Did you know that you can listen to music from LDS General Conference back to 2008 by clicking on “Show Music” at the top of each page in the conference section on LDS.org (gc.lds.org)?
You can also access an index of general conference music at GCmusic.lds.org. You can search across multiple archives and conferences. The music can be streamed or downloaded. The collection includes hymns sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and other choirs at general conference. The archive goes back over 10 years, and more music is being added all the time.
For more references to conference archives, see Archives of LDS General Conference.
I just checked the site, and only see a few music items from before 2008 on the main Conference website, and nothing before 2008 on the music page yet. In fact, there are only a half dozen songs available but only in video format from 2007 right now on the main Conference pages, there could be another few elsewhere, but nothing really substantive yet.
Jim, you’re right. Today, it’s mostly music from 2008-2012. More is being added over time back 10 years.
i’ve been eagerly awaiting the new music section, ever since i saw that announcement that they were putting audio/video archives online for earlier conferences.
unfortunately, all that is on the music page now was available previously from the individual conference pages – nothing new has yet been added except several empty year placeholders.
does anyone know if they plan to put music from all the conferences they are putting video/audio from (ie all the way back to the 80s)? the comment above from ldsweb is the only thing i’ve heard as to the date range, aside from the empty year placeholders in the current music site (back to 1994 there, iirc).
i would be very interested to get music from as many conferences as possible (with lossless quality ideally, but the mp3 being quite acceptable).