Audio Search

Audio Search Engines

• Yahoo Audio Search: Yahoo's Audio search is fantastic, in my personal opinion. You can search for music, interviews, speeches, newscasts, podcasts, sound effects, and more.
• BlogDigger:a search engine for both audio and video content that is hosted at other sources.
• SingingFish: Search for audio files in a variety of formats, including MP3's or by categories (news, sports, entertainment, etc.).
• Lycos Multimedia Search: Click the radio button for "audio" and go to town. Includes a family friendly filter.
• AltaVista Audio Search: Allows searches in a variety of audio formats, but I especially like that you can choose how long you want the sample file to be at the "duration" pull-down menu.
• FindSounds:Searches the Web for sound effects (think screams, hoofbeats, etc.) or musical instrument samples. Make sure to check out the Types page to get a really good idea of what you can find.
• Podscope: A podcast-specific search engine. You can learn more about Podscope in my Podscope profile.
• ez2Find: Specialized search engine that helps you find bands, artists, MP3's, lyrics, or MIDI files.
• Blinkx: Blinkx TV is basically a search engine that allows you to search for audio and video clips not only using keywords and phrases, but also content in the actual clips that you're looking for.
• Loomia: Loomia is a relatively smallish audio and video search engine that focuses mostly on podcasts and videos.

Audio Search Directories

• AudioFind:From the site description: "Searchable MP3 directory with thousands of files. Browse alphabetically by filename, master artist, or date."
• Open Directory Audio: Points to a wide selection of audio links.
• Salon.com Audio Directory: alphabetically organized; all audio features offered at Salon.

Specialized Audio-Specific Sites

• The Quiet American: Take a one-minute vacation right at your desk with these sixty-second audio recordings from all over the world.
• The Free Information Society: historical sounds of the twentieth century in audio format.
• NASA Space Mission Audio: Use the drop down menus to the left of the page to find audio from the NASA space mission flights.
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Audio: "pointers to information on computer-based audio sound and associated software available around the world on the World Wide Web."
• Internet Archive Audio Archive: a ton of great audio content is available here. Frequently updated.
• The History Channel - Famous Speeches: Listen to over 500 famous speeches that have made history.
• SermonAudio: "largest and fastest-growing library of audio sermons on the web with over 90,700 free audio sermons."

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