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Music Machinery

Music APIs

Here’s a categorized list of all the Music APIs.  Notice one that is missing or miscategorized?Let me know.

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Music Metadata

ArtistLink (http://developer.artistlink.com/)Decibel (http://decibel.net/)Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/developers/)FreeDB (http://www.freedb.org/)

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Gracenote (https://developer.gracenote.com/web-api)Last.fm (http://www.last.fm/api)MusicBrainz(http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2)MusicStory (http://developers.music-story.com/)Nokia (http://api.ent.nokia.com/)OneMusicAPI (http://www.onemusicapi.com/)OpenAura (http://developer.openaura.com/)Rockol (https://rockol.3scale.net/)Rovi (http://developer.rovicorp.com/)Spotify (http://developer.spotify.com)The Echo Nest (http://developer.echonest.com)

Discovery / Playlisting

8tracks (http://8tracks.com/developers)Bandcamp (http://bandcamp.com/developer)The Hype machine (http://hypem.com/)Last.fm (http://last.fm/)Playlists.net (http://playlists.net/api/documentation)plug.dj (http://blog.plug.dj/api-documentation/)Rovi (http://developer.rovicorp.com/)Setlist.fm (http://api.setlist.fm/docs/index.html)Shuffler.fm (http://developers.shuffler.fm/)Spotify (http://developer.spotify.com)StereoMood (http://www.stereomood.com/api/documentation/)Tastekid (http://www.tastekid.com/page/api)The Echo Nest (http://developer.echonest.com)Tunefind (http://www.tunefind.com/api)

Audio Content

7Digital (http://developer.7digital.com/)8Tracks (http://8tracks.com/developers)Beatport (http://api.beatport.com/)ccMixter (http://ccmixter.org/query-api)Deezer (http://developers.deezer.com/api/)Feed.fm  (http://developer.feed.fm/documentation)

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Music APIs

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Free Music Archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/)Freesound (http://www.freesound.org/help/developers/)Grooveshark (http://developers.grooveshark.com/)Jamendo (http://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0)Medianet (http://www.mndigital.com/integration/openapi.html)Mixcloud (http://www.mixcloud.com/developers/documentation/)Playme (http://lab.playme.com/api_overview)Qobuz (https://github.com/Qobuz/api-documentation)Rdio (http://developer.rdio.com/)Shoudio (http://shoudio.com/developer)SoundCloud (http://developers.soundcloud.com/)Soundkeep (http://www.soundkeep.com/api)Spotify (https://developer.spotify.com/)Tomahawk (http://toma.hk/api.html)Youtube (https://developers.google.com/youtube/)

Audio Identification

AcousticID (http://acoustid.org/webservice)BMAT (http://www.bmat.com/)Gracenote (https://developer.gracenote.com/)The Echo Nest (http://developer.echonest.com)

Audio Analysis

Auphonic (https://auphonic.com/)SampleSumo (https://www.samplesumo.com/samplesumo-classical-music-hack-day-vienna)sonicAPI.com (http://www.sonicapi.com/)The Echo Nest (http://developer.echonest.com)

Lyrics

ChartLyrics (http://www.chartlyrics.com/api.aspx)

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LyricFind (http://www.lyricfind.com/services/lyrics-search/)MusixMatch (https://developer.musixmatch.com/)

Events

Bandsintown (http://www.bandsintown.com/api/overview)EventFul (http://api.eventful.com/)Gigatools (http://api.gigatools.com/)Jambase (http://developer.jambase.com/)Rockol (https://rockol.3scale.net/)SeatGeek (http://platform.seatgeek.com/)SeatWave (http://developer.seatwave.com/)Setlist.fm (http://api.setlist.fm/docs/index.html)Songkick (https://www.songkick.com/developer)Tourfilter (http://www.tourfilter.com/boston/about/feeds)

Music Analytics

Musicmetric (http://developer.musicmetric.com/)NextBigSound (http://api3.nextbigsound.com/)The Echo Nest (http://developer.echonest.com)

Music Stores

Amazon (https://developer.amazon.com/)Apple iTunes(http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html)Reverb.com (http://reverb.com/page/api) –  Buy and sell music gear

Miscellaneous

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The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/developer/technology/apis.html)DizzyJam (http://www.dizzyjam.com/) – music merchMozzi (http://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/) – sound synthesis for ArduinoMuseScore (http://developers.musescore.com/) – Sheet musicNoteflight (http://www.noteflight.com/info/learn_more_developers) – Music notationSongMeanings(https://www.mashape.com/songmeanings/songmeanings#!documentation)Spreaker (http://developers.spreaker.com/) – API for internet radio showsTinysong – url shortener, resolver for muiscThis Is My Jam (https://www.thisismyjam.com/developers) – music sharing, one song ata timeWhoSampled (http://blog.whosampled.com/tag/api/)YES (http://api.yes.com/#station) – Broadcast Radio now playing info

COMMENTS (20)

#1 by Gudorfer on October 24, 2013 - 3:52 pm

Audio Processing:http://auphonic.com

#2 by Paul on October 25, 2013 - 6:02 am

thanks. Updated.

#3 by Alexandre Passant on October 25, 2013 - 11:44 am

That’s great – if you make this available in JSON, one could probably write an automatedMHD-ideas generator ;-)

#4 by Cyril on October 25, 2013 - 12:49 pm

http://tuneefy.com uses a lot of them ;)

#5 by neooen (@neotheoen) on October 26, 2013 - 7:55 am

Why is grooveshark API absent ?

#6 by youyouca on October 28, 2013 - 7:40 pm

Great compilation! Here is another one… Album credits & Metadata “Music-Story”http://developers.music-story.com/

#7 by Paul on October 29, 2013 - 5:26 am

thx

#8 by piem on October 29, 2013 - 2:02 pm

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Hi Paul,

nice list. how would you define ‘Music APIs’?

your list of tools at http://music-ir.org/evaluation/tools.html was good too.

best, piem

#9 by Harris Reid on November 12, 2013 - 1:47 pm

Yes has been discontinued and is succeeded by http://rew.fm/. The site is intact but theapi doesn’t work anymore.Eg. http://api.yes.com/1/station?name=WFNX

#10 by B.Log on February 26, 2014 - 2:15 pm

pandora.com : http://pan-do-ra-api.wikia.com/wiki/Json/5musicme.com: it’s called Axe, but I couldn’t find a link.http://www.dessbox.com/start.php : uses Youtube API, however

#11 by ade on April 7, 2014 - 5:48 pm

how about http://www.audioboo.fm

#12 by Arpege Music on April 17, 2014 - 4:26 am

Thank you to add ‘Pizzicato’ (http://www.arpegemusic.com) in ‘Miscellaneous’ and ifyou want to add a heading called ‘Display/Music Software Creation’, there is ‘MusicNotation Library’ (http://www.music-software-development.com).

#13 by Renars on May 6, 2014 - 3:50 am

Streaming Soundtracks

#14 by Bryan on May 6, 2014 - 8:55 am

a new one from Microsoft: http://www.music.xbox.com/developer.

#15 by Nathan White on October 14, 2014 - 1:59 am

Would Shazam or Slacker Radio qualify? I am a laymen.

#16 by Ansh on November 3, 2014 - 11:54 am

Great list! Another API for discovery and playlisting – http://www.musicgraph.com

#17 by loungetronica on December 12, 2014 - 10:46 am

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Useful list! Been around the net to look “Music API” php class which is open source andwell developed.

#18 by Jeremy on February 28, 2015 - 2:12 pm

Hey Paul, cool website and looking forward to connecting with you directly. It looks likeArtistLink is shutting down as of today. Should it be removed from the list?

#19 by Tony on March 3, 2015 - 3:21 am

Hi Paul, great post! Can we submit our music ID API to this list?http://developer.doreso.com Thanks

#20 by Joe on June 16, 2015 - 4:41 am

Hi Paul, here’s another service doing audio identification, hope you can list it on yourpage: http://www.acrcloud.com

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