EarthStation1 WAV site
Looking for the opening theme to "The Andy Griffith Show"? How about a World War II broadcast from Winston Churchill? You'll find all that and more here. This site offers an impressive collection of WAV files from many genres. Categories include cinema, radio themes, TV sounds, historical sounds, World War II sounds, various sound effects, weirdness, space sounds and much more.
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MIDI Explorer Search Engine
Are you trying to locate a particular MIDI file quickly? This speedy search engine is the place to go. MIDI Explorer indexes nearly 2 million MIDI sound files on over 200,000 pages by file and link name. This dictionary-style search engine will show you all of the different versions of a MIDI and can quickly locate rare songs.
- MIDI Explorer has added new features recently. For example, if you have questions about a particular file, you may enter its exact length and find out what others have to say about it.
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A1 Free Sound Effects
This fun resource serves up over 700 free WAV sound effects that include everything from breaking glass to creaking doors to sirens to crackling thunder. The site also accepts requests, if there's a particular sound effect you're looking for.
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The Answering Machine
(Note: this site is no longer free). This clever site offers a large collection of cool WAV sound files that you can use to liven up your phone's answering machine. Surprise and amuse your callers with famous personalities responding to their calls! From Humphrey Bogart to Hannibal Lecter, you'll find a message here that suits your tastes. Categories include movies, TV, comedy, weird, musicals and more. The files are also available in MP3 format.
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Clay's Sound Emporium
There's lot of WAV files here from various TV shows and movies. Categories include: "The Simpsons," "The Atomic Cafe," oddities, "Pulp Fiction," "The Wizard of Oz," funny stuff, and more. And if you're fed up with the lame sound that your E-mail program emits to tell you that you've got new mail, you'll appreciate the "Mail Call" section here that features lots of cool sounds specifically for that purpose. There's also a section on "How to Make Your Own WAVs."
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Audiogalaxy
In the aftermath of Napster's legal woes, a lot of music seekers have been migrating to Audiogalaxy, a searchable resource for free MP3s. Music categories here include rock, alternative, metal, blues, folk, jazz, rap and country. Audiogalaxy also offers 25 megs of free Web space to musicians, so that they can post their MP3s, band information and images here.
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MP3Nut
A fine resource for music seekers, this searchable site offers a large, categorized MP3 sound file section, as well as a comprehensive lyrics archive. MP3s here range from classic tunes to the latest Top 40 hits. There's even a small, but growing, guitar tabs archive here. A big plus to this site is that, (unlike most MP3 sites), you don't get bombarded by annoying popup ads.
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Free Audio Recorder
Free Audio Recorder is an easy to use free software that enables you to record any sound you can hear on your computer, from internet radio stations to streaming music. You can set the recording audio quality, from a low quality up to CD quality.
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Anvil Studio
This is a free Windows program for recording, playing, composing and editing MIDI music using and sampled percussion sounds. Anvil features many effects, such as delay, pitch change, volume and filtering. You can also compose rhythm tracks with your own sampled percussion sounds. An essential sound program if you want to work with MIDI sound files. Here's a screen shot. (For Windows).
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Nullsoft Winamp
The Web's most popular MP3 sound file player, Winamp, is now freeware (previously, it required a registration fee). Winamp is a flexible, high-fidelity sound file player that supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, MOD, WAV and other formats. There are endless ways to customize this player via skins (which change the appearance of the interface), as well as audio effect plugins of various sorts. (For Windows).
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