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Audio & Music

AE-170.20 Level 2 API Evangelist extension API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA 23 providers 89 API surfaces 8 rated strong or better

Music, podcasts and audio.

Audio & Music (AE-170.20) is a level-2 business capability under Media, Creator & Social in the API Evangelist extension model. The catalog holds 89 API surface(s) from 23 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 8 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.

Where this capability definition comes from. This capability is part of the API Evangelist extension to the business-capability model, written by API Evangelist and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. API Evangelist capability extension — https://apievangelist.com Audience: consumerb2b It extends, and never modifies, Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet (CC BY 4.0). · Extension provenance and licence

Sub-capabilities

Music Streaming & Catalog AE-170.20.10API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumer

Music catalogs and playback.

no catalog coverage

Podcast Hosting AE-170.20.20API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Hosting and distributing podcasts.

no catalog coverage

Audiobooks AE-170.20.30API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumer

Spoken-word books.

no catalog coverage

Podcast Directories & Search AE-170.20.40API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Searching and charting podcast feeds across open and platform directories (Apple iTunes Search, Podcast Index, fyyd) from a podcast player. Hosting is Podcast Hosting.

no catalog coverage

Song Lyrics & Synced Lyrics AE-170.20.50API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Lyrics lookup and LRC time-synced lyrics for a track (LRCLIB, Musixmatch, Genius, ChartLyrics, Lyrist, Tekstowo, LRCMux).

no catalog coverage

Audio Fingerprinting & Music Recognition AE-170.20.60API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Identifying a recording from its audio and extracting acoustic features (AcoustID/Chromaprint, AcousticBrainz).

no catalog coverage

Providers that reach this capability

Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
beehiivPodcasts1 API75.6
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AuphonicProductionsSimple API2 APIs62.4AutoContent APIPodcast1 API60.8RockbotMusic1 API60.8Blubrry APIEpisodeMedia2 APIs56.4Last.fmAlbumArtistChartGeo6 APIs55.7TIDALArtworksCreditsDynamic ModulesGenres26 APIs54.8BudgetPixelStock Music1 API54.7
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Listen NotesPlaylist APIPodcaster API2 APIs54.0StreamElementssongrequests1 API49.5SpotifyAlbumsArtistsAudiobooksEpisodes9 APIs49.4ArtlistAlbumArtistSong3 APIs48.4GracenoteAlbumEditionsAlbumMastersArtists3 APIs48.4Epidemic SoundBrowse & searchSound EffectsTracks3 APIs42.5KajabiPodcasts1 API42.1TransistorEpisodesShows2 APIs41.0ShazamAlbumsArtistsChartsTracks4 APIs39.7
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
SoundstripePrivate PlaylistsSongsSound Effects3 APIs35.9PodbeanEpisodePodcast2 APIs32.2ChartmetricAlbumArtistCityCountry8 APIs28.7FreepikMusic1 API28.2SoundchartsAlbumArtistChartPlaylist6 APIs28.2MixerBoxGpt1 API27.8
This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature. This page shows which providers and tags reach Audio & Music. The underlying tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps. Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in the source contract are published at all.

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