Do you love Disney parks music? The shows? Parades? Even the ambient music as you walk down Main Street? I love to read blogs, check out websites and podcasts but I find that I can almost feel like I'm in Disney World thorough our extensive collection of park music. You can frequently find us on Saturday mornings dancing around with our two year old to Balafon Marimba Ensemble’s music from Adventureland or the pre-show music from Illuminations.
Have you ever wondered how you can find this wonderful music?
My first suggestion would be to purchase the park music CDs. You can always buy them when you are on vacation but you can also find some on iTunes and most of them on Amazon. If an album is out of print you may be able to find it on ebay. You might be surprised, once your start digging, at what is out there.
Keep humming a tune you heard at the parks but don’t know the name? Disney Music Loops is a website where you can find out the artist, song and album title of practically any song you hear in any of the parks. Want to know the names of the songs played on Main Street USA from 1971 to 1992? Or perhaps you loved the Space Mountain music at Disneyland Paris. This is the place to get your questions answered. You cannot download any music from this site but it does tell you what information you need so that you can find the music elsewhere. The site will also point you to iTunes when a song or album is available there.
There are also some fabulous podcasts that provide sounds from park attractions along with music from the parks. Paul Barrie’s A Window the Magic is fabulous and WTTM24 (by Paul as well) is equally engrossing. Strap on your iPod and close your eyes, you can almost smell the popcorn. I want to do a whole feature on this podcast so keep your eyes open for it in the coming weeks.
Don't necesarily need to own something just need a little touch of Disney Magic? Here are the links to three separate online radio stations that play Disney Parks and Disney Soundtrack music.
Subsonic Radio is run independently with songs chosen by forum members. They use a free points system to allow users to make requests. Members get more points by posting on the forums. This is an independent radio station, and is not affiliated with one of the mega stations.
Subsonic Radio Link
Mouse House Radio is fed by a feed from Live 365. They have a live request show on Sunday nights and go by a traditional broadcast schedule i.e. Music from the Wilderness Lodge on Wednesdays from 7 - 9p.m. This station is primarily ambient music from the parks.
Mouse House Radio Link
Station Schedule
WDWLive is another Live 365 Station. This station features more soundtrack music in addition to music from the parks. This station does not have a set schedule and does not play ambient music loops. If you go to their regular site they have wonderful photos, live in park webcams and ridiculously addictive puzzles of high resolution photographs. More than once I have lost an hour here.
WDWLive Link
So there you have it, how I get my Disney fix. I would love to hear how you get yours...let me know in the comments section.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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6 comments:
I love MouseWorld Radio!
Don't forget about Utiladors Audio Broadcasting. www.uabmagic.com. Free, streaming, 24-7 Disney park music also with requests and a huge library.
Don't forget most can be downloaded free with LimeWire!
Another vote for Mouse World Radio at http://www.mouseworldradio.com
WDWLive is now stealing content from other sites 8-)
WDWLIVE stealing content? That's a bold "anonymous" statment to make!
This would be news to me ... and I am the webmaster. I would love to know who you think we are stealing content from? We only post photos and videos we take outselves! The only external content we posted for a short while was WDW related feeds from USTREAM.TV. Ustream allows (and encourages) the embedding of its video feeds freely, so if that is what you consider stealing, you should read up on Ustream and its "Terms of Service" a little bit.
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