The listing from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization endorses both Audacity, an open source sound editor, and Sourceforge, an amazing purveyor of open source software products:

This PDF from O'Reilly details the use of binaural microphones to give your podcast a three-dimensional sound field.

Meanwhile, we are interested in hosting binaural podcasts. Anybody?

http://www.holophonic.ch/intro.php

Replay after the choppy loading to experience a fine sound and visual presentation.

Read the web answer!

We include:

Holophonic Sound

3D audio with just two speakers

Just because you'll find at least one broken link.

Most visitors come by bookmark or direct links. These are the search terms used by the others:

"The following are binaural recordings made by placing microphones at my ears and recording the sound around me. If you listen to them on headphones and close your eyes, you're infor a treat. The image at left downloads, while the image at right streams."

http://www.kipjones.net/binau.html

NEW: MP3 Stereo eXtended v1.1.0 for Windows, Mac (Universal Binary), and Linux

From the site you can download a free evaluation version of the Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround player featuring Ensonido, an MP3 Surround encoder, and the MP3 Stereo eXtended converter. This evaluation software is for personal and non-commercial use and intended to demonstrate the MP3 Surround technology available at Fraunhofer IIS.

Several demo songs encoded with MP3 Surround are available for download as well. Please visit also www.all4mp3.com to get even more MP3 Surround music.

FEATURED PODCASTS TAGGED WITH BINAURAL

Caution: Binaural beats. You may be unpleasantly affected.

http://podfeed.net/tags/binaural

Tell Your Story with soundbytes from:

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. New to this site? Read the What is Freesound page to learn more!

Use the search function to find binaural tags.

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/

The DSF-2 Broadcast Microphone System has been specifically developed to simultaneously provide both the surround and stereo soundscape at large scale outside broadcast events such as football stadiums and concert hall venues. Its advantage over alternative methods is that the multichannel audio it generates from a ‘single point’ source is completely phase coherent. This enables the broadcaster to collapse the surround to stereo or mono for TV and radio feeds without loss of information, frequency imbalance or any of the other phase problems associated with spaced microphones or multi capsule ‘dummy head’ arrangements.

http://www.soundfield.com/products/dsf2.php

http://www.univ-brest.fr/mstis/omnihead/accueil.htm

The purpose of the French association of binaural sound engineers and artists is to study the techniques of sound recording and reproduction able to respect a three-dimensional sound space, i.e. our sphere of usual perception. People of France Telecom and IrCAM are involved.

(An English conversion is available. Today's and tomorrow's links courtesy of Simone Fontana)