Guides: Media Collections @ Hamline: Audio

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Limited to 5 simultaneous users
Streaming access to over 100,000 CDs; the world's largest online classical music library. Includes jazz, blues, and world music. Provides composers' biographies and historical context for musical pieces.
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The Opera Singers

The Opera Singers, Thomas Rowlandson. Yale Center for British Art
https://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Record/1669975

Free Music Archive
An interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Genres represented include: blues, classical, international, hip-hop, and pop.
Pandora
"Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs, artists or genres into Pandora and let the Music Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice." For live listening only.
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"You agree that you will not:

use the Pandora Services to reproduce copyrighted materials;
copy, store, edit, change, prepare any derivative work of or alter in any way any of the tracks streamed through the Pandora Services"
See Terms of Use for more details.

Music and Sounds.
These sites allow you to use or create your own. Check the Terms of Use.

dig.ccmixter
"dig.ccmixter is devoted to helping you find that great music, all of which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever…"
The FreeSound Project
"The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License."
Incredibox
Drag and drop sounds, beats, effects, and voices to create your own beatbox composition.
Soundation
An online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and over 600 free loops and sounds
SoundCloud
"Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you’ve already created."
Soungle
"Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples on our mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in our growing monster database. Our goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free."