The Music Online collection offers more than 110,000 tracks of music and covers all musical tastes, from classical music and world beat, to spoken word and sounds. Coming soon:

• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® - individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, including the published recordings owned by the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label.
• African American Music - documents the history of African American music in sound; covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.
• American Song - covers American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing.
• Contemporary World Music - music of all regions from every continent, such as reggae, worldbeat, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, world fusion, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gagaku, and more.
• Classical Music Library - a multi-label database containing 50,000+ tracks of Classical music written from the earliest times to the present.