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Last checked 11/3/2007
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- Microsoft's Media Player Download is free.
- RealPlayer is free. This is the non-blotted version found on the BBC site.
- Media Jukebox is a free, do-it-all audio player and recorder.
- Media Jukebox Wiki has a lot of good help for using Media Jukebox.
- BookRadio uses RealAudio to supply interviews of authors, or books read by their authors. Interesting idea.
- Audio File Magazine has reviews of recorded books as well as narrators.
- Car Talk has searchable directory of recorded Click and Clack radio shows as well as Car Talk newspaper articles.
- Whoopie
 is a searchable index of audio and video sites including links to movie trailers, movie clips, great music links, etc. This site may be folding as I have had trouble getting into lately.
- WavList has a collection of TV and movie sound clips.
- WavSource has a variety of sound clips from movies, TV, speeches, etc.
- WindowsMedia is sponsored by Microsoft and has a lot of links to audio and video material.
- The America Project is mostly NPR archive radio shows that are so mesmerizing and unusual that you may find that you can't break away.
- Movie Sounds has many sound clips from movies.
- Historical Speeches Archive and other sound clips.
- US History Out Loud Includes RealAudio versions of telephone conversations of President Lyndon Johnson, recorded on May 27, 1964. Recently released by the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, three of the four recordings concern LBJ's misgivings about American involvement in the conflict in Vietnam. The conversations are between Johnson and Adlai Stevenson, McGeorge Bundy, Richard Russell, and George Reedy, and illustrate just how torn the president and some of his advisors were over escalating the war, just a few months before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that marked the beginning of that escalation. The site also has recordings of speeches made by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Clinton.
- TinFoil has samples of ancient tin and wax recordings.
- Live Radio on the Internet stations from around the world. You need Real Audio.
- Live Radio in Pennsylvania - is a list of PA radio stations that stream content over the Internet.
- WaveCentral gives you free WAV files.
- Answering Machine gives you sound clips you can use on your answering machine.
- Sounddog - various sound recordings and short phrases - mp3 format.
- MP3
- Daily WAV has a WAV recording for each day. Mostly a snippet from a TV show or movie.
- Bell Labs Text-to-Speech You enter text and select the style of the voice and it creates a file for you with the phrase in spoken form.
- Audio Review - audio reviews including home theatre, car audio, stereo, etc - includes a bulletin board service and chat room.
- Audio/Visual Science Forum - is a heavy traffic forum for audio/visual stuff including high-def, DVD, CD, etc.
- Real Music Guide requires the Real player.
- Eminent Technology's Multimedia Speaker test
 Tests your audio system for phasing and frequency response.
- Sound and Vision has reviews of audio equipment.
- Lost and Found Sounds is a collection of sounds of the century. An African woman sings a lullaby. William Rathvon tells of hearing the Gettysburg Address when he was 8 years old. Some good stuff but rather skimpy.
- Save Our Sounds is a joint project of the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. It is an archive of sounds, speeches, songs, etc. some dating back before 1900.
- Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machines has streaming audio of old 78 lp's (those were 78 revolution-per-minute, 'long playing', vinyl records, for those of us who grew up before the Beatles - who were a group of four musicians ... ).
- Sound Portraits has a collection of interviews with crusty folks. Very interesting documentary stuff.
- Internet Museum of Flexi-records Are you old enough to remember the plastic records that you got for free in cereal boxes and magazines? Well, there here and you can listen to them.
- McFadden's CD, CD-R, CD-RW FAQ has good info on the difference between CD-R and CD-RW, differences in blank CD's, etc.
- Roxio CD Info has information on use CD-R and CD-RW drives. Sponored by Adaptec so it is somewhat self-serving but there is some good stuff here if you dig.
- Superaudio-CD has info on the SACD technology including a list of releases.
- High Fidelity Review has info on the SACD and DVD-A technology including a list of releases plus plenty of reviews.
- SACDInfo.com has a list of releases plus plenty of reviews.
- ecoustics has info on home electronics, mostly hi-fi stuff. Very large collection of links to sites related to CD, DVD, audio, TV, etc.
- ecoustics DVD Reviews has a long list of DVD reviews sorted by year.
- DVD Buying Guide has much info on buying DVD machines.
- CNet's DVD Guide
- DVD FAQ as good as McFadden's CD FAQ
- National Recording Preservation Board has 50 memorable selections ranging from poetry to rap.
- Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center has an archive of sounds from motion pictures, broadcasts, and other recorded sources.
- Film Sound is about movie sounds and how they are made.
- StreamSearch helps you find MP3, WAV, etc. files. Also searches for video streams.
- Find Sounds searches for recordings of sound effects and other short audio files.
- I Love WAVs Happy Birthday Collection
 - a million and one wav recordings of the Happy Birthday tune.
- SoundSnap - free sound effects.
- Global Music Network has recorded performances available for viewing or download, mostly jazz and classical.
- Audio CNet Listen to technical gossip on CNet.
- One Minute Vacation has a collection of 60 second sound segments from various parts of the world.
- AVS Forum has info on audio visual equipment like TIVO, DVD, etc.
- MetaCritic gathers reviews of movies, DVD's, music, games, etc. , and consolidates them into a one stop source.
- The ecoustics - reviews of electronic equipment including car and home audio, video, some computers and peripherals
- The Miserable Melodies Pat Boone does 'Smoke on the Water'. 'Nough said.
- The Hall of Shame - bad, bad covers - Andy Griffith does House of the Rising Sun, Joel Grey does White Room. Really.
- The Tinfoil.com - early sound recordings - very early
- Yahoo Search is one of the few search engines that can look for audio files.
- The Penn Jillette - Free FM - short downloads and a live broadcast.
- The Conversation Net - podcasts of conversations with famous or infamous folks.
- The Podzinger is a podcast search engine that uses voice-to-text technology to index the casts.
- The Podcast Alley - has information about podcasting as well as downloadable material.
- The Podcast Software
- The FreeSound is a collection of recordings (environmental sounds, animal vocalizations, etc) that are linked to geographical locations on a Google map.
- The Odeo is a collection of podcasts.
- The Internet Archive Live- recordings of live musical events - most by bands you never heard of but excellent quality.
- The Internet Archive 78 RPM - collects old 78 rpm recordings that you can listen to.
- The Edgen Animations - cool visuals and cool electronic music.
- Comcast Cable Forums
- How to Rip CD's into MP3's using Audacity, iTunes, Media Player, and Real Player.
- Last.fm requires their own player software. The site asks for your favorite artist and they suggest others that you might want to listen to.
- Free Music Rippers and Converters
- Free Sound Project is a collection of free sound snippets
- Audio Extracter has free software that extracts and saves the audio portion of a variety of audio and video formatted files.
- How to Transfer Cassette Tapes to Computer
- RealAudio software is very easy to install on your PC. It allows you to hear audio in real time; you do not have to download an audio file and play it later as is the case with Quicktime movies. When you have the software loaded, your browser will automatically engage the RealAudio player whenever you select a RealAudio file from a Web page. The quality of sound is primitive but voices are understandable.
- RealGuide has an assortment of material for Real Audio.
- RealAudio Support
- AudioSelect by CNN, has a variety of audio news shows, 24 hours a day.
- TinFoil is dedicated to preserving the sounds of early wax recordings from around the turn of the century.
- PMP Network has interviews with stars of various media: Mitch Ryder (Detroit Wheels), Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders), Peter Funt (Candid Camera), etc.
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