asoftmurmur.com
Mix rain, thunder, waves, fire and coffee-shop chatter into a custom ambient background for focus or sleep.
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Music & Audio
Listen, make, and discover: sound-first corners of the web.
sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
16,000+ BBC sound effects, searchable and free to download for personal, educational and research use.
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musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
A set of hands-on browser experiments that teach rhythm, harmony, spectrograms and oscillators by letting you play with them.
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conservethesound.de
An audio museum preserving the sounds of obsolete objects — rotary phones, typewriters, film projectors, dial-up modems.
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everynoise.com
A scatterplot of thousands of music genres, click any dot to hear what "drift phonk" or "throat singing" actually sounds like.
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frequency2156.com
Crowd-built soundscape imagining what Earth's radio broadcasts sound like in 2156.
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gnoosic.com
Name three bands you love and it recommends artists you probably haven't heard.
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hooktheory.com
A searchable database of 10,000+ chord progressions from real songs, with the theory behind why they work.
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music.ishkur.com
An opinionated, annotated, playable genealogy of every electronic music subgenre.
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listen.hatnote.com
Plays a bell or string note for every live Wikipedia edit, sized by how big the edit was.
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lofiatc.com
Layers live air traffic control radio from any major airport over lo-fi hip hop.
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music-map.com
Type in a band and get a spatial cloud of similar artists, closer meaning more similar.
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musicmap.info
Enormous genealogy of every popular music genre, with history and audio examples.
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naturallanguageplaylist.com
Describe a mood or absurd musical premise in plain English and get a matching Spotify playlist.
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poolsuite.net
80s-styled music player and video mixtape with a full retro Mac desktop interface.
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radio.garden
Spin a 3D globe and drop into live local radio stations anywhere on Earth.
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radiooooo.com
Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear the music people were actually listening to there.
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thenostalgiamachine.com
Pick a year and instantly hear the hits that were everywhere at the time.
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webamp.org
A pixel-perfect Winamp 2.9 reimplementation in the browser, skins and all, that plays your own files.
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websdr.org
Tune software-defined radio receivers around the world live from your browser.
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