DiscoCat
Explore your music
iOS 18, macOS 15 (Sequoia), or visionOS 2 required
DiscoCat is for discovering, streaming, rating, and tracking musical artists and composers from the popular to the obscure.
Discover and Explore
Search for artists (bands, musicians, composers, etc.), record labels, and creative works in external catalogs
Shazam playing music to find the recording, release, and artist
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
Tap on a genre or tag to find other artists that share the same ones
View comprehensive artist discography, not just the ones with streaming contracts
Learn about all the current and former members of a band or find other bands an individual artist was/is in
List all the creative works of an individual songwriter, composer, lyricist, etc.
Find related artists such as cover bands, related releases such as tribute albums, and related record labels
List all tracks for a given release or release version and get details for each track including related recording and work
List all release versions optionally grouped by format (such as vinyl, CD, etc.) or release country
View detailed release album art and sometimes even images of physical media such as records, jackets, liner notes, etc.
Tap once on artwork to enter zoom then double-tap to toggle between zoom modes
See all the musicians, engineers, producers, and other recording personnel that contributed to a recording
Find the creative work associated with a track or recording and from there, find other recordings from other artists who also covered it
If you can’t find what you are looking for in the item details, most item types also include an extensive list of external links to related sites such as fan pages, music services, lyrics sites, etc.
Stream
Apple Music subscribers may stream any artist, release, or track that is found in Apple’s streaming catalog without leaving the app
Users without Apple Music subscriptions will still be provided with external links if it is found in Apple Music
Rate and Track
Rate or simply bookmark any artist, release, release-version, track, recording, work, or record-label to save it to your collection¹
Your collection is stored on iCloud so it can be accessed on all platforms
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
Search your saved items in any category
Several different rating schemes are supported such as 3, 4, or 5 star, out-of-ten, like/dislike, favorite, etc.
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
- Occasionally, fallback data for artists listed by genres or tags comes from last.fm
- 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
- 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.
