After coming up short with its attempts at an online audio library with Google Music in 2011, the Larry Page-led company does not want to fall behind again in the musical arms race.
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Totaling in excess of 5, 000 linear feet, UMG's gift is the largest single donation ever received by the Library's audio-visual division and the first major collection of studio master materials ever obtained by the nation's oldest cultural institution.
In the center console is the very appealing touch-screen navigation and audio controller, which will synch up with your phone and play your music library wirelessly through the bright, fearsome Fender audio system.
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Also, as a holiday gift, Animoog V2 features a powerful 4 Track Recorder, which gives Animoog users the ability to record audio from within Animoog or import audio tracks directly from their iTunes library.
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The Universal Music Collection, which consists of the company's best existing copies, will be cataloged and digitized at the Library's Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va.
"With Amazon Cloud Player, Roku customers have the ability to directly access their music collection, including any music purchased from Amazon's library of more than 22 million audio tracks, on their TVs, " said Ed Lee, Vice President of Content Acquisition at Roku.
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Kennedy Presidential Library has archival video footage, documents, audio clips, and fresh interviews.
Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.
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An on-line library is being developed, which will include video and audio clips of presentations for AWARes by leading figures within the autism world.
This is the kind of impact the library was looking to preserve, "to celebrate the richness and variety of our audio heritage, " said Librarian of Congress James Billington in announcing the selections.
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