DiscoCat
Explore your music
iOS 18, macOS 15 (Sequoia), or visionOS 2 required
DiscoCat is for exploring, streaming, rating, and tracking musical artists and composers from the popular to the obscure.
Explore
Search for artists (bands, musicians, composers, etc.), record labels, and creative works
Shazam externally playing music to find the recording, release, and artist
Show full artist discography, not just the ones with streaming contracts
Artist details include a description and other relevant information, a comprehensive discography, associated groups (for individuals) or band members (for groups), creative works, related artists (including cover bands), related releases (including tribute albums), related record labels, and external links
Release details include a description and other relevant information, track listings, release versions, and external links
Show all release versions optionally grouped by format (such as vinyl, CD, etc.) or release country
Release-version details include a description and other relevant information, media descriptions with track listings, and external links
Detailed and zoomable release artwork and even physical media for some release versions
Track details include the associated release version, recording, and creative work
Recording details include the contributing musicians, engineers, producers, and other recording personnel
Recording details also include the creative work and external links
Work details include the creators such as the composer, lyricist, etc., all the recordings (grouped by artist), related works, and external links
Links to related external web sites such as fan pages, music services, lyrics sites, and many other databases
Stream
Apple Music subscribers may stream any artist, release, or track that is found in Apple’s streaming catalogs without leaving the app
For Spotify, if the artist, release, or track is found in Spotify’s streaming catalogs, a prominent Spotify link will be shown, which will open it in the official Spotify app (if installed) or the Spotify website
Rate and Track
Rate or simply bookmark any artist, release, release-version, track, recording, work, or record-label to save it to your collection¹
Group your saved artists by genre or country or simply show all sorted by rating
Group your saved tracks by album or artist or simply show all sorted by rating
Group your saved releases by artist or genre or type or simply show all sorted by rating
Group your saved release versions by artist or country or format or simply show all sorted by rating
Several different rating schemes are supported such as 3, 4, or 5 star, out-of-ten, like/dislike, favorite, etc.
Suggested Artists: discover many other artists that share the same genres as your favorite artists
Recent Releases: keep up-to-date with the latest releases from your favorite artists
¹ Saving more than 10 of any item type (artist, release, etc.) requires an active subscription to the full version
- Most of the textual data comes from MusicBrainz
- Most of the imagery for artists and releases and some of the textual data comes from TheAudioDB
- The release-version artwork comes from the Cover Art Archive
- Some textual data and fallback imagery for artists and record labels comes from Discogs
- Some fallback artist imagery comes from Wikimedia Commons
- Artwork on the now-playing bar and sheet during Apple Music streaming comes from Apple
- Unlimited bookmarking and rating of as many artists, releases, release-versions, tracks, recordings, record labels, and creative works as you want
- No app-imposed rate limits
- New features, through support of future development
- One subscription good across all platforms
Unfortunately, probably not. As it stands now, the developer license for the Spotify SDK for commercial apps is much too restrictive, requiring at least a quarter of a million active monthly users, among other things. Even if DiscoCat used the Spotify SDK, the “in-app” streaming functionality leads to an awkward user experience since it sometimes requires a momentary switch to the Spotify app and back to authenticate prior to playing.
Possibly. We will be looking into the APIs of other streaming services (other than Spotify) to see if they offer the streaming functionally that we need. For those that do not, we are planning to move their external links up to the streaming section for easier access (like we do currently for Spotify).
That is the dream. If enough of you support us with a subscription, we may be able to hire more developers! 😘
Feature Requests, Bug Reports, & Roadmap
If you have any feature suggestions or bugs to report or simply want to read and even vote on the features and bugs submitted by others, you can access our Features & Bugs page directly from the About screen in the iOS app or the Help menu in the macOS app. You can also view our product roadmap from there as well. We prefer not to show the links here because we want to insure there is only one vote per user.
Contact Us
If you have any other questions or just want to suggest a feature or report a bug the old fashioned way, contact us by tapping on the envelope icon below.
Privacy
Our privacy policy is available here. You can also access the privacy policy from the About screen in the app itself.
EULA
Our EULA is available here. You can also access the EULA from the About screen in the app itself.
