Songview is a new comprehensive data platform that provides music users with an authoritative view of public performance copyright ownership and administration shares for the vast majority of music licensed in the United States.
How do I find music information?
Shazam. Shazam is a popular song-identifier app that works on most smartphones and even has an extension for web browsers. SoundHound. MusixMatch. Genius. Google Assistant. Siri & Alexa.
Is there a music database?
MusicBrainz is the largest community-maintained open source encyclopedia of music information globally. The MusicBrainz music community has nearly 1.3 million members with a database covering nearly 1 million artists and nearly 18 million songs from over 200 countries.
Where can I research music?
American Musicological Society. International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Major Orchestra Librarians Association. Music Library Association. Society for American Music. Society for Ethnomusicology. Society for Music Theory.
What is the best website to identify songs?
Open the web browser (such as Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome) on your device, then go to www.shazam.com.
Is there a free music website?
As well as finding copyright-free music on YouTube, popular music platform Soundcloud can also be a great source of free music from starting-out artists and established beatmakers. Pros: Lots of artists upload their tracks directly to Soundcloud with Creative Commons licenses allowing you to use their music.
Is there a music search engine?
Shazam – Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics.
What is the best source for music metadata?
MusicBrainz: MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
Is MusicBrainz free?
MusicBrainz believes in providing free open products, and thus all of our services are free for non-commercial use. The MusicBrainz Server is the web frontend to the MusicBrainz Database, and is accessible at https://musicbrainz.org.
Is there a public domain for music?
Public domain music is often older recordings. As of January 2022, music from 1926 and earlier is available in the public domain. However, some details of copyright law mean that later compositions can be accessed in the public domain, as they did not adhere to changes in federal laws.