Category Archives: Music

30 Days of Stuff

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of the vast stacks of content that the Internet Archive makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Cool items, Emulation, Image Archive, Movie Archive, Music, Software Archive, Video Archive, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 8 Comments

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 →

Posted in 78rpm, Announcements, Audio Archive, Music | 3 Comments

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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The New Memory Palace

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Caitlin Olson

By Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky      “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing’s biopic, The Imitation Game, 2014 A lot of things … Continue reading →

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Rock Against the TPP is Coming to San Francisco…TOMORROW!

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Lila Bailey

On Friday, September 9th hip hop icons Dead Prez, actress Evangeline Lilly, punk legend Jello Biafra, Grammy winners La Santa Cecilia, and others will play a free concert at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership … 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 →

Posted in 78rpm, Announcements, Audio Archive, Music | 8 Comments

Microphone Check: Thousands of Hip-Hop Mixtapes at the Archive

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Jason Scott

The Internet Archive has been growing an interesting sub-collection of music for the past few months: Hip-Hop Mixtapes. The resulting collection still has a way to go before it’s anywhere near what is out there (limited by bandwidth and a few other … 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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Using Docker to Encapsulate Complicated Program is Successful

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Brewster Kahle

The Internet Archive has been using docker in a useful way that is a bit out of the mainstream: to package a command-line binary and its dependencies so we can deploy it on a cluster and use it in the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Technical | 3 Comments