MusicSearch
An Android app for browsing songs, artists, and anything related to them using MusicBrainz’s API.
Multiplatform distributions are heavily WIP. Only the Android app is considered stable.
Releases
Or you can you can download its APK from the top of all GitHub Releases.
Desktop releases are packaged by Conveyor and available from this download page.
Features
- Search MusicBrainz’s massive database for any information related to your favorite artist or song
- Offline-first; all data is cached on device after loading each page/tab
- Almost every tab allows you to filter its content instantaneously
- Aliases will be used when filtering to help find things in other languages
- See every page you’ve visited in the history screen, and quickly get back to them
- Save anything to a collection
- Login using your MusicBrainz account to add to your existing collections
- Listening on Spotify? Enable Device Broadcast Status to search the artist or song from the app
- Have a Pixel phone? Enable notification listener to record Now Playing history
- Customize the app’s appearance with: Light/Dark theme, Material theme based on your wallpaper, or pick a custom color
- An artist’s discography is incomplete? Aliases missing? Other data missing? Contribute it to MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/
See all features here.
This is a music database/discovery app, not a music player. There are external links to various streaming platforms which will open the album/song in their app if it’s installed.
Screenshots
| Search artist | Artist details | Release groups by artist | Release groups by artist (filtered) |
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| Release details | Release tracks | All collections | Local database |
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Development
See here for notes on setting up the project, and some development processes.