Free Music & Audio APIs

Spotify music catalog, track audio features, user playlists, and playback control

Music recommendations, artist scrobbling, top tracks, and genre tags

Open-source encyclopedic music database: artists, releases, and ISRC records

Music streaming catalog, artist discography, and 30-second track previews

Comprehensive song lyrics, music metadata, album artwork, and artist discography API.

Simple and free song lyrics search API with zero authentication

Apple iTunes store search for songs, albums, podcasts, and audiobooks

Collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed audio and sound effects

Open podcast directory, episode feeds, and namespace telemetry

Comprehensive podcast search engine and episode transcription database

Vinyl and CD release catalog, marketplace pricing, and artist discography

Independent artist audio tracks, playlists, and user stream feeds

Acoustic audio fingerprinting and music recognition endpoints

Provides access to music feature data, including low-level and high-level semantic descriptors derived from audio files. It allows users to retrieve information about musical characteristics such as rhythm, tonality, and mood, which can be utilized in music analysis and classification tasks.

Provides access to a wide range of AI models for tasks such as image generation, video creation, and audio processing through a unified platform. Developers can easily integrate these capabilities into their applications while benefiting from competitive pricing and robust support.

Provides various radio stations with different music genres and themes.

The Free Music API by TheAudioDB provides access to various music-related data, including artist details, album information, track listings, and music charts. It supports multiple query types, allowing users to search by artist or album name, retrieve top tracks, and manage user ratings.

FreqBlog provides a music-metadata API that returns detailed audio features (BPM, key, mood, energy, genre, ISRC and more) for tracks. You can look up tracks by artist+title, ISRC, or upload audio for analysis and also resolve up to 50 tracks in a single bulk request.

The Genrenator API generates random music genres and genre-related stories based on various fragments of attributes such as instruments and adjectives. It features endpoints for both genre and genre story requests, allowing developers to retrieve unique genre information programmatically.

ListenFree API provides a platform for fast, ad-free music streaming, allowing users to create smart playlists, enjoy collaborative listening rooms, and access video previews of songs. The API supports offline playback and prioritizes user privacy, making it a reliable choice for music enthusiasts.

Openwhyd is a free and open-source music curation service that allows users to create playlists of music tracks from various streaming platforms (YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, Deezer…) and to discover the music posted by other users.

Provides access to detailed information about characters, episodes, songs, and comics from the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This RESTful API allows users to search for data by various attributes, making it an essential tool for fans and developers alike.

Radio Basilisk provides daily information and entertainment to 100,000 listeners in the Basel region. This API shows the last played songs on Radio Basilisk.

API providing information about currently played music on Radio SRF 1 including song titles and artists.

Free JSON API providing access to verified Roblox music codes and decal IDs. It supports live working status, search capabilities, and genre filters without requiring an API key.

Create AI images, video clips, voice-overs, music and editable storyboard films

Classic Persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks

Full-text + semantic search across the Urantia Papers, with audio narration, entities, translations

Free JSON audio API offering 9,700+ CC0 public domain sound effects (WAV, MP3, OGG) with direct hotlinkable downloads, acoustics, waveform metrics, and zero API key requirements.