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===Audio=== ===={{anchor|aa}}Audio Archive====<!---redirect targets this anchor (aa).---> The [[Sound archive|Audio Archive]] includes music, [[audiobook]]s, news broadcasts, [[Golden Age of Radio|old time radio]] shows, [[podcasts]], and a wide variety of other audio files. {{As of|2023|January}}, there are more than 15,000,000 free [[digital recording]]s in the collection. The subcollections include audio books and poetry, podcasts, non-English audio, and many others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Download & Streaming : Audio Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/audio |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190205122014/https://archive.org/details/audio |archive-date=5 February 2019 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Internet Archive |language=en}}</ref> The sound collections are curated by [[B. George]], director of the [[ARChive of Contemporary Music]].<ref name="WP">{{cite web|last1=Pritchard|first1=Will|title=How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity|url=https://thevinylfactory.com/features/great-78-project-archive-interview/|website=The Vinyl Factory|access-date=November 2, 2017|date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107004227/https://thevinylfactory.com/features/great-78-project-archive-interview/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> ====Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications==== A project to preserve recordings of amateur radio transmissions, with funding from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Kris |date=2022-10-05 |title=The Internet Archive is building a library of amateur radio broadcasts |url=https://www.engadget.com/internet-archive-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications-180509856.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Engadget |language=en-US |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009003206/https://www.engadget.com/internet-archive-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications-180509856.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-27 |title=Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Continue |url=http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-digital-communications-grants-continue |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=American Radio Relay League |language=en |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009003212/http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-digital-communications-grants-continue |url-status=live }}</ref> ====Live Music Archive==== {{main|Live Music Archive}} The [[Live Music Archive]] sub-collection includes more than 170,000 concert recordings from independent musicians, as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts, such as the [[Grateful Dead]], and more recently, [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]. Also, [[Jordan Zevon]] has allowed the Internet Archive to host a definitive collection of his father [[Warren Zevon]]'s concert recordings. The Zevon collection ranges from 1976 to 2001 and contains 126 concerts including 1,137 songs.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tirpack |first=Alex |title=Warren Zevon live shows hit the web, possible film in the works |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warren-zevon-live-shows-hit-the-web-possible-film-in-the-works-20090603 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 3, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202232253/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warren-zevon-live-shows-hit-the-web-possible-film-in-the-works-20090603 |archive-date=February 2, 2013 }}</ref> ====The Great 78 Project==== {{main|The Great 78 Project}} [[The Great 78 Project]] aims to digitize 250,000 [[78 rpm|78 rpm]] singles (500,000 songs) from the period between 1880 and 1960, donated by various collectors and institutions. It has been developed in collaboration with the Archive of Contemporary Music and George Blood Audio, responsible for the audio digitization.<ref name="WP" /> ==== Netlabels ====<!-- Please do not rename without amending redirect at [[Netlabels]]--> {{distinguish|Netlabel}} The Archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its ''Netlabels'' service. The music in this collection generally has Creative Commons-license catalogs of virtual record labels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Netlabels |url=https://archive.org/details/netlabels |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404162519/https://archive.org/details/netlabels |archive-date=April 4, 2014 |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name="lifehacker free music">{{cite web|url=http://lifehacker.com/208221/download-free-music-at-the-internet-archive |title=Download free music at the Internet Archive |work=[[Lifehacker]] |date=October 21, 2006 |first=Wendy |last=Boswell |quote=The Internet Archive has a ginormous collection of free, downloadable music in their NetLabels category ...|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505115952/http://lifehacker.com/208221/download-free-music-at-the-internet-archive |archive-date=May 5, 2012 }}</ref>
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