Music APIs

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

music-api-logos

Music Metadata

Discovery / Playlisting

Audio Content

Audio Identification

Audio Analysis

Lyrics

Events

Music Analytics

Music Stores

Miscellaneous

  1. Gudorfer's avatar

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

    Audio Processing:
    http://auphonic.com

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    • Paul's avatar

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

      thanks. Updated.

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  2. Alexandre Passant's avatar

    #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 automated MHD-ideas generator ;-)

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  3. Cyril's avatar

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

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

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  4. neooen (@neotheoen)'s avatar

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

    Why is grooveshark API absent ?

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  5. youyouca's avatar

    #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/

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    • Paul's avatar

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

      thx

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  6. piem's avatar

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

    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

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  7. Harris Reid's avatar

    #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 the api doesn’t work anymore.
    Eg. http://api.yes.com/1/station?name=WFNX

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  8. B.Log's avatar

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

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

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  9. ade's avatar

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

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  10. Arpege Music's avatar

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

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

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  11. Renars's avatar

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

    Streaming Soundtracks

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  12. Bryan's avatar

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

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

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  13. Nathan White's avatar

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

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

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  14. Ansh's avatar

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

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

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  15. loungetronica's avatar

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

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

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  16. Jeremy's avatar

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

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

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  17. Tony's avatar

    #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

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  18. Joe's avatar

    #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 your page: http://www.acrcloud.com

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  19. Ben's avatar

    #21 by Ben on September 28, 2015 - 1:01 pm

    Hi Paul,
    Thanks so much for including Feed.fm! We’ve changed our logo. Any way I could send you the new one? Also, could you point to our homepage (www.feed.fm) rather than the developers’ sign-in?

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  20. AE's avatar

    #22 by AE on October 20, 2015 - 12:37 pm

    Hi Paul, thanks for the post! Genius also has a great API for lyrics/annotation https://docs.genius.com/#/getting-started-h1

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  21. Vincent Castaignet's avatar

    #23 by Vincent Castaignet on March 9, 2016 - 4:01 pm

    Hi Paul, Musicovery API is missing: it provides recommendations/playlists personalized in real time. http://musicovery.com/api/V3/doc/documentation.php. Thanks, Vincent

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