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MusicSmart finds liner notes and credits for your albums, songs, and artists. Gain insights into the creative process behind your favorite music, discover the writers, producers, engineers, and other collaborators involved in the production, and more.
MusicSmart aggregates music knowledge from various sources into a powerful and easy-to-use app. With features such as Smart Sections and Roles/Instruments Insights, you can gain a deeper understanding of the music creation process and the responsibilities of each role.
Navigate the catalog from within the main app or share music from Apple Music or Spotify to read the details about any song. Shazam is also available, so you can access liner notes and learn more about songs playing around you.
Here are some of the credits you can find with MusicSmart:
• Description: Information about the recording process, the backstory behind the song, artists, etc.
• Songwriting and Composition: Composer, Arranger, Producer, and more.
• Performance and Recording: Vocals, Performer, Programmer, Engineers, Editor, and more.
• Marketing and Distribution: A&R, Publishers, Distributors, and more.
• Business: Labels, Copyright, and more.
• Visuals: Director, Cinematographer, Designer, Visualizer, and more.
• Locations: Recorded At, Mixed At, Mastered At, and more.
• Instruments: Drums, Shakers, Strings, Guitars, Keyboards, and more.
Download MusicSmart today for free to unlock a wealth of knowledge about your favorite music, all in one convenient location!
Note: No Apple Music or Spotify subscription is required to use MusicSmart. MusicSmart relies on multiple online sources and databases to find liner notes and credits. The number of details available may vary for each song.
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MusicSmart Premium
$12.99
MusicSmart Premium (Lifetime)
$24.99
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31 ratings
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A good idea, but only for very mainstream tastes
This app isn’t bad, it’s just not very useful. If your musical tastes run even slightly outside of the narrow, current mainstream you are likely to be met with a lot of “there’s no data about this recording” messages.
In short, the app over-promises and under-delivers, and blaming the lack of online data to draw from seems a bit disingenuous.
Best way to view credits in the streaming era
Been looking for something like this forever
Disappointing
The credits/liner notes built into the TIDAL is way better than this - and free. I’ve compared a number of albums that had extensive info on Tidal and minimal info on this app. Hopefully it improves…
Great app
Stand alone app is really good but best part is how it integrates with Apple Music
Good Concept - Needs more Info
Only seems to work on newer albums and/or big name artists.
What about jazz credits?
If you are a jazz fan and want to know what musicians are playing on each track there isn’t much here. Get yourself the free Allmusic app and don’t bother with this one
Notes about nothing
If iTunes never thought to offer artists the ability to publish liner notes—or if artists tend not to publish notes to begin with—then an app like this hasn’t much to work with.
So far, I have yet to see this app compile notes of much value—usually just the artist and label name, issue date and a link to Wikipedia.
I collect jazz fusion music, it would be great to know each of the musicians who play on a song or album, or where the music was recorded, who produced it, or any background stories.
Ultimately I blame Apple for the lack of foresight.
If not Apple, then the music industry should consider building a central resource to house notes. At least an app like this could have something to work with.
Thank you Thank you Thank you
I’ve been begging Apple Music to add credits for years. This app provides that and more. Works as advertised and makes the process easy. Thank you a million times over.
Features
Love the concept, but not sure about the interface. Where is the search feature? How to sort by artist?
Update - the developer is very responsive and has started implementing new features.
Issue with playlists
Nice app, but I have the following issue when I try to use MusicSmart with playlists: "The operation couldn't be completed (View_details_with_-MusicSmart.NetworkError error 2.).