audio library

A audio library is a audio collection. The notion of Audio, meanwhile, is associated with recording, transmission and reproduction of sounds.

General description

The audio libraries, in this way, host sound files. As well as the libraries They shelter books and film libraries they hoard movies, audio libraries collect and organize sounds, facilitating access to them.

Audio is collected and organized in an audio library for easy access

There are different kinds of audio libraries. Many times its collection is made up of audiobooks: recordings of books that were read aloud. Thanks to its characteristics, the audio library favors the dissemination of literature and it allows people who suffer from some type of visual impairment to enjoy the contents of the works.

Audiobooks are growing in popularity because they not only break down the walls of visual impairments but also offer other benefits. First, they allow people with Attention problems approaching literature without demanding a great commitment from them: we know that reading a text requires a greater predisposition than listening to a recording. On the other hand, it is ideal to teach the little ones to tone correctly and vividly.

The supports

In an audio library you can find sound files recorded on different material supports, such as CD, cassettes or vinyl records. Anyway, in recent years the digital audio libraries (that is, they collect digital audio files).

This brings us to a couple of important considerations. First of all, we must remember that even digital recordings also require the existence of a physical medium, although it is not usually talked about. Take for example the solid state disks (known by its acronym SSD), which since the beginning of the 21st century are increasingly popular and are sold in different models; They differ from the traditional hard disk by carrying out reading and writing by means of electrical impulses, without any mechanical procedure. In them you can store large volumes audio.

The main difference between an audio library based on the use of compact discs or cassettes and a “digital” one is that the latter does not require the direct handling of the storage medium for its operation, but it takes place "in the background", while the user moves through a computer program.

Audio libraries of the world

The Ministry of Culture of Argentina, for example, it presents an audio library in its website where you can listen to stories by authors such as Cesar Aira, Ricardo Piglia Y Sara gallardo, read by actors like Alejandro Awada, Adriana aizemberg Y Veronica Llinás.

The Octavio Paz Audioteca of the National Music Library of Mexico, for its part, presents computers (computers) so that attendees can consult and listen to the files that the institution cataloged and digitized.

Nowadays, digital recordings are more common than analog ones

Another meaning

It should be noted that the section or section of a website that makes it possible to listen to audios is also often called audioteca: statements by public figures; speeches by political leaders; interviews; press conferences or conferences, etc.

As has happened with many other concepts, the massification of the Internet has led to changes in the way of interpreting them, largely because many of the activities that previously required a physical environment and a series of actions, such as moving to a school, today can be carried out from home, with a series of clicks or taps on the screen.

While building an audio library used to require physical labor and material resources, today it can be done completely digitally. This results in a diversification of the concept itself, because almost anyone can do it, with much, little or no money, knowledge or experience, so that results they are not comparable.