Music-intelligence APIs for labels, publishers and rights teams. Audio fingerprinting, AI-resolved royalties, and A&R embeddings — delivered as a platform you can build on.

Sub-second audio fingerprinting across 78M reference tracks. Detects derivatives — covers, sped-up edits, mashups — that classical fingerprinting misses.

AI-resolved splits, continuous reconciliation across PROs and 32 territories. Median 5.1% royalty recovery in pilot.

Sub-genre embedding workspace calibrated against 12 working A&R teams. 71% top-2% recall against actual signings.
Query 78 million tracks with a single API call. Get back structured match data, derivative classification, and rights-chain metadata — ready for your pipeline.
curl -X POST https://api.nomadrecords.net/v1/fingerprint \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "audio_url": "https://cdn.example.com/track.wav", "detectors": ["melodic", "harmonic", "lyric", "timbre"], "min_confidence": 0.85 }'
Structured JSON responses with confidence scores, derivative type, and full rights-chain traceability.
{
"match_id": "m_8f3a2b1c",
"confidence": 0.97,
"derivative_type": "sped_up_edit",
"original": {
"isrc": "GBDUW2400118",
"title": "Midnight Signal",
"artist": "The Nomads",
"rights_holder": "Nomad Publishing Ltd"
},
"detectors_agreed": ["melodic", "timbre"],
"latency_ms": 340
}
12,400-work catalogue. Listen + Rights recovered £187K in year one — 3.9% of stated revenue — from derivatives and mis-routed mechanicals nobody was tracking.
Read case study →NR specialist in DE/FR recovered €148K from unmatched works in continental Europe — 7.0% of catalogue revenue — using the Rights pipeline.
Read case study →Publishing company running 6,000 works achieved 4.5% recovery plus automated sync detection across PROs and MLC disputes.
Read case study →Manager running 24 artists replaced manual scouting with the Friday listening queue. The embedding surfaced 3 signings the team later closed.
Read case study →"We had no idea 6% of our catalogue revenue was leaking through unmatched derivatives. Nomad surfaced it in the first 60-day audit — and now it's a continuous pipeline."// Head of Rights, Independent label · UK · ~5,800 works
"The Friday listening queue changed how our A&R team works. It doesn't replace their ears — it gives them 15 candidates a week they wouldn't have found on their own."// A&R Director, Major-distributed indie · US · ~12,000 works
Send us a catalogue sample or try the API. We'll come back with three specific signals — derivative coverage, royalty matching gaps, audience patterns — before you commit to anything.