Music Recognition API
AHA Music is built on ACRCloud — the world-leading audio recognition platform. The same APIs that power our song finder are available for you to build with.
APIs Powering AHA Music
Three ACRCloud recognition engines work together under the hood of AHA Music. All three are documented in the same ACRCloud developer portal.
Music Recognition API
Identify any song playing in the background in seconds. Our music recognition is powered by ACRCloud's audio fingerprinting engine — the same technology behind Shazam-like experiences. Submit an audio sample and get back the song title, artist, album, release date, and streaming links.
Used in AHA Music
Humming Recognition API
Find a song just by humming, whistling, or singing a melody — no lyrics needed. ACRCloud's humming recognition uses AI melody matching to identify tracks from your vocal input, even when off-key or incomplete.
Used in AHA Music
AI Music Detector API
Detect whether a track contains AI-generated music or human-performed audio. This classifier analyses spectral and temporal audio patterns to distinguish machine-generated content from real recordings — useful for copyright, streaming, and content moderation workflows.
Used in AHA Music
How to Get Started
Integrate ACRCloud into your app in four steps
Create an ACRCloud account
Sign up at acrcloud.com and create a new project to get your API access key and secret.
Choose your recognition type
Select Audio Fingerprint for music recognition, Humming for melody matching, or the AI Detection endpoint for AI-generated audio analysis.
Send audio samples
Submit a short audio clip (10-15 seconds) as a multipart POST request. ACRCloud processes it and returns structured JSON results.
Parse the response
The JSON response includes track metadata, confidence scores, timestamps, and deep links to major streaming platforms.
Why ACRCloud?
Over 100 million tracks fingerprinted across all major genres, languages, and regions.
Sub-second identification latency with industry-leading match accuracy even in noisy environments.
Fingerprint, humming, and AI-generated content detection — all from one API provider.
Returns Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Deezer IDs alongside title, artist, album, and timestamp data.
Want to see the API in action?
AHA Music uses these APIs in production — try it free, no sign-up required.