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A better idea is to use the first one to find specific artists or tracks that you want to download, then use the search bar in the second one to get a hold of them. They are MP3s, but you can do the conversions using
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Note that this isn't perfectly clear. While consensus currently is that these are public domain as U.S. Government Works, it is never explicitly stated as such. MSU and presidential libraries may offer additional information or alternate explicitly labeled copies for
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This is a repository of known locations for free use sound files. Feel free to add to the list. If you do upload, remember to verify free use, as in some cases the site hosts both free and non-free works.
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