Music
Three stations to read to. Whichever you pick keeps playing while you move around the site, and the controls stay at the bottom of the page.
Minecraft
Slow, and written to sit under something else
The Minecraft soundtrack was written to play behind an activity rather than to be listened to. Long sustained chords with almost nothing percussive under them, and very little that resolves in a way that pulls your head back up from the page.
41 songs
Classical
Instrumental, and none of it asks for your attention
The claim that classical music raises your IQ came from a 1993 experiment on spatial reasoning, and the effect did not survive replication. What does hold up is narrower and more useful: words in music compete with reading for the same part of your attention, and music without words does not.
30 songs
Anime
Openings and endings, mostly
Nearly all of this has words in it, which is the opposite of what the other two stations are for. It suits the walk to your desk and the break afterwards better than the middle of a reading session, so it is here for the part of studying that is not reading.
92 songs
How this works
No audio is hosted here. A station is either a list of songs on YouTube or one long recording, played through YouTube’s own embed, which is the small tile on the left of the player bar. The buttons on the bar drive that embed.
Where a station lists its songs, clicking one starts there. If a song has had embedding turned off by whoever uploaded it, the station steps over it rather than stopping.
Nothing is stored about what you listen to, and no account is involved. If the player never appears, an extension is probably blocking the embed.