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Let’s check out the features and benefits of the site Internet Music store and measure it up with our music download program, Audials.


Archive.org (Internet Music Archive) at a Glance:


Archive.org is one of the most popular digital libraries based in San Francisco, CA. It offers free and unlimited access to compilation of digitized objects that includes music, movies, games, and applications, videos, moving images, old time radio shows and books. The music library available at Archive.org has around 0.3 million tracks. There is no subscription fee and the downloading/ streaming of tracks is absolutely free. The audio quality of the tracks varies as per the quality uploaded on the site. Archive.Org is available for access from anywhere around the world.


Features of Archive.Org Internet Live Music Archive:


  • Archive.org offers free music, games, movies, videos, moving images, old time radio shows, live music concerts and books. It supports the standard desktop and other popular device formats.
  • Archive.org provides access to some of the oldest and rarest music videos, live music concerts, moving images, movies and books which were digitized and uploaded for public usage.
  • The tracks available for downloading/ streaming are of varied audio quality.
  • The tracks can be picked and sorted by number of views, title of track, date (archived/ published/ reviewed), and name of the creator.
  • Archive.org aims at “Universal access to all knowledge”. It allows users to upload as well as download/stream digitized matter including music, movies, games, books, etc. for free. No subscription fee is required.
  • Archive.org provides access to some of the oldest and rarest music videos, live music concerts, moving images, movies and books which were digitized and uploaded for public usage.


Benefits with Internet Music Archive Store:


  • Unlimited access to a music library of 0.3 million songs is made available to the user without any monthly subscription fee and absolutely free.
  • Archive.org allows picking and sorting tracks via number of views, title of track, date (archived/ published/ reviewed), and name of the creator.
  • The audio library of Archive.org includes few of the old or rare music, audio books, old time radio shows, news broadcasts and podcasts. The live music collection includes about 100,000 concert recordings by celebrated or autonomous artists.
  • No monthly subscription fee.
  • The individual tracks are free to download.


Limitations of Internet Archive Store:


  • Archive.org has a limited collection of tracks.
  • The audio quality of the tracks cannot be controlled.
  • The activity of managing and controlling the order of playlist according to the user’s interests is not very user friendly.


Compare Archive.org with Audials:


  • Audials has around 10 million music tracks in its store. Also, it can extract 12 billion media files from online video sources. On the other hand, Archive.org has 0.3 million tracks in its store.
  • Audials offers access to songs, videos, movies, TV shows and games, whereas, Archive.org offers access to music, videos, movies, games, images, cartoons, radio shows, live music concerts, news broadcasts, podcasts, books etc.
  • All music tracks are free to download in Audials so is with Archive.org.
  • Audials is accessible from everywhere all over the world same as Archive.org.


Service No. MP3 Tracks Subscription Price Price/Track Movies/TV/Radio/Games Audio quality Regional availability
Audials 10 Million Free Free Yes 320 kbps Everywhere
Archive.org 0.3 Million Free Free Yes Bit rate varies Everywhere