Choralia is a website devoted to training aids for choirs. Choralia’s final goal is to encourage the diffusion of choral music by helping choir singers to more easily study and learn their parts. The Choralia website is online since March 2006.

Choralplayer is much more recent than Choralia. It was initially developed in 2017 with the name “Choralia mp3 player” as a tool providing additional features on top of Choralia’s choir training aids. Functions like repeating a specific section of music, slowing down music during the most difficult passages, or highlighting the specific voice to be studied, appeared to be very useful for choir singers.

Over time, and thanks to feedback received from users, it became more and more clear that the “Choralia mp3 player” could also be used for other training materials than just those produced by Choralia. Therefore, in 2022 Choralplayer became fully autonomous with respect to Choralia, with Choralia being just one of many possible users of Choralplayer.

Choralplayer and Choralia significantly differ for their respective copyright license policies. Choralplayer is a software, and therefore it is subject to copyright like any other software. Choralia’s training aids are technically “music editions” and “music performances”, and therefore they are subject to copyright as such. The use of Choralia’s training aids is permitted through donations, while the use of Choralplayer is permitted through the displaying of advertisements. Therefore, who makes use of both Choralia’s training aids and of Choralplayer to play them, should make a donation to Choralia and should allow that the advertisements are displayed on Choralplayer.

However, since May 18, 2022, Choralia users who make a donation automatically receive an “ads-stop” code via email, which allows to use Choralplayer lawfully even if the ads are not displayed. Please see this post details.