Category Archives: Audio Archive

Dreaming of Semantic Audio Restoration at a Massive Scale

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Brewster Kahle

I believe we can do a fabulous job of bringing the music from the 78rpm era back to vibrant life if we really understand wear and if we could model the instruments and voices. In other words, I believe we … Continue reading →

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Listening to the 78rpm Disc Collection

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Jessica Thompson

By Jessica Thompson, Coast Mastering The Great 78 Project A few times a year, I join B. George in the Internet Archives’ warehouses to help sort and pack 78rpm discs to ship to George Blood L.P. for digitization. As a … Continue reading →

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Saving the 78s

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Caitlin Olson

Written by B. George, the Director of ARChive of Contemporary Music in NYC, and Curator of Sound Collections at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. While audio CDs whiz by at about 500 revolutions per minute, the earliest flat disks … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with One Million Album Covers

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Brewster Kahle

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 Kahle

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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Archive of Contemporary Music and the Internet Archive Team up to Create a Music Library

Posted on October 28, 2014 by jeff kaplan

When the personal record collection of music producer Bob George hit 47,000 discs, he knew something had to be done.  “I wanted to give them away, but they were mostly punk, reggae and hip-hop,” he recalled, “and no established library … 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 jeff kaplan

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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