30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery Music Machinery Music APIs Here’s a categorized list of all the Music APIs. Notice one that is missing or miscategorized? Let me know. (http://musicmachinery.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/music-api-logos.png) Music Metadata ArtistLink (http://developer.artistlink.com/) Decibel (http://decibel.net/) Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/developers/) FreeDB (http://www.freedb.org/) http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 1/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery 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/) Clipped to Inbox Spotify (http://developer.spotify.com) The Echo NMesut s(ihc tAtpP:I/s/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) http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 2/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery 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) http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 3/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery 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 http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 4/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/developer/technology/apis.html) DizzyJam (http://www.dizzyjam.com/) – music merch Mozzi (http://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/) – sound synthesis for Arduino MuseScore (http://developers.musescore.com/) – Sheet music Noteflight (http://www.noteflight.com/info/learn_more_developers) – Music notation SongMeanings (https://www.mashape.com/songmeanings/songmeanings#!documentation) Spreaker (http://developers.spreaker.com/) – API for internet radio shows Tinysong – url shortener, resolver for muisc This Is My Jam (https://www.thisismyjam.com/developers) – music sharing, one song at a time WhoSampled (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 automated MHD-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 http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 5/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery 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 the api 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/5 musicme.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 if you want to add a heading called ‘Display/Music Software Creation’, there is ‘Music Notation 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 http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 6/7 30/10/2015 Music APIs | Music Machinery Useful list! Been around the net to look “Music API” php class which is open source and well 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 like ArtistLink 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 your page: http://www.acrcloud.com Blog at WordPress.com. The Fusion Theme. http://musicmachinery.com/music-apis/ 7/7.