echoFT: Free Audio Archive

echoFT — explore the Internet Archive's audio universe

Millions of free songs, live concerts, old-time radio shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and historic recordings — all from archive.org, all in one beautifully simple app.

No account. No ads. No tracking. Just press play.

What you'll find

• Live Music Archive — fan recordings of thousands of bands, from Grateful Dead to indie tours
• Old Time Radio — classic radio dramas, mysteries, and comedies from the 1930s–60s
• 78rpm Records — historic shellac recordings digitized by collectors
• Community Music — uploaded music across every genre imaginable
• Podcasts — archived shows from around the web
• LibriVox Audiobooks — free public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers
• George Blood Audio — professionally digitized historic recordings

Built for discovery

• Discovery feed — curated sections refresh with new finds every time
• Surprise Me — one tap drops you into something you'd never have searched for
• Smart search — filter by collection, sort by popularity, rating, date, or pure chance
• Multi-genre filters — pick up to four genres at once
• Filter by year, era, language — narrow a century of audio into exactly what you want

A proper player

• Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls
• Full queue management — reorder, shuffle, repeat
• Autoplay continues into related items when your queue ends
• Dynamic player backgrounds that adapt to album art
• Mini-player follows you across tabs

Your library, on your device

• Favorite anything in one tap
• Listening history with quick replay
• Everything stored locally — your taste stays yours

Privacy you can actually verify

echoFT has no user accounts, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no servers of its own. Your favorites and history live on your device and nowhere else. The only network traffic is fetching catalog data and streaming audio from archive.org — exactly what you'd expect.

About the Internet Archive

archive.org is a non-profit digital library preserving millions of audio recordings, films, books, and websites. echoFT is an independent client that makes its audio collection easier to explore on mobile. We're not affiliated with the Internet Archive — just big fans of what they do.

Questions, feedback, or a feature request? info@echoft.com

echoFT is made with care by Logic FT Inc.