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Original SOTD Page

The sound of the day is a sound recording dynamically updated each day from among those that add so much richness to Wikipedia articles. Currently there is no place for sound recordings in Wikipedia featured content, but the goal of this project is to build a community to make that possible.

The genres of the sound recordings will vary by day of the week and reflect the relative abundance of material available under a free license or in the public domain, viz.: classical music Mondays & Fridays, folk music Wednesdays & Sundays, sound portraits Tuesdays, speeches Thursdays, and religious music Saturdays. An archive will be kept of sound recordings previously selected.

You can insert the sound recording on your user page or talk page by adding the text {{SOTD}}. It will be displayed in a box of no more than 300 pixels wide, and will include a small amount of text based on the article in which the sound recording appears.

Templates

By day

By type

Guidelines

The process of selection will be informal; feel free to update the coming days yourself.
Remember to include pertinent information about the sound recording.
If you know of a great sound recording on Wikipedia, but are wary of editing the template, then please request its inclusion.

Original SOTD Archive

This will be an archive of sound recordings selected for sound of the day.

June 2006

June 20: <phonos file="Tromboon-sample.ogg">The tromboon was designed to combine the "worst" aspects of the trombone and the bassoon.</phonos>
June 21: <phonos file="Toque-de-angola.ogg">An unaccompanied berimbau playing a Capoeira Angola rhythm.</phonos>
June 22: <phonos file="Advertising Record.ogg">The wonders of the phonograph are evoked in this early form of audio advertising, recorded by Len Spencer.</phonos>
June 23: <phonos file="Vivaldi - Four Seasons 1 Spring mvt 1 Allegro - John Harrison violin.oga">Allegro from Spring, from the The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi.</phonos>
June 24: <phonos file="Ein' Feste Burg.ogg">Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott ("A Mighty Fortress is Our God") is the most well-known of Martin Luther's hymns.</phonos>
June 25: <phonos file="Cotton-EyedJoe.ogg">A 1939 recording of Cotton-Eyed Joe, a traditional song of the Southern United States.</phonos>

July 2006

English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Sound of the day/2006/Archive