Freesound
freesound.org
Half a million Creative Commons sound samples, searchable by how they sound
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odeo.com
A podcast directory and recorder, back when podcasts needed a directory.
Use SomaFM instead
Forty-odd human-curated, ad-free radio channels running since the dotcom era. It is broadcast radio — no on-demand track selection, no rewind, and periodic on-air fundraising drives.
Open SomaFMOdeo let you find, subscribe to and record podcasts from a browser in 2005. Apple adding podcasts to iTunes removed its reason to exist almost overnight; the team pivoted to a side project called Twitter and sold Odeo off. The domain now serves an unrelated gambling site, which is its own kind of ending.
Questions
No. Odeo is no longer running and odeo.com does not serve the tool any more. SomaFM is the closest current equivalent — it forty-odd human-curated, ad-free radio channels running since the dotcom era.
Yes. Odeo sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
Sold in 2007 and long defunct; the domain now redirects to an unrelated gambling site.
Alternatives
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freesound.org
Half a million Creative Commons sound samples, searchable by how they sound
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imslp.org
Free scanned sheet music for almost the entire classical repertoire
metronomeonline.com
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