Indye

Music & Record Labels

Discover if your favorite music is truly independent.

Indye helps you identify whether songs are released by independent labels or owned by the "Big Three" major record labels (Sony, Universal, Warner).

Support indie artists by knowing where your music comes from.

HOW IT WORKS

• Search any song in the Apple Music catalog.
• Indye cross-references record labels with the major label groups.
• Instantly see if it's Independent or Major label music.
• Make informed choices about the music you support.

FEATURES

• Smart Search Search millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog by title or artist. See different versions for the same song.
• Label Intelligence Powered by real-time Wikipedia data to identify labels owned by Sony, Universal, and Warner. Manually modified for accuracy.
• Mini Player Preview 30-second clips of any track without leaving the app.
• Playlist Scanner Scan entire Music playlists at once to see which tracks are indie.
• History Save your searches so you can revisit them anytime. Export history data on device or import a new history database.
• Shazam Search Turn on Shazam in Indye and automatically search the song playing around you. The audio goes directly to Shazam engine and is not parsed or saved by Indye.
• Shortcuts & Siri Add a check shortcut in phone home screen or tell Siri "Indie check" to give you check result for the song playing in Apple Music.
• Open in Other Music App Open the song from Indye in Apple Music, YouTube / YouTube Music, Spotify.
• Share Extension Share any song from YouTube Music, Apple Music, Spotify or SoundCloud to Indye, automatically checks and saves to History.

PRIVACY FIRST

• Only accesses the Apple Music catalog - never your personal library.
• No login, no tracking, no ads, no private data collection.

Perfect for DJs, dancers, producers, content creators or social media managers.

You can report bugs by emailing the developer inside Indye. Will be considered when fixing bugs for the new version.

Always make sure to fetch the Wikipedia endpoint after updating to the new version...or from time to time. Indye uses manual refresh to not spam Wikipedia servers.