The new British Library Sounds site: a sample playlist and more information

[Richard Ranft]

Here are 10 'taster' clips from the new British Library Sounds website at http://sounds.bl.uk, where you may listen for free to 50,000 other tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Users at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks for research use.

 

Originally launched in 2007 as 'Archival Sound Recordings' the British Library Sounds site has many new features available to anybody

• completely redesigned pages
• improved navigation
• new audio player showing waveform
• improvements for linking to pages
• improved sound maps
• And if you sign up for free registration you can add notes at specific points on the audio  timelines, create your own playlists, add tags and 'favourite' specific tracks so that you can easily find again on return visits to the site.

Feedback on the new site is welcome and will help us add further improvements to the site.