A growing number of sites permit free downloading of music (audio, video, sheet). I suggest you store files in your iTunes library with as complete labeling as you desire. There are also many sites that stream radio stations. You should be as selective as possible in format choice (MP4a and AAC files are larger but sound better than MP3). [the links below are for classical music, but many other genre are also online]
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- Watch while you listen. Some of my favorites.
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- Sounds enormous collection of British Library
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- Classical connect (need to register)
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- Live Classical Music
- MediciTV nusic, operas, documentaries
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- Just Instrumental Music
- BBC Archive of 25,000+ 78rpm records
- 214 stations
- Know Your Composers: Famous People of Classical Music. Useful, plus many inks to other rich sites. (thanks to a children’s librarian and the kids for this discovery).