List of online music databases
Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge. Note that many of the sites provide a specialized service or focus on a particular music genre. Some of these operate as an online music store or purchase referral service in some capacity. Among the sites that have information on the largest number of entities are those sites that focus on discographies of composing and performing artists.
| Database | Services | No. of tracks | No. of releases | No. of artists | Notes | License | Full free access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albunack | Combined MusicBrainz/Discogs artist discographies. | ~100,000,000 | ~4,000,000 | ~900,000 | Free | Yes | |
| AllMusic | Music information and reviews. | ~20,000,000[1] | ~2,200,000[1] | Song samples only. | |||
| Archiwum Polskiego Rocka | Polish Rock Archives. | ~20,000 | ~6,300 | ~630 | Yes | ||
| ccMixter | Community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons | 32,334[2] | |||||
| Choral Public Domain Library | |||||||
| Clowdy | Independent Music sharing site | ~20,000 | 20,000 users | Yes | |||
| Decibel | Database of physical/digital products, venues, photos, artists, participants, composers, movements, labels, publishers and rights. | 12,000,000[3] | 301,000 | For commercial business to business usage only. | API available. | ||
| Deezer | Web-based music streaming service | 35,000,000[4] | ~26 million users | No | |||
| Discogs | • Database: user-generated cross-referenced database of physical & digital releases, artists, and labels. With catalogue numbers, codes, and all other markings taken directly from each release. • Companies/organisations: cross-referencing all others involved in music production (record companies, manufacturers, distributors, publishers, rights holders, venues, studios, etc.) • Images: for releases, artists, labels, and other companies/organisations listed. • Marketplace: for trade of physical music releases. | 151,200,000[5] | 5,700,000[6] | 3,750,000[6] | • Multi-lingual. • Free membership (which also removes all site ads). • Marketplace lists nearly 20 million items (largest physical music items marketplace online). | PD/CC0[7] | Free API and XML data dumps.[8] |
| The Echo Nest | A music metadata API. | 35,000,000 | 2,500,000 | Free access to selected catalogues ("sandboxes").[9] | |||
| Encyclopaedia Metallum | A heavy metal encyclopedia with information, complete discography, links, images, and reviews. | ~1,900,000[10] | ~265,000[10] | ~102,000 bands, ~535,000 artists[10] | |||
| freedb | Identification service for CDs. | GPL. | |||||
| Free Music Archive | Curated repository of music (MP3) under Creative Commons and other licenses. Founded by radio station WFMU. | 65,000+ | 12,000+ | Creative Commons / Download-Only/Art Libre/Public Domain | |||
| The Freesound Project | repository of Creative Commons-licensed audio samples. | CC Sampling Plus. | |||||
| Gracenote | Identification service for CDs and other media. | ~100,000,000[11] | ~8,000,000[11] | 1 billion "submissions".[12] | |||
| Guvera | Music streaming service | 10,000,000+[13] | 3 million+ users | Yes | |||
| International Music Score Library Project | Music scores and parts, mostly scanned from publications now in the public domain; some recordings. | 6,500 (150,000 scores) | 6,700 composers, 162 performers.[14] | PD/CC-BY-NC-SA. | |||
| Internet Archive | Huge live music archive and host for hundreds of free music netlabels. | ~200,000[15] | CC/PD. | Yes | |||
| Jamendo | free full-length music download. | CC/Free Art License. | |||||
| Jango | Advertising-supported internet radio and social networking. | Yes. | |||||
| Last.fm | Music community website. | 12,000,000[16] | Automatically creates online library/collection of listened to music and generates recommendations. | ||||
| Libre.fm | |||||||
| LyricWiki | Lyrics wiki on Wikia. | ~1,280,000[17] | ~100,000[17] | ~68,000[17] | Yes, but no access to the lyrics via API. | ||
| MAQAM | Largest Database of Arabic and Middle Eastern music artists, tracks, and albums. | 20,000 | 1,200 | ||||
| MetroLyrics | Lyrics lookup. | ||||||
| Moozone | Online music storage and community service. | 8,000,000 | 730,000 | 590,000 | |||
| MP3.com | information about digital music and artists (formerly freely licensed music download). | Does not play its own music. | |||||
| MuseScore | Online sheet music sharing. | Also includes free music notation software to enable a wide range of instrumental music scores to be created, printed and shared | Yes | ||||
| MusicBrainz | Open content music database. | ~16,000,000[18] | ~1,200,000[18] | ~820,000[18] | GPL/LGPL/PD/CC-BY-NC-SA. | ||
| MusicMight | Biographies and discographies. | ||||||
| Mutopia Project | repository of free content sheet music. | ||||||
| MySpace Music | Licensed music streaming and artist uploaded streaming. | 42,000,000[19] | Free with advertising. | ||||
| Rainwave | Music community featuring video game music. Users can request and rate music, with music selected by election: during every song, users vote from a choice of three tracks to choose the next song to play. | ~11,000 | ~1,500 | ~1,800 | |||
| Rate Your Music | Catalog, rate, tag, and review your music. Create lists. | ~2,850,000[20] | ~960,000[20] | ||||
| Rolldabeats | Drum N Bass music database, physical releases only. | ||||||
| Saavn | High-Quality Web and Mobile Music Streams, acronym for South Asian Audio Visual Network | +2 million | Yes | ||||
| ShareTheMusic | Service for free and legally music sharing. | ||||||
| Spotify | Subscription Music Streaming | 38,000,000[21] | 4,200,000[21] | 2,300,000[21] | +60,000,000 users.[22] Subscription Based | Free With Audio Ads | |
| Werner Icking Music Archive | |||||||
| Wikifonia | Free lead sheets in MusicXML format, contributed and editable by users. | ||||||
| WhoSampled | User-generated database of comparison between original tracks and covers, or songs that uses samples. | 48,000 | 18,000 | ||||
| Database | Services | No. of tracks | No. of releases | No. of artists | Notes | License | Full free access |
See also
- Comparison of on-demand streaming music services
- List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries
- Virtual Library of Musicology
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Coverage Statistics". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ↑ ccMixter - Free Music Downloader
- ↑ "Data and API Coverage Statistics". Decibel. Retrieved 2011-03-29.
- ↑ "Deezer Offers". Deezer.
- ↑ "Data Dumps". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Explore Releases On Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ "Discogs API v2.0 Documentation". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ "Discogs API Documentation". Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- ↑ "The Echo Nest Developer Center". Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "M-A Statistics". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Gracenote |
- ↑ Gracenote |
- ↑ Enricko Lukman (2014-02-04). "Australia’s music streaming service Guvera launches in Indonesia". TechInAsia. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
- ↑ "Library statistics". IMSLP. Retrieved 2010-12-17..
- ↑ "Audio main page". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ↑ Last.fm « CBS IMG
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "LyricWiki Statistics". LyricWiki. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "Database Statistics". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
- ↑ Myspace gains 1 million users, touts more music than Spotify - CNN.com
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "RYM Statistics". RateYourMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 "Spotify Web API Search results". Retrieved 2014-02-16.
- ↑ "Spotify website". Retrieved 2014-02-16.