Category Archives: Audio Archive

Experimenting with One Million Album Covers

Posted on July 1, 2015 by brewster

Rising to the challenge to create an image search engine using a corpus of one million album covers,? Professor Trenary of Western Michigan University lead a class project that found many exact matches (same file) and many near matches. Their … Continue reading →

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The first Netlabel Day – Join the event

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Jeff Kaplan

The Internet Archive has a large (over 58,000 items) and growing collection of netlabels. Recently we received a message asking to help announce a new global event, Netlabels Day. Please support it if you are part of the netlabels world. … Continue reading →

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archive.org download counts of collections of items updates and fixes

Posted on January 26, 2015 by traceypooh

Every month, we look over the total download counts for all public items at archive.org. ?We sum item counts into their collections. ?At year end 2014, we found various source reliability issues, as well as overcounting for “top collections” and … Continue reading →

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Music Analysis Beginnings

Posted on November 18, 2014 by brewster

As mentioned in?our recent?Building Music Libraries post, we are working with researchers at Columbia University and UPF in Barcelona to run their code on the music collection to help their research and to provide new analyses that could help with … Continue reading →

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Create playlists with CratePlayer

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Alexis Rossi

I find great stuff on the Internet Archive all the time, and now I can use a tool called CratePlayer to create playlists from archive.org movie and audio files. ?For example, I want to play a bunch of old Christmas … Continue reading →

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Over 7,000 Free Audio Books: Librivox and its New Look!

Posted on September 26, 2013 by internetarchive

In 2005, Hugh McGuire asked: “Can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to help bring books in the public domain to life through podcasting?” The answer is yes. Thanks to the help of many, LibriVox, the nonprofit organization he … Continue reading →

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new video and audio player — video multiple qualities, related videos, and more!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by traceypooh

Many of you have already noticed that since the New Year, we have migrated our new “beta” player to be the primary/default player, then to be the only player. We are excited about this new player! It features the very … Continue reading →

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getting only certain formats in .zip files from items — new feature

Posted on October 30, 2012 by traceypooh

Per some requests from our friends in the Live Music Archive community… You can get any archive.org item downloaded to your local machine as a .zip file (that we’ve been doing for 5+ years!) But whereas before it would be … Continue reading →

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LibriVox Free Audiobook Project Receives Generous Mellon Support for Upgrade

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Jeff Kaplan

LibriVox.org, the world’s largest producer of free public domain audiobooks, and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, on the heels of a recent landmark achievement: 100 million downloads of the … Continue reading →

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Archive-It Team Encourages Your Contributions To The “Occupy Movement” Collection

Posted on December 7, 2011 by internetarchive

Since September 17th, 2011 when protesters descended on Wall Street, set up tents, and refused to move until their voices were heard, an impassioned plea for economic and social equality has manifested itself in similar protests and demonstrations around the … Continue reading →

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new audio/video player — safari/IE improvements

Posted on June 25, 2011 by traceypooh

below the current audio/video player on archive.org you have probably seen by now the link: Would you like to try our new audio/video player??(beta!) We had some known problems in this beta rollout that affected audio MP3 playback. Specifically, on … Continue reading →

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Jules Verne

Posted on February 8, 2011 by internetarchive

A colleague here at Internet Archive suggested that I post on the birthday of the French author Jules Verne.? He wrote about space, air and underwater travel before practical means of those types of travel had been invented. He is … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted on January 17, 2011 by internetarchive

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day I found a number of items of interest. I’ve included some descriptions written by the uploaders. “I Have A Dream” speech from August 28, 1963 Often referred to as one of the greatest … Continue reading →

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Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Print-Disabled

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Grace Neveu

Associated Press Story The books on our Open Library site. Press release: More than doubling the number of books available to print disabled people of all ages, today the Internet Archive launched a new service that brings free access to … Continue reading →

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New Support for HTML5 audio tag!

Posted on July 9, 2010 by internetarchive

We just rolled out the tag support option for our audio files (which is similar to our tag support that we have had as an option for a bit). So patrons can now opt to not use our flash plugin … Continue reading →

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October 1962…Camelot in Crisis

Posted on July 6, 2010 by internetarchive

Being a fan of MadMen and also being old enough to have experienced “duck and cover”, these recordings are just a revelation: http://www.archive.org/details/dictabelt_cassette_a http://www.archive.org/details/dictabelt_cassette_b There’s the Mississippi University Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hey, there’s Bobby Kennedy, then the … Continue reading →

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An Old-fashioned Book Drive! Please help make the Open Library Book collection even bigger.

Posted on May 10, 2010 by internetarchive

From Open Library: The Internet Archive has been scanning books for some years now, and we’re always looking for more. In addition to 1,000,000+ eBooks available to anyone available through Open Library, we’ve announced the release of modern books for … Continue reading →

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St. Patrick's Day at the Archive

Posted on March 17, 2010 by internetarchive

Let’s see what we’ve got for St. Patrick’s Day on the servers….. Newsreel of the huge parade in New York City in 1939 (with some other interesting news of the day). A tune featuring bagpipe and fiddle A breathtaking image … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive Free Music widget is back

Posted on March 16, 2010 by internetarchive

After a brief hiatus the Internet Archive Free Music widget is back. Below is an image that is linked to widgetbox.com where you can get it. It has a continuous RSS feed of new live music as it arrives. And … Continue reading →

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Economic Crisis and the President's Response

Posted on March 12, 2010 by internetarchive

On today’s date in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio “fireside chats,” telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation’s economic crisis. Searching the Internet archive I found an audio file in … Continue reading →

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