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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACRCloud | Music recognition & audio based music retrieval | ~40,000,000[1] | Commercially available with SDKs, APIs for file scanning, airplay monitoring, shazam-liked featues | Free trial available in 15 days | |||
| AllMusic | Music information and reviews. | ~20,000,000[2] | ~2,200,000[2] | Song samples only. | |||
| Choral Public Domain Library | Sheet music archive of choral and vocal music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing | Yes | |||||
| Quantone | 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. | ||
| 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[4] | 8,000,000[5] | 4,800,000[5] | • Multi-lingual. • Free membership (which also removes all site ads). • Marketplace lists over 31 million items (largest physical music items marketplace online). • 1 billion edits. | PD/CC0[6] | Free API and XML data dumps.[7] |
| The Echo Nest | A music metadata API. | 35,000,000 | 2,500,000 | Free access to selected catalogues ("sandboxes").[8] | |||
| Encyclopaedia Metallum | A heavy metal encyclopedia with information, complete discography, links, images, and reviews. | ~1,900,000[9] | ~265,000[9] | ~102,000 bands, ~535,000 artists[9] | |||
| freedb | Identification service for CDs. | GPL. | |||||
| The Freesound Project | repository of Creative Commons-licensed audio samples. | CC Sampling Plus. | |||||
| Gracenote | Identification service for CDs and other media. | ~100,000,000[10] | ~8,000,000[10] | 1 billion "submissions".[11] | |||
| International Music Score Library Project | Music scores and parts, mostly scanned from publications now in the public domain; some recordings. | 42,000 (370,000 scores) | 14,500 composers, 387 performers.[12] | PD/CC-BY-NC-SA. | |||
| Last.fm | Music community website. | 12,000,000[13] | Automatically creates online library/collection of listened to music and generates recommendations. | ||||
| LyricWiki | Lyrics wiki on Wikia. | ~1,653,416[14] | ~159,749[14] | ~82,226[14] | 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. | ||||||
| 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 | No--free accounts are permitted five uploads; beyond that, payment is required | ||||
| MusicBrainz | Open content music database. | ~22,788,339[15] | ~1,828,671[15] | ~1,231,199[15] | GPL/LGPL/PD/CC-BY-NC-SA. | ||
| MusicMight | Biographies and discographies. | ||||||
| Musixmatch | The world's largest lyrics platform. | Yes. | |||||
| Mutopia Project | repository of free content sheet music. | ||||||
| Rolldabeats | Drum N Bass music database, physical releases only. | ||||||
| University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives Service Center[16] | |||||||
| 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
- Music streaming
- Comparison of on-demand streaming music services
- List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries
- Virtual Library of Musicology
- Automatic Content Recognition
References
- ↑ Ho, Vanessa (6.10.2016). "LyricFind becomes more easily available to developers". Retrieved 24.7.2017. Check date values in:
|access-date=, |date=(help) - 1 2 "Coverage Statistics". Allmusic. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ↑ "Data and API Coverage Statistics". Decibel. Retrieved 2011-03-29.
- ↑ "Data Dumps". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-02-21.
- 1 2 "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.
- 1 2 3 "M-A Statistics". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
- 1 2 Gracenote |
- ↑ Gracenote |
- ↑ "Library statistics". IMSLP. Retrieved 2010-12-17..
- ↑ Last.fm « CBS IMG
- 1 2 3 "LyricWiki Statistics". LyricWiki. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- 1 2 3 "Database Statistics". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- ↑ "Home - Audio-Visual Resources @ Pitt Archives - LibGuides at University of Pittsburgh". libguides.com.
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