SoundExchange

SoundExchange is a non‑profit collective rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance royalties on behalf of sound recording owners and performers. It ensures that artists, record labels, and rights holders receive fair compensation when their music is streamed, broadcast, or otherwise publicly performed across digital platforms. By operating a transparent and efficient royalty distribution system, SoundExchange supports the sustainability of the music ecosystem and promotes the value of creative works in the modern digital landscape.

SoundExchange is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Non-Profit, Royalties, Music, and Digital.

SoundExchange’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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15.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
0 APIs
CompanyNon-ProfitRoyaltiesMusicDigitalRights

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 15.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Soundexchange Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Newsroom
Newsroom
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: soundexchange
name: SoundExchange
image: https://www.soundexchange.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/generic-SX.jpg
description: SoundExchange is a non‑profit collective rights organization that collects and distributes digital performance
  royalties on behalf of sound recording owners and performers. It ensures that artists, record labels, and rights holders
  receive fair compensation when their music is streamed, broadcast, or otherwise publicly performed across digital platforms.
  By operating a transparent and efficient royalty distribution system, SoundExchange supports the sustainability of the music
  ecosystem and promotes the value of creative works in the modern digital landscape.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/soundexchange/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:music
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-09-22 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-22'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Non-Profit
- Royalties
- Music
- Digital
- Rights
tags_raw:
- Company
- Nonprofit
- Royalties
- Music
- Digital
- Rights
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.soundexchange.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/soundexchange-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/soundexchange-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/soundexchange-vendors.yml
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/news/soundexchange-named-one-of-fast-companys-worlds-most-innovative-companies-for-2023/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/soundexchange-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/who-we-are/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/register/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/newsletter/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.soundexchange.com/privacy-policy/
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: SoundExchange provides no public developer program or API documentation; attempts to fetch OpenAPI spec returned
    403 and API reference page returned 404.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.soundexchange.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.soundexchange.com/api
    status: 404
  checked: 2026-09-22
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local

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