Format: Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.) and Betamax - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Primarily interviews and live musical performances featuring international newsmakers to local musicians. Includes nearly complete (app. 450 hours) archive of live-performance show, "Sandy Bradley's POTLUCK," aired on KUOW in Seattle and about 50 non-commercial US stations between 1984-1995. Also hundreds of hours of live folk, classical and world-music concerts from Puget Sound region. A large portion of this material has been archived in digital (.wav/44.1/16) format (done in 2008).
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, and Still image
Formats:: Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Betamax, Text document, and PDFs
Extent:: > 1000 reel-to-reel analogue tapes, several hundred DATs, small number of cassettes, MDs, CDs
Repository/Collector:: KUOW-FM / Puget Sound Public Radio / University of Washington

Description:: Studio and live recording sessions for Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, produced for National Public Radio. Broadcast programs of same.
Content types:: Performed Music, Spoken Word, and Broadcast Programs
Formats:: Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:: approximately 750
Repository/Collector:: South Carolina Public Radio/SCETV

Description:: Studio and live recording sessions for Walter Edgar's Journal. Broadcast programs of same.
Content types:: Performed Music, Spoken Word, and Broadcast Programs
Formats:: Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Repository/Collector:: South Carolina Public Radio/SCETV

Content types:: Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, MiniDisc, Cylinder, Sound wire reel, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Paper open reel tape, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, 8mm video (including Hi8), DV (including MiniDV), Betacam (including Betacam SP), Digital Betacam (a.k.a. DigiBeta), U-matic (including U-matic S), DVCPro, Open reel video, DVCAM, HDCAM, Data disk (floppy disk), Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:: 5.3 million items
Repository/Collector:: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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