# Sound Archives

> Discover vintage music and historic audio with original-source links and rights context.

780 catalog recordings and excerpts. Audio remains hosted by original archives. No login is needed to listen; bookmarks and playback position stay in the browser.

## Browse
- [Home](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/)
- [Explore](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/explore)
- [National Jukebox](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/library-of-congress-national-jukebox): Full-length early recordings from the Library of Congress National Jukebox, selected from its official 100-recording sample dataset.
- [Open Music Archive](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/open-music-archive): A collaborative archive digitising and sharing out-of-copyright sound recordings.
- [National Jukebox: Jazz](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/national-jukebox-jazz): Jazz, ragtime, and roots-of-jazz excerpts from the Library of Congress National Jukebox.
- [Jazz Classics](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/jazz-classics): A community-audio compilation of jazz recordings hosted by the Internet Archive.
- [Free 20s Jazz Collection](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/free-20s-jazz): A Gathacol Radio collection of 1920s jazz recordings shared through the Internet Archive.
- [First Sounds](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/first-sounds): Humanity’s earliest playable recordings, recovered from experimental inscriptions made before the phonograph era.
- [UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/archives/ucsb-cylinder-audio-archive): Expert-curated recordings from the first years of the commercial cylinder, selected from UCSB’s Recorded Incunabula programs.

## Data and interpretation
- [Catalog JSON](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/data/tracks.json): IDs, title, artist, source, collection, date, duration, original page, audio URL, and source metadata in info.
- [Sitemap](https://sound-archives.vercel.app/sitemap.xml)

Rights vary by recording and jurisdiction. Verify the original archive record before reuse; inclusion is not a blanket copyright-free guarantee.
Do not treat composition, performance, recording, and digitization rights as interchangeable. The site is a discovery interface, not the original archive or legal advice. Saved tracks are private, not a public collection. Archive submissions create private review issues and are not automatically added.