Connected car and consumer electronics
For Automotive & Consumer ElectronicsTurnkey Music Metadata Catalog

Master your music integration

One connection for music data, licensing, support, and continuous updates. You build the experience; we plug in the music.

Seamlessly integrates with all embedded software

One metadata layer that scales from head units to home devices.

Voice Assistants & Conversational AI

Structured, multilingual metadata that lets your AI actually talk music with your users.

Smart TV & Home Audio

Enriched now-playing, artist pages, and editorial browsing for connected home devices.

Software-Defined Vehicles

A turnkey music metadata catalog for OEMs going software-centric - no pre-existing music directory required.

Connected Devices

Compact, identifier-rich catalogs optimized for resource-constrained connected products.

Your interface to the music industry

The infrastructure to connect to the music datasets you need - technical data, licensing and support included - powering your in-car AI, voice search, and UX.

Basic – Your Reference Catalog

A complete international and local music metadata reference system — we act as your metadata catalog, continuously updated.

External IDs & DSP Mapping

Plug-and-play connectivity to every major DSP for a frictionless link between your platform and the music world.

Licensed

Licensed Artist Images & Artwork

Multi-format, high-quality visuals under a single license - no separate label deals, with full claims support.

Fingerprinting

High-performance audio recognition powered by Simbals, accessible through an API with high-level SLAs and backed by rich metadata.

Licensed

Time-Synced Lyrics

LyricFind-powered, multilingual, time-synchronized lyrics for karaoke-like in-car experiences.

Licensed

Original Multilingual Biographies

Original biographies, curated by our music copywriters, spanning broad and dynamic coverage.

Licensed

Popularity & Charts

Global and local popularity signals calculated from more than 500 charts worldwide. Stay relevant in every territory.

Licensed

Recommendations & Audio Descriptors

Recommendations based on high-quality metadata and audio descriptors (mood and tempo) — no audio analysis needed.

Credits & Contributors

Performer, composer, and producer data — perfect training material for conversational AI.

Engineering support team for music data integration

Engineering support behind the SLA

Behind our API and our SLAs, a dedicated team of engineers supports your music data integration projects. They support you through every phase of integrating our data - from maintenance to new integration projects.

  • Integration support from day one to production
  • Ongoing maintenance and data quality follow-up
  • Direct access to music data specialists
  • SLA-backed response times for critical issues
  • Help with mapping, formats, and DSP connectivity
  • Tailored guidance for automotive and CE constraints

Eliminate legal risk with bullet-proof licensing

We sublicense content through label agreements with the majors and key rights holders, covering images, lyrics, biographies and more. Everything sits under a single contract, delivered via API and data feeds. We also provide legal support: if a claim arises, we help you trace the correct attribution and bring the evidence needed for clearance.

In-car infotainment UI with rich music metadata

Use Cases

How automotive OEMs and CE makers use Music Story to differentiate their music experience.

Smart Speakers

Enhance your vocal assistant with richer metadata and better disambiguation for deeper, more engaging music conversations.

Smart TVs

Over-the-top browsing that integrates music navigation into the at-home experience.

Smart Headphones

Enhance music search with richer metadata and seamless access across DSPs.

FAQ

No. Most OEMs and CE makers we work with use Music Story as their metadata catalog. We bundle the data, licensing, and support layers.

Yes. Editorial content, images, artwork and lyrics are licensed for use within your automotive or CE product — in-app display, search, voice assistants, and infotainment surfaces. They are not licensed for advertising, merchandise, redistribution or out-of-home displays outside the product. We provide claim management support; specific uses require explicit approval.

Through our external IDs and DSP mappings (Apple, Spotify, Line Music, and more), with a plug-and-play connectivity layer, country by country.

Yes. Our structured, multilingual catalog, credits, biographies, charts, and audio descriptors are designed as training and runtime material for music-aware AI assistants.

Our aliases, phonetic variants, stable identifiers, and popularity signals are built for accurate voice disambiguation across multiple languages.

Yes. We provide audio fingerprinting for accurate track recognition and linking, alongside our identifier layer and DSP mappings.

Worldwide, with particularly strong editorial depth across Europe, North America, Latin America and Northeast Asia, plus country-specific charts localized popularity signals.

Continuously. New releases, credits, images and editorial updates are ingested daily.

Talk to our team

Tell us about your product, target devices, and integration constraints — we'll prepare a tailored demo and delivery plan.

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