Music & Video Online
With your WVML card, you can stream high quality recordings from our music databases and film subscriptions.
library databases: music
Access these resources with your WVML card.
Listen online to over 330,000 tracks of classical music. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. You can also create your own playlists.
Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only.
Complete catalogues or selected recordings of over 800 classical music labels including Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, Finlandia, Hänssler Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton, LSO Live, Marco Polo, Naxos, New York Philharmonic, Nimbus, Nonesuch, RCA, Sony Classical, Teldec, Universal Classics, Warner Classics, and Parlophone (former EMI Classics.)
Listen in browser or download the app*: iOS | Android
*App users must first create an account: click here.
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All jazz, all the time. Listen online to an entire album or search for your favourite song or performer.
Listen in browser or download the app*: iOS | Android
*App users must first create an account: click here.
Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only.
library databases: video
Access these resources with your WVML card.
Stream an amazing collection of movies and documentaries. You can also learn new skills with the Great Courses. Users have access to 18 credits per month (but unlimited access to Great Courses and kids' content).
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Download the app: iOS | Android
Access Information: Licensed for West Vancouver residents only.
Medici.tv streams videos of classical music, opera, dance, and jazz, offering a catalogue of over 3,000 programs, including concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, and master classes, filmed from the 1940s to the present day. Every year medici.tv streams over 150 live events from the world’s most prestigious concert halls, opera houses, festivals, and competitions. Replays are usually available for three months.
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on the web: music
These curated resources are free and easily accessible on the web! All you need is an internet connection
Canada's online music service offers playlists in a variety of genres.
The current titan of music streaming. A huge catalogue of music (30 million+ songs), with most genres and styles well represented. Spotify free allows you to find and stream music, and to create and share playlists. Ads are present in the free version, and offline listening is only available for premium accounts. On mobile, you cannot select specific songs. You choose a playlist, and can listen to it on shuffle and can skip up to six tracks per hour.
App available for Android, iOS, windows mobile and computer. Account required.
on the web: video
These curated resources are free and easily accessible on the web! All you need is an internet connection
Newsreel footage from around the globe covering major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture from1896 to 1976.
Full-length feature films, classic shorts, documentaries, World War II propaganda and more; many are available for free download.
Documentary, fiction and animated films which explore the world we live in from a Canadian point of view, with a dedicated channel highlighting Indigenous perspectives (Indigenous Cinema).