If you could build it in 2024 what would you do differently and what would you keep the same?

Even better, while there's plenty of music to be had, there's a lot of other stuff as well. In my case, what led me to even find this was just looking for public domain audio files I could use for testing and debugging various bits of audio processing software that I'm working with.

I'll be interested in maybe using some files for testing speech recognition and what-not as part of that. So some of the interviews and spoken word recordings will be of primary interest to me.

That said, I'm sure there's some interesting music mixed in here as well and I'm looking forward to exploring that. :-)

> My only qualm is in "browse" mode, I wish the clips were slightly longer. Or that holding down the mouse/trackpad kept playing the clip. As of now, and unless I'm doing it wrong, the clips are so short you only get the vaguest sense of their content.

Their processing splits out individual sounds from longer clips, so the purpose is to browse those clips, not the full songs/recordings. Works quite well when you're hunting for things to use as samples in music production.

But regardless of that, once you've selected a clip, you can click "Play in context" to playback the sound together with what's before and after. And for the full song/recording, you can press "View on loc.gov" to play the entire thing.

Creator here. In general, the samples are automatically selected using a mix of onset detection and audio analysis, giving preference to clips that have a clear musical pitch. I give a brief explanation here: https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/about/#how-do-you-selectcrea... . The sequencer randomly selects 4 of those samples that are sequential in the source audio. You can change them individually by clicking on the track settings button (the mixer icon).

> Proposed budgets should not exceed $90,000 for the first year and $90,000 for the optional second year. The Labs team seeks proposals for research and work that connects Library collections to new audiences by promoting insight and inspiration, discovery of Library items, and/or creative remixing and reuse. [1]

Speaking as a taxpayer, that seems like a pretty minimal investment (certainly on the government scale) with a novel, beneficial goal.

[1]: https://labs.loc.gov/about/opportunities/innovator-in-reside...

It’s less than one minute of nuclear arsenal maintenance. We can afford both.

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2024/06/17/us-sp...

Yes. It has my vote.

Creator here. Yes, I confirm that those terms are taken directly from the Library's subject headings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_He... . And yes, the Library's subject headings, and really the broader practice of describing cultural/historical materials, are sometimes problematic and constantly evolving.

Seems the filters are automatically taken from the Library of Congress items themselves, and in the case of "Jews", there is only a single item that matches that filter: https://www.loc.gov/item/00694076/ ("Cohen on his honeymoon")

There is a bunch of other filters that doesn't make much sense is a musical context, like "facial expressions" or "dough" but again, those come from the Library of Congress, not from CitizenDJ, it seems at least.

I have not downloaded....

What sounds are under the jew category?