
- Noam Chomsky Archive - Audio lectures and interviews.
- Nobel Prize - Watch/Hear 2006 lectures, includes transcripts.
- Muhammad Yunus - Nobel Lecture, 10 December 2006 (35 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
- Orhan Pamuk - Babamin bavulu (My Father's Suitcase) (39 minutes, in Turkish). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- John C. Mather - From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize: the story of COBE, 8 December 2006 (34 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- George F. Smoot - CMB, COBE and Cosmology, December 8, 2006 (45 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Roger D. Kornberg - The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription, 8 December 2006 (43 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Andrew Z. Fire - Gene Silencing by Double-Stranded RNA, 8 December 2006 (47 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Craig C. Mello - RNAi and Development in C. Elegans, 8 December 2006 (69 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Edmund S. Phelps - My Kind of Macroeconomics: Modern Economies and their Policy Choices, 8 December 2006 (54 minutes). Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. See also Phelps's Prize Commentary by Amar Bhide and Carl Schramm, Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2007.
- Nomad - Digital audio player
- Notable New Yorkers - "Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with ten influential New Yorkers, drawn from the collections of the Oral History Research Office of the Columbia University Libraries. The ten New Yorkers are Bennett Cerf, Kenneth Clark, Mamie Clark, Moe Foner, Andrew Heiskell, Edward I. Koch, Mary Lasker, John B. Oakes, Frances Perkins and Frank Stanton.
- Nova Programs Online - PBS
- NPR Podcast Directory
- 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.
- OCLC Podcasts
- The Hathi Trust and "The Silence of the Archive" - John Price Wilkin, the Executive Director of the Hathi Trust, 29 April 2009.
- Professional Pivot Point: Regaining Relevance in a Rapidly Changing World - Joe Janes, Associate Professior, Information School, University of Washington, 4 December 2008.
- Beyond Brilliant Silos: Video Content, Data Sets, Open Source and Rights Management - Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers University, 6 November 2008.
- Picking Up the Pace: Considering the Implications of Accelerated Archival Processing - Assistant Director for Special Collections & Preservation, University of Chicago Library, 21 August 2008.
- Strategically Embracing Technology to Improve Libraries - MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries, 8 May 2009.
- Why Shouldn't the Library Catalog be an Encyclopedia? - Jenn Riley, Digital Library Program, Indiana University, 11 April 2008.
- Moving Toward the Network Level - Jeremy Frumkin, Head of Emerging Technologies, Oregon State University, 25 January 2008.
- The Value of Physical Artifacts in an Increasingly Virtual World - Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress - 13 January 2008.
- Odeo
- Odyssey - WBEZ Chicago talk program hosted by Gretchen Helfrich
- Official Charts
- Ogg Vorbis - "Open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source."
- 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.
- Old Time Radio
- Ondemand Audio - International public radio programmes in RealAudio and WindowsMedia, organized by country.
- one click - BBC radio show describes itself as "experimenting with music, comedy, movies and speech."
- Online Classics - Classical music, ballet, musicals and theatre.
- Online NewsHour - PBS show with Jim Lehrer. With Site Index. Has RealAudio archive.
- 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.)
- Open Yale Courses
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- Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food - Professor Kelly D. Brownell. "Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2008."
- 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 Akademie Der Wissenschaften Audio Lectures - Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Österreichische Mediathek - Has an audio archive of music, literature (in German).
- Ourmedia - Free storage and free bandwidth for videos, audio files, photos, text or software.
- Outside Magazine: Podcasts - They also have Videos
- OverDrive - "Provides world-class infrastructure for distributing premium digital content. We empower publishers, enterprises, libraries, schools, and retailers to maximize their presences in the digital world by enabling them to securely manage, protect, and lend or sell digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and videos."
- Oxford DNB podcast - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides audio biographies including Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Barbara Cartland, Bunny Roger, Deen Mahomed, Princess Caraboo, Sidney Bloom, Pocahontas, Edith Cavell and Boudicca, queen of the Iceni.
- 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.
- The Black Panther Party - UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project. 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.
- Pandora - Customized radio. Their Music Genome Project captures the "unique and magical musical identity of a song." I put in Kate & Anna McGarrigle and the first results were St. Charlene by Hem & Autumn Defense, Galileo by the Indigo Girls and Hands by Jewel. A similar service is Last.fm. Steve Krause compares the two in Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders.
- Paris Review: Audio
- Agha Shahid Ali - The Purse-Seiner Atlantis, Salon, 2001 [2:58]
- Sarah Arvio - Ellipses, Salon, 2002, [2:00]
- Jim Carroll - Heroin, Salon, 2001, [8:15]
- George Plimpton - Paul Tavilla, SummerStage, 2003 [11:43].
- 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.
- Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) - Johns Hopkins University. There is an Archives. Speakers include Richard Boucher (September 14, 2006), Brian Jenkins (September 11, 2006), Jack Reed (July 31, 2006), William Kristol and Bernard-Henri Lévy (January 24, 2006).
- PennSound - "Committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives."
- Author List
- Singles - "For noncommercial and educational use only."
- 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."
- Phonothèque québécoise - Musée du son - Has Extraits sonores / Sound Clips.
- 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.
- Pitchfork Media - With forkcasts.
- Podcast Alley
- podcasts.culture.ca - Hear:
- Damn This Feeling from Hayden's 2008 album In Field & Town, on Midnight Poutine, November 5, 2008, with playlist.
- Podiobooks - "671 episodes available for download in 42 titles."
- Poem Present: Readings and Lectures - Video archive of readings by Michael Fried, Calvin Bedient, Pierre Joris, Mary Jo Bank, Joanna Klink, Forrest Gander, Jim Powell, Ralph Johnson, Allen Grossman, Tom Pickard, Susan Stewart, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Robert Creeley, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, William Fuller and Mark Strand at the University of Chicago.
- Poems That Go - Edited by Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson.
- Poésie française - Includes 48 RealAudio poems by Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Ronsard, Hugo and others.
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States - Kathie Fraser
- Poetry Archive - Browse poems by poet, title, theme and form. Includes a Children's Poetry Archive.
- The Poet's Voice: A Digital Poetry Collection - Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. From a "group of 3,300 reels of tape a select number of recordings have been digitized and made accessible to the Harvard community and, when copyright restrictions permit, the general public." Readers include: Charles Olson (1962), Adrienne Rich 1951, Robert Lowell 1946, Allen Tate 1971,
- Prairie Home Companion - Provides live netcasts and archived performances.
- Prelinger Archives - Internet Archive.
- This Is Prelinger Archives (2001)
- The Plow That Broke The Plains (Part I) (1936)
- 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. See also Public Lecture Series. See also Public Lectures at Princeton.
- Project Gutenberg - Michael Hart's huge undertaking to digitize public domain texts has a categores for Audio Book, human-read and Audio Book, computer-generated.
- Pseudo 5.0 - Multiple live channels of streaming audio and video.
- Public Radio Exchange - Nonprofit online clearinghouse and community site for audio content.
- 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 for Peace International
- Radio France
- France Culture
- Ecoute a la carte
- Toutes les réalisations Multimedia
- Tous les Podcasts
- Le Reportage Multimedia
- Le Coin de Poètes (Poet's Corner)
- Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - With a 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 Nation
- Radio Netherlands - Has some stories in English.
- 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 Tales
- Radio Telefís Éireann Online (RTE) - Irish national broadcasting organisation provides streaming audio news and music, some in Gaelic. Provides an Audio Downloads Page.
- 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.
- 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.
- Random House Audio
- ReadSpeaker - "Automatic speech enabling of web content." This AudioNews service is currently offered by the International Herald Tribune. Look for the choice "Listen to Article" in the list that include email and print-friendly options. See, for example, Global warming called 'unequivocal' by Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew C. Revkin, February 2, 2007. See Keep up to date with police talking website by Charlotte Bradshaw, Lancashire Telegraph, January 26, 2007. The technology is also used by the Ville de Luxembourg (in French),
- 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.
- Ravinia Festival - Highland Park, Illinois. There is a Listening Room with some of classical music's "greatest hits" (including Giovanni Gabrieli's Canzon per sonare, No. 2).
- Recoreded Books
- 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.
- Reith Lectures - BBC lectures have transcripts, MP3 downloads and audio replay.
- Chinese Vistas
- 2008 theme
- Bursting at the Seams - 2007 theme
- In the Beginning Was Sound - 2006 theme
- The Triumph of Technology - 2005 theme
- Climate of Fear - 2004 theme
- 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.
- Réseau Académique Parisien - Videothèque - Vidéo à la demande.
- Research Channel - Over 3,000 titles available online. "Consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions dedicated to broadening the access to and appreciation of our individual and collective activities, ideas, and opportunities in basic and applied research.One of the major goals of ResearchChannel is to use program content creation and manipulation processes as testing medium for analog and digital broadcast and on-demand multimedia offerings, thus providing an unusual opportunity to experiment with new methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis."
- Rivendell International Communications - Provides links to RealAudio Language Stations.
- ResearchChannel Video Library
- Rice University Live Webcasts & Archives
- 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.
- Rohatyn Center for International Affairs Video Archives - Middlebury College. Lectures include:
- "Fellini Betrayed: The English and Italian Soundtracks of La strada" by Thomas Van Order, March 16, 2007.
- "The New Dream: Updating MLK's Vision" by Van Jones, February 27, 2007.
- "Private Military Contractors and the Challenge of Regulating New Wars" by Kateri Carmola, September 15, 2006.
- 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.
- RTE Radio Ireland - With podcasts. Conversations with Eamon Dunphy guests include:
- Patrick Guilbaud - Restaurateur (1 March 2008)
- John Kelleher - Film and television producer ('Eat the Peach') ( 5 January 2008)
- Lainey Keogh - Fashion designer (20 October 2007)
- Edna O'Brien - Author (22 September 2007)
- 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.
- Saturday Night Live Videos - NBC. You have to watch a short commercial first.
- Savvy Traveler Radio Show - With RealAudio archives of feature stories back to 1997. You'll find interviews with
- W. Hodding Carter
- Paul Theroux
- Dave Brubeck
- Schomburg Center-Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project Clips - With comments by Nat Adderley, Doc Cheatham, Jon Faddis and 18 others.
- Science Friday RealAudio Archives - National Public Radio
- Scientific American Frontier - PBS series hosted by Alan Alda includs webcast of From Mir to Mars.
- Scientific American Podcasts
- For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics - Jeffrey Wells, March 19, 2008.
- Scott Joplin - 100 songs, all within 4 zipped files.
- ScreenSound Australia: National Screen and Sound Archive
- Search Engines and Subject Directories: You can use Google Yahoo to search for terms such as webcast, netcast, audiocast, cybercast, podcast, lecture series, archived audio, archived video, archived lectures, web media, multimedia, audio, audio archive, video archive, on demand, streaming, realaudio, mp3, sdp, etc. To locate university webcasts use this search query: inurl:webcast inurl:.edu. Specialized sites include: AlltheWeb: Audio, AlltheWeb: Video, Alta Vista Video Search, Audiofind: Multimedia Search Engine, Blinkx, CNET Music Center, FindSounds, Lycos Music Downloads, Lycos Multimedia, Open Video Project, Radio Scout, a public radio broadcast search, SingingFish, Songtext, SpeechBot (11/4/05: no longer available), and University Channel.
- 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.
- Senate Republican Conference - Has Radio clips of Republican Senators
- Selected Shorts - WNYR Public Radio show hosted by Isaiah Sheffer “features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading contemporary and classic short fiction-the most distinguished works of the early masters...” including:
- Tennessee, Edna, and Flannery
- Life Story by Tennessee Williams, read by Mia Dillon; Violets by Edna O’Brien, read by Fionnula Flanagan; The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Connor, read by Lois Smith [begins at 27:00]
- Sénat français - Vidéothèque - French Senate.
- 1940-1962: les troubles de la mémoire française - 22 October 2010, Colloque. See programme (pdf). Short video clips from the presentations by Gérard Larcher, Président du Sénat [01:26]; Jean-François Sirinelli, Historien [02:07]; and Jean-Noël Jeanneney - Historien [02:08]
- Senator Joe McCarthy Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
- "35 streaming audio files made from original analog tape recordings in the Joseph R. McCarthy Papers at Marquette University." (Raymor Memorial Libraries)
- Shadow TV - Subscription service.
- Shakuhachi - Site devoted to the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. With audio links.
- Sigur Ros - Band from Iceland. Listen to Mikel Jolet's review on All Things Considered. Download music from Odin's Raven Magic, an icelandic poem in the ancient edda tradition, thought to have been composed in the 14th or 15th century.
- 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
- SnagFilms - See SnagFilms Finds Virtual Theaters For Documentaries by Walter S. Mossberg, Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2008. "These aren't homemade, three-minute YouTube clips. Nearly all are feature-length, professionally produced documentaries, from both small independent filmmakers and well-known sources such as PBS and National Geographic."
- 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.
- SomaFM - "Extremely Independent Internet Radio" based in San Francisco.
- 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.
- SONY Music: Audio/Video
- Sound Portraits - Documentaries produced by MacArthur Fellow David Isay. With Archives back to May 2002.
- 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).
- Soundboard - "Internet's largest collection of audio soundbytes and soundboards."
- Soundcheck - WNCY Radio, 93.9 FM., hosted by John Schaefer. With archives.
- 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.
- South by Southwest Festival - Austin, Texas, annual showcase for independent music. In SXSW Bands you can listen to music by over 900 bands.
- 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 - "Multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States." (American Memory, Library of Congress.)
- Spanish Early Music: Renaissance & Baroque MIDI Files - Sequenced by F. Villanueva. Site maintained with the collaboration of Charles K. Moss.
- Speakeasy - Guests from the world of the arts, sciences, the media, and other areas. Hosted by Dorian Devins (WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1) See also Playlist. There are interviews with Michael Kimmelman (August 29, 2005), art critic at the New York Times and Annette Insdorf (June 27, 2005), Professor of Film in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, discussing Francois Truffaut's classic 1962 film Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim). See also Speakeasy blog
- Speech Accent Archive - "The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set [507] of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers." Steven H. Weinberger, Program in Linguistics, Department of English, George Mason University.
- SpeechBot - Speech search engine currently indexes 15588 hours of audio & video content that is hosted and played from other websites (PBS Online NewsHour, Car Talk Radio Show, Marketplace Radio Business News, Here and Now, On Point, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Soundcheck, the Diane Rehm Show, the Connection, the Leonard Lopate Show, Motley Fool, Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, the Brian Lehrer Show, Only A Game, Scuba Radio, the White House).
- 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.
- Speechbot
- Sporting News Radio
- Sports Illustated: Multimedia
- SRG SSR idée suisse - Swiss Radio
- Standing Committee of European National Audiovisual Archive(SCENAA) - Has a list of Members
- Stanford Archives of Recorded Sound - Provides Sound Bytes from the Archive as well as an excellent collection of links to Related Internet Pages.
- Stanford on iTunes - "Downloads of faculty lectures, campus events, performances, book readings, music recorded by Stanford students and even podcasts of Stanford football games. At launch, the service will contain close to 400 distinct audio programs, and the university will continue to add new content as it becomes available." See Stanford Report, October 20, 2005.
- Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links (in German only). There are lists for MP3 and Texte und Noten
- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Searchable by subject, title, source, copyright, keyword, language, location, event date, and genre.
- 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.
- Streaming Media at the University of Wisconsin - "This site is a resource for faculty and educational technologists interested in using streaming for teaching and learning."
- 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.
- Studio 360 - "PRI's Peabody Award-winning "Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen" from WNYC is public radio's smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts."
- Archives
- Studs Terkel Conversations with America
- Sundance Festival - Held annually in January in Park City, Utah. You can View Films including the twelve minute Death to the Tinman directed by Ray Tintori.
- Sunday Baroque - You can Listen to a continuous audio stream of the four most recent hours of Sunday Baroque and there is a Playlist.
- Swimming with Sharks - CNet's News.com story about streaming media and Microsoft, April 14, 2000.
- Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images (SLBA)
- Swing Radio - 24-7 swing radio network
- Swiss National Sound Archives
- Synchronized Multimedia - W3C Architecture Domain
- Talk Radio Network
- Talking History - Organization of American Historians
- Talking History - Weekly radio program produced by the Department of History at the University of Albany. With audio Archives.
- Talkr - Converts text-only blogs into PodCasts.
- Tate Podcasts
- Bloomberg Tate Shots
- Tate ETC.
- Tate Tracks
- Tate Events
- What Can the Matter Be? A podcast about materials, science and art
- Modern Paint
- Works in Focus
- Young Tate: Raw Canvas
- TED: Ideas worth spreading - See the TEDTalks podcasts (free registration)
- 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."
- Tegan and Sara - Official site of the folksingers (and twin sisters) from Calgary. You can listen to I Know I Know I Know, My Number, Speak Slow, Monday Monday Monday, I Hear Noises, Frozen, My Number, I Wont' be Left, I Can't Take It, Fix You Up, Don't Go Looking, In Your Room. Their newest album So Jealous was described as a "stylish, sonically adventurous record" by a reviewer in LA Weekly.
- 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.
- This I Believe - NPR series is based on a 1950s radio program hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow is described as a "national project that invites you to write about the core beliefs that guide your daily life." Includes Rick Moody on The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading, NPR Morning Edition, August 29, 2005.
- 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 at
CNET Download.com.)
- Times Online Podcasts
- Traditional Catholic MIDI File - Don Wyckoff
- Traneumentary: Celebrating the Artistry & Recordings of John Coltrane - Joseph Vella's documentary includes interviews with musicians and track commentaries. See also Coltrane Documentary Comes Via Podcasts NPR, News & Notes, March 20, 2007. Concord Records released the Coltrane boxed Fearless Leader in 2006. Other Vella projects include An Intimate Tour Through the Music of Yo-Yo Ma (9 episodes) and Pet Sounds at 40: An Appreciation (The Beach Boys available free at iTunes.
- Truman Presidential Museum and Library - Has an audio collection.
- TSR Archives (Les Archives de la TSR) - Genève. Swiss public broadcasting. Has video clips of over 1200 interviews (primarily in French) including:
- Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) - by Jo Excoffier, 30 August 1958 [26:08].
- Federico Fellini (1920-1993) - by François Challet, Gilbert Bovay, 12 June 1960 [4:19] (In French and Italian).
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - by Maurice Huelin, 29 June 1960 [9:32].
- Jean-Paul Belmondo - by Claude Mossé, 1 October 1961 [9:11].
- Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) - by Georges Kleinmann, 20 October 1961 [9:13].
- Joséphine Baker - by Colette Jan, Carrefour, 25 October 1961 [6:24].
- Jacques Prévert (1900-1977) - by Claude Mossé, 29 October 1961 .
[13:19].- Joseph Kessel (1898-1979) - by Benjamin Romieux, 18 January 1962 [14:39].
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982) - by Georges Kleinmann, 19 February 1962 [3:17].
- Alain Tanner (1929- ) - by Rodolphe Arlaud, 17 October 1964 [1:48].
- Agnes Varda - by Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, 23 January 1965 [5:57].
- Jacques Brel (1929-1978) - Carrefour, 20 March 1965 [9:51].
- Le Corbusier (1887-1965) - Words spoken in his memory, 3 September 1965 [32:13].
- François Mitterrand (1916-1996) - 7 October 1965 [11:10].
- Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) - by Georges Kleinmann, 15 November 1965 [35:20].
- Charles Trenet (1913-2001) - by Guy Ackermann, 27 November 1965 [16:49].
- Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) - by Rodolphe-M. Arlaud, 24 May 1966 [4:53].
- Jacques Tati (1907-1982) - French actor and director, also known as Jacques Tatischeff, Carrefour, 29 December 1967 [5:43].
- William Klein (1928-) - by Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, 29 May 1968 [12:12]. Klein is a painter, photographer and director who worked with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le métro..
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) - by Gilbert Schnyder, 9 November 1968 [16:26].
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - by Louis-Albert Zbinden, 30 March 1970 [14:07].
- Ulrich Steiner - by Jean-François Nicod, 16 December 1972 [31:37]. On April 2, 1973, in Mulhouse, Steiner departed in the sailboat he had constructed with the intention of eventually reaching Australia..
- Georges Simenon (1903-1989) - by Catherine Charbon, 10 February 1975 [13:32].
- Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) - by Guy de Belleval, 26 February 1976 [12:12].
- Charles Bukowski - by Claude Torracinta, 23 May 1986 [28:23].
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) - by Christian Defaye, 28 May 1990 [5:27].
- 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.
- Ultimate Band List
- Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision
- United Nations Multimedia - Offers UN Radio News in six languages, (with archive) and Video News. See also United Nations Webcast.
- UNM Live (University of New Mexico)
- 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.
- 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.
- United States Commercial Service: Video Market Reports Library - United States Department of Commerce. See also Market Information Via Webinar
- University Channel - "Collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world." For more on University Channel see University's Wilson School Launches Academic Channel by Candace Braun, Town Topics, August 17, 2005.
- Utah Collections - "Digital video and audio clips, pictures, maps, charts, and transcripts from KUED-TV telecourses and documentaries and KUER-FM radio programs." For more on University Channel see University's Wilson School Launches Academic Channel by Candace Braun, Town Topics, August 17, 2005.
- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - Edward L. Ayers. ""The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive you may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, lefty by men and women in August County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania."
- Vanderbilt University Podcasts
- Victoria and Albert Museum: Videos & Audios
- Video MSN.com - NBC Nightly News Netcasts
- Vimeo
- Vimeo Festival Videos
- 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 française - 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.
- VOAHA: Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive - California State University, Long Beach. Subjects include American Indian Studies, Asian American History, Labor History, Long Beach Area History, Mexican American/Chicano, Musical Developments in Southern California, Southeast Asian Communities, and Women's History (Asian American Women's Movement; Chicana Feminists; Feminist Health Movement; Los Angeles Feminists; Suffragists; Reformers and Radicals; Professionals and Entrepreneurs; Rosie the Riveter Revisited; Welfare Mothers, Welfare Rights, Women's Lives, Women's Work 1900-1960). Some interviews were conducted under the auspices of the Feminist History Research Project. There are online audio files of interviews with the following women:
- Elizabeth Anderson (1892- ) - Interviewed by Allison Knoth.
- Mildred Baer
- Marie Baker
- Rose Bell
- Carmella Messina Billone
- Betty Jeanne Boggs
- Clella Juanita Bowman
- Rose Priola Falk Agnes Budilovsky
- Jesse Haver Butler (1886-1984)
- Toni Carabillo
- Freda Campbell
- Bernadette Carmier
- Victoria Casilles
- Rosalind Cassidy (1895-1980)
- Sylvia Castillo (tape damaged?)
- Katherine Tolls Chamberlain
- Flora Chavez
- Marisela Chavez
- May Ying Chen
- Beatrice Morales Clifton
- Amalia Conray
- Victoria Cook
- Jeanne Cordova
- Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) - Interviewed on 10 October 1972 by Sherna Berger Gluck
- Elizabeth Cuddeback
- Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975)
- Genora (Johnson) Dollinger
- Alma Dotson
- Carol Downer
- Videll Drake
- Louise Emery (1897-1985)
- Ethel Erickson (1897-1985)
- Mildred Eusebio
- Rose Priola Falk
- Maria Fierro
- Bertha Foler
- Lilyan Frank
- Mern Freige
- Nellie Gibson (1897-1989)
- May Goldman
- Sherna Berger Gluck
- Anna Nieto Gomez
- Emma Goodman
- Eliza Harrison
- Rosemary Hays
- Fanny Christina Hill
- Margarite Hoffman
- Mary Holloway (1882-1985)
- Edith Holton
- Josephine Houston
- Vera Hunter
- Mildred Hutchinson (1894-2000)
- Miya Iwataki
- Barbara Kalish
- Sadie Kastleman (1887-1978)
- Ernestine Hara Kettler (1896-1978)
- Dora Stoller Keyser (1899-1983)
- Florence Kushner
- Yetta Land (1887-1986)
- Susan Laughlin
- Bessie Letwin
- Mildred Lightfoot
- Juanita Loveless
- Eva Lowe
- Mary Luna
- Grace McDonald
- Glad McLeod
- Kathleen MacNeil
- Margarita Salazar McSweyn
- Lillian March
- Crystal Marshall
- Belen Martinez Mason,
- Adele Hernandez Milligan
- Gertrude Millikan
- Ruth Mills
- Virginia Reid Moore
- Rose Echeverria Mulligan
- Bette Murphy
- Yolanda Nava
- Barbara Nestor (1884-1979)
- Charlcia Neuman
- Beatrice NeView (1894-1995)
- Consuelo Nieto
- Olive Nordquist
- Priscilla Oaks
- Kathleen O'Hare
- Isabell Orwin
- Mildred Owen (1903-1988)
- Della Pack (1897-1981)
- Zuma Palmer (1897-1991)
- Harriet Perry
- Wanda Phillips (1889-1978)
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979)
- Mary Polliard
- Lupe Purdy
- Zita Donegan Remley (1904-1985)
- Anita Veale Robbins (1897-1979)
- Joan Robins
- Marilyn Robinson
- Nancy (Dara) Robinson
- Genevieve Roesch
- Lorraine Rothman
- Dora Rosenzweig (1885-1984)
- Sarah Rozner
- Corinne Sanchez
- Mamie Santora
- Barbara Sargent (1887-1989)
- Laura Ellsworth Seiler (1891-1982)
- Ethel Bertolini (Shapiro)
- Alicia Shelit
- Lillian Sherman (1894-1983)
- Etta Simmons
- Rose Singleton
- Lottie Lee Spharler
- Lottie (Kaplan) Spitzer
- Addie Stangeland
- Olive Stone (1897-1977)
- Helen Studer
- Marye Stumph (1909-1994)
- Minnie Roth Tenebaum
- Sylvie Thygeson (1868-1975)
- Johnnie Tillmon
- Charlotte Stern (Todes) (1897-1996)
- Eva Marshall Totah (1895-1990)
- Bessie Udin
- Vi (Violet) Verreaux
- Margaret White
- Evelyn Widdicombe
- Evelyn Yoshimura
- Sofia Zamora
- Voice of America
- VoicePrint - Free 24-hour news and information audio service from Canada. "Every dayvolunteers 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 Days of Slavery: Audio Interviews - Library of Congress American Memory Collection. There is a three-part interview of Wallace Quarterman in June 1935 by John Lomax, Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle.
- 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 Post Radio - Local, national and international news and commentary. See The Sound of A Newspaper: Post Radio Hits the Air by Paul Farhi, Washington Post, March 31, 2006.
- Washington State University Extension - Videos for distance learning in many subjects, including Digital Libraries broadcast on March 16, 2005. Guests include: David Seaman, Director of the Digital Library Federation; Peter Young, director of the National Agricultural Library and Ginny Steele, director of libraries for Washington State University. Produced in cooperation with American Distance Education Consortium.
- Wall Street Journal Video
- Washington Week - With searchable video database.
- Waterbug Records - Music samples, in WAV format, of "intelligent folk cds."
- WDR Radio - Germany. See WebMedia which has WDR Radio Livestreams. and Funkhaus Europa.
- 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.
- Webcast Berkeley - Archives webcasts of events and courses. There's also a Lecture Video Search. Some hightlights:
- Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Dr. Paul Farmer - March 17, 2009. Pfizer "Moments in Leadership" Distinguished Health Leadership Speaker Series.
- Story Hour in the Library - Michael Chabon - September 18, 2008
- WebCast Live and On-Demand Streaming Media - UCLA Office of Instructional Development. Lectures include Moche Portraits From Ancient Peru by Christopher B. Donnan, April 3, 2003 and Celebration of 50 Years of Distinction and the Dedication of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, with a keynote address by Leon Panetta, January 22, 2000.
- Westminster Abbey - Hear the Bells
- WGBH Forum Network - "Audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders."
- 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).
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Has archived webcasts. See Events and Dialogue which has Dialogue Program Index.
- Wordsworthy - Audio publication of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. See also Library Services
- World Bank BSpan
- World Cafe - "Since 1991, World Cafe has showcased contemporary music, serving up an eclectic blend of blues, rock, folk and alternative country. David Dye hosts the program from member station WXPN in Philadelphia. Each show centers on David's "performance chat" with a featured artist or band."
- 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.
- WOXY - Web Radio station
- WPSI Art Radio - "Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings and a free on-demand archive of over 500 programs." With schedule.
- Writer's Almanac - Daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor on Minnesota Public Radio. With archives.
- WRVO - Listen live to WRVO Playhouse. (Radio Mystery Theater is at 9:00 p.m.)
- Yahoo! Launchcast - There's also Yahoo Music
- Yale Center for the Study of Globalization - YaleGlobal Online "offers a selection of audio-visual presentations by speakers hosted at Yale by the Center for the Study of Globalization." Among the videos are interviews with Mohamed ElBaradei (1 November 2006), N.R. Narayana Murthy and Thomas L. Friedman (22 February 2006 and 15 April 2005).
- Yale University Audio Archive
- YouTube - Website introduced in December 2005. Ken Tucker talks about YouTube in Now, Video Resurrects the Radio Star, Fresh Air from WHYY, February 15, 2006. He mentions a clip of Wilson Pickett singing Midnight Hour. Try a search for Hard Times (Come Again No More) with Rufus Wainwright, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt and Joan Baez in 1958 singing The Riddle Song (How can there be a cherry that has no stone?).
- Zemerl: Jewish Song Database - 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.