Subscription libraries are convenient, but they are not the only way to build a personal music collection. The resources below cover a wide spread: Chinese pop and general music search engines, classical score archives, Western music discovery sites, and generators for rain, forest, ocean, and other background sounds. Some are direct download pages, some are search front ends, and some are archives of public-domain or freely licensed material. Links can go offline or change their rules, so treat this as a map rather than a guarantee.
General music and pop
- MyFreeMP3 — tools.liumingye.cn/music/?page=searchPage. A search page for music downloads.
- Crazy Music Search (疯狂音乐搜索) — music.myepoch.cn. A music search aggregator.
- 5sing — 5sing.kugou.com. Chinese music site.
- Music Searcher (音乐搜索器) — music.itzo.cn.
- Geqibao (歌曲宝) — gequbao.com.
- Fangpi (放屁网) — fangpi.net.
- Liu Zhijin Lab (刘志进实验室) — music.liuzhijin.cn.
- Panda Lossless Music (熊猫无损音乐) — xmwav.com.
- MyFreeMP3 — myfreemp3.sharerj.com. Another MyFreeMP3 entry.
- Hifini — hifini.com.
- Tonzhon (铜钟) — tonzhon.com.
- CDBao Music Network (CD包音乐网) — cdbao.net.
- Benzi Music (本子音乐网) — debenzi.com/s.
- Wandog Music (顽狗音乐) — music.dogged.cn.
- Ting Yinyue (听音乐) — lvyueyang.github.io/web-music.
Classical music, scores, and instrumental collections
- International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) — cn.imslp.org. International sheet music library.
- Global Piano Network (环球钢琴网) — hqgq.com.
- Mutopia Project — mutopiaproject.org.
- Kunst der Fuge — kunstderfuge.com.
- 8notes — 8notes.com.
- free-scores — free-scores.com.
- Musopen — musopen.org. A Chinese-language entry is also available at musopen.org/zh-hans.
- Classical Piano MIDI (古典钢琴midi) — piano-midi.de.
- Light Music Club (轻音乐俱乐部) — qingyinyue.club.
- Haoting Light Music (好听轻音乐网) — htqyy.com.
- Qingyin Louwu (清音陋屋) — 52qingyin.cn.
Western music and discovery
- Skymus — skymuz.org. Listed as a Russian site.
- Every Noise at Once — everynoise.com. A genre exploration site.
- Musopen (Chinese interface) — musopen.org/zh-hans. The main Musopen entry appears above.
- Jamendo — jamendo.com.
Ambient, nature, and background sounds
- Sound Valley (声谷) — soundvery.com. Various natural sounds.
- Virtocean — virtocean.com. Ocean ambience.
- Bubble White Noise (泡泡白噪音) — ppbzy.com. Rainy-night and campfire sounds.
- RainyMood — rainymood.com. Rain and thunder.
- myNoise — mynoise.net. Nature sounds.
- Tree — tree.fm. Forest animal sounds.
- Raining.FM — raining.fm.
- Defonic — defonic.com. Mixed natural sounds.
- Nature Sound Map — naturesoundmap.com.
- A Soft Murmur — asoftmurmur.com.
- Rainy Scope — rainyscope.com. Four-season sounds.
- Bubble Pop (捏泡泡) — bubblespop.netlify.app.
Before downloading or reusing anything, check the site's current terms and the license attached to the recording or score.