Archive of Home Recordings

home recordings accidentally shared to Napster

David Dixon's amazing audio archive website has links to audio files that people recorded at home and unwittingly sent to Napster.

I've amassed many, many hours of these recordings, which provide endless voyeuristic entertainment. Typical recordings were of people singing, rapping, or playing along with the radio (often badly), kids practicing their school book reports, audio love letters, kids being silly, and so forth. One of my finds was a 14-minute-long recording of a guy praying very fervently and emotionally, even lapsing into glossolalia. I've posted many of my favorites on my webpage, for free.

Read Audio Voyeurism. 

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Reminds me if that time when we searched for the first images people took with their new cameras by using 'DSC0001.JPG' as the criteria. Interesting peeks into private lives.

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