Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Great 78 Project
Listen to over 400,000 digitized 78rpm vinyl recordings
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Great 78 Project launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer. I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras. This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place. [1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184
2025 · byte.tsundoku.io · its alternatives →
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2.8 million high-res images for anyone to download free.
2020 · si.edu · its alternatives →
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Wander Off the Map. Find Something Wonderful.
2021 · locserendipity.com · its alternatives →
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MusicMap▲201Genealogy and history of popular music genres (1870-2016)
2016 · musicmap.info · its alternatives →
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Interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads
2015 · freemusicarchive.org · its alternatives →
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Nostalgic sounds from the past
2014 · savethesounds.info · its alternatives →
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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I built this because I wanted to know what people in Japan were listening to the year I was born. That question spiraled: how does a hit in Rome compare to what was charting in Lagos the same year? How did sonic flavors propagate as streaming made musical influence travel faster than ever? 88mph is a playable map of music history: 230 charts across 20 countries, spanning 8 decades (1940–2025). Every song is playable via YouTube or Spotify. It's open source and I'd love help expanding it — there's a link to contribute charts for new countries and years. The goal is to crowdsource a complete…
Mar 2026 · 88mph.fm · its alternatives →
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Archived recordings of sounds made by products from the 90s
2018 · conservethesound.de · its alternatives →
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FreeSound▲161Huge database of free audio snippets, samples, + recordings
2014 · freesound.org · its alternatives →
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Explore the entirety of the Louvre's collection for free
2021 · collections.louvre.fr · its alternatives →
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Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44c65b5779d9d8021e002584fa73740f36d052a6&dn=10m_hn_comments_sorted Go to https://hn-archive.appspot.com/ for the torrent file / source code. I'll be semi-frequently checking the story and answering any questions which may come up.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Music recommendations based on your listening history 🎶
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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RecordGram▲97A studio and production marketplace in the palm of your hand
2017 · recordgram.com · its alternatives →
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A massive dataset of manually annotated audio events
2017 · research.google.com · its alternatives →
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Openwhyd▲146Collect & share musical gems from YouTube, SoundCloud & more
2016 · openwhyd.org · its alternatives →
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67K+ tems digitized from The NY Public Library's collections
2016 · digitalcollections.nypl.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I'm the president and founder of a small non-profit called Reclaim The Records that identifies historical and genealogical materials and data sets held by government agencies, archives, and libraries -- and then returns them to the public domain, for free public use. Back in September 2017, our organization made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) asking for a copy of a database they maintain called "BIRLS", which stands for the Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem. While it's not exactly an index of every…
2025 · birls.org · its alternatives →
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Full RA music collection in sync with Spotify playlists
2019 · residentarchive.com · its alternatives →
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