Music and sound
Maps of music genres, radio from other decades and sound made from data. 7 resources; API, key, license and embedding quoted from each site's own pages, checked Oct 23, 2026.
Musicmap
You can trace how one style grew out of another across a century, click any node, and hear typical tracks from that branch.
Non-commercial
Radiooooo
It turns a map into a time machine for your ears; pick a country and a decade and hear what was playing there.
Non-commercial
Listen to Wikipedia
It turns the world's encyclopedia being written in real time into calm ambient music you can leave running.
LiveCommercial: conditions
Radio Garden
Moving a dot across the planet and hearing the radio change from one town to the next makes distance feel very small.
LiveLicense unclear
Tunefind
It answers the 'what was that song?' question for a specific scene of a show.
License unclear
Music For Programming
An ad-free, artist-curated series whose track lists double as a guide to quiet electronic music.
DownloadNon-commercial
myNoise
Each soundscape works like an instrument you tune yourself with sliders, rather than a fixed loop.
Commercial: conditions
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| Resource | API | Key | Data download | Commercial use | Embed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musicmap An interactive chart of popular music genres drawn as a family tree, showing how genres branch from each other over time, with a short history and example tracks for each. |
No official API | — | — | Non-commercial only | Embedding unclear |
| Radiooooo A web radio where you pick a country on a world map and a decade from 1900 to today, and it plays a curated stream of songs from that place and time. |
No official API | — | — | Non-commercial only | No embedding |
| Listen to Wikipedia A live sound-and-bubble view of Wikipedia edits as they happen: added text rings a bell, removed text plucks a string, and bigger edits play deeper notes. |
No official API | — | — | Commercial use with conditions | Embedding unclear |
| Radio Garden An interactive 3D globe of live radio: spin to a city and listen to its local stations streaming right now. |
API unclear | — | — | Commercial use unclear | Embedding unclear |
| Tunefind A site that lists the songs played in TV episodes, films and games, scene by scene. |
API unclear | — | — | Commercial use unclear | Embedding unclear |
| Music For Programming A long-running series of hour-long ambient and electronic mixes for listening while you code, each with a full track list, streamable on the site or via an RSS podcast feed. |
No official API | — | Yes (mp3, rss) | Non-commercial only | Embedding unclear |
| myNoise A library of adjustable sound generators (rain, white noise, nature, ambient music) where sliders let you mix each frequency band or sound layer to taste. |
API unclear | — | — | Commercial use with conditions | No embedding |