AllMusic AlternativesMusic Discovery Services and other similar apps like AllMusic

AllMusic is described as 'Provides comprehensive music info including reviews and biographies. Get recommendations for new music to listen to, stream or own' and is a Music Discovery service in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to AllMusic, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. The best AllMusic alternative is Last.fm, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to AllMusic are MusicBrainz, Discogs, Metacritic and Rate Your Music.

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  1. Last.fm icon
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    Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests.

    187 Last.fm alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • BSD
     
  2. MusicBrainz icon
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    MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use...

    17 MusicBrainz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. Discogs icon
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    Discogs is a crowdsourced music database and marketplace. Discover music, buy and sell music with collectors in the Marketplace in all physical formats.

    40 Discogs alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
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  4. Metacritic icon
     114 likes

    Metacritic's proprietary Metascore distills the opinions of the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single number.

    94 Metacritic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Rate Your Music icon
     45 likes

    Rate Your Music is a community-built music and film database where you can rate, review, catalog and discover new music and films as well as participate in contributing to the database itself.

    25 Rate Your Music alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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  6. ratehouse icon
     48 likes

    Ratings, reviews, discussions, recommendations, lists for all media genres: music, movies, tv shows, books, video games, and podcasts. Like IMDb or Goodreads, but with more media types. Join ratehouse to consolidate your entertainment and art interests.

    120 ratehouse alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Comments about ratehouse as an Alternative to AllMusic
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    has more kinds to track and rate, looks nicer and cleaner, able to add & edit things.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks ratehouse is a great AllMusic alternative.

    • ratehouse is Free and ProprietaryAllMusic is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. TasteDive icon
     67 likes

    TasteDive (formerly TasteKid) is a recommendation engine for music, movies, authors and books. Just type in your favorite bands, artists, movie titles, book titles or authors, separated by commas, and TasteDive will suggest other things that you may enjoy.

    70 TasteDive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. NeoDB icon
     5 likes

    NeoDB is an open-source software and global community platform since 2021. It helps users to manage and explore collections, reviews, and ratings for various cultural products, including books, movies, music, podcasts, games, and performances.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Maloja icon
     10 likes

    Simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics. No recommendations, no social network, no nonsense.

    173 Maloja alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. MusicSearch icon
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    An Android app for browsing songs, artists, and anything related to them using the data from MusicBrainz.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • MusicBrainz
     
  11. MusicHarbor icon
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    MusicHarbor is an app that helps you stay on top of new music releases, music videos, events, and news from all your favorite artists and record labels.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Music
    • Spotify
     
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