How to find music for your production video, courseware etc.?

Step 1Click on Database

Go to Library Homepage: http://www.np.edu.sg/library

Step 2 Click on Music and Sound

Step 3Click on Big Bang & Fuzz

Step 4Click on Big Bang & Fuzz.

**To note1) If you have difficulties downloading, it could mean that the maximum no. of

download is reached. Contact the Reference Counter at 6460-6290.2) Music is could be used for video production for internal use only ( teaching and research purposes)

1) Select songs by labels, styles OR playlists

Step 1Choose the style and clickon the icon under Pop to see all albums within the genre

Step 2The cover and title of albums will be listed. Click on the album title

Step 1(a) Alternatively, you can click on the title of the genre to expand. This will list all the albums under the genre

2) Listen to the music

Step 1Click on the music hyperlink to listen to the music that you have selected .

Step 2Click on the stop button if you want to stop the music

3) Cut portion of the music and save

Step 1Click on the scissors icon

Step 2Drag your mouse to select the portion of music that you want to snip

Step 3Click on the download icon depicted by arrow

Step 4Click on the OK button

Step 5Click on the save as link

Step 6Save the file in mp3 format

Step 1All the song tracks within the album will be listed

Step 3Choose the appropriate icons

Step 2Take note of the title of the song, name & duration of the album Add to favourites

Cuesheet information

Download track See next page for explanation>>

4) Save the music track

Add to favouritesStep 4Once you have clicked this icon, all the selected albums will be stored under this icon in the database

Step 5Click on the icon “X” if you wish to delete the album from the favourite list

( Contains all albums selected by users which they added as their favourites)

Cuesheet information

Step 6: Once you click on , you will be prompted to open, save or cancel

The Open icon will open up a Microsoft Excel file showing the album, track, track name, composer, label and original publisher

The Save button icon will enable you to save the cuesheet information into Microsoft Excel format

Download track Download track will enable you to save the music

in mp3 format

Step 7Click on the OK button

Step 8Click on the save as link

Step 9Click on the save button. The file is saved as mp3

5) Search by keywords

Step 1Type the keyword

Step 2Songs with the keyword in the summary will be retrieved